A bus full of local history enthusiasts was trundling down Cottage Grove Avenue a bit north of Glenwood about 6 years ago when one of the passengers asked the driver to pull in at a forest preserve ...
A small, wooden keepsake box adorned with carvings and the inscription, “Gefangenschaft Amerika 1944,” was donated in late January to the Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office for inclusion in the Fort ...
DUMFRIES, Scotland (Reuters) - When Heinz Roestel was separated from his younger sister Edith aged six, he little thought it would be nearly 80 years before he saw her again. Nor did the German ...
Not much is left of a once-thriving, tidy little encampment tucked inside a Cook County forest preserve in Des Plaines. Even memories barely exist anymore. Just tales told second or third hand at this ...
The Beaber family of New Philadelphia owns a portrait of their mother that their father, Richard, paid a German POW during World War II to paint. The family still owns the portrait, painted on a piece ...
A German Luftwaffe pilot and a Mississippi Delta farmer’s wife made a run for it in January 1946, eight months after World War II ended in Europe. Their brief escape captured headlines across the ...
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