IT’S the sheer scale of the mind-numbing inhumanity that hits you with the force of a sledgehammer. A seemingly endless pile of 18,000 worn-down shoes, taken from victims of the nearby gas chambers, ...

During World War II, there were labor shortages on American farms. Because of this, American farmers had to turn to prisoners ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...

From 1943 through 1946, more than 3,400 prisoners (including 15 Nazi generals) were processed at Fort Hunt, according to ...

POW camps, a previously unheard-of concept, also became synonymous with misery. In the Civil War, the most notorious camp was near Andersonville, Ga., where an estimated 30 percent of the 32,000 ...

With new reports of North Korean troops captured as POWs in Ukraine, as resident Zelensky puts it, there is now "irrefutable evidence" that North Korea has been involved in Russia's war against ...

Vladimir Putin's Russian troops are being accused of a new war crime, as a video has emerged showing an executioner calling on his comrades to film as at least six Ukrainian POWs are cold ...

“Not many people still remember that there were prisoners of war in Japan,” she said. “I wanted people to know how my grandfather, who was 29 then, acted with hundreds of POWs amid the ...

A Swampscott man who hid the fact for 25 years that he oversaw prison camps and persecuted Serb prisoners during the Bosnian War was sentenced to prison, United States Attorney Leah Foley’s ...

This is the sickening moment Russian soldier's line up to execute at least six Ukrainian prisoners of war - as they boast ... me two machine guns”. The POWs are seen lying face down on the ...