Elmira in New York was once a Union Army barracks transformed into a prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate soldiers. It earned the nickname "Hellmira" among the inmates due to the harsh living ...

A Union Army barracks converted into a prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate soldiers, Elmira in New York eventually housed the largest number of rebels captured during the conflict. It was soon ...

Trautmann's story stands out as one of the most unusual, having been captured as a Nazi in Germany and kept in a Lancashire prisoner of war camp before later turning his life around to become the ...

A former WW2 prisoner-of-war camp which once held senior Nazis has been transformed - into a thriving community hub. Cultybraggan Camp located outside the town of Comrie in Scotland served as a ...

The Confederate Civil War prisoner camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was an utter nightmare for the many soldiers held within. It was dangerously overcrowded, rife with disease, and food and medical ...

from the peninsula to a prisoner-of-war camp that resulted in thousands of deaths along the way, while there were several thousand more losses in the camps until American and Filipino forces ...

GRAZING cattle are the only inmates at the site of a Second World War prison camp at Knuzden, marked only by the decaying remains of bunkers and huts. But soon the field and the little known ...

Sussex historian David Rowland wants to find out more about prisoner of war camps in the county during the Second World War. This picture shows German prisoners in Lower Bevendean digging trenches ...

Often referred to as Dorchester’s Best-kept Secret, the First World War POW camp set up on its outskirts ... The comfort of the prisoners was paramount, their welfare considered worthy of ...

John Hipkin was taken to Marlag und Milag Nord, a prisoner of war camp near the German sea port of Bremen Credit: The National Archives Britain’s youngest Second World War prisoner of war ...

and his experience of being captured and taken to a prisoner of war camp. Now 97, he has been telling his experience as part of the BBC's We Were There project. Watch his story. Video by Graham ...

Military scientists have officially identified the remains of Harry Jerele of west suburban Berkeley, who died of pneumonia at age 26 in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines.