Among them was the torture and killing of 11 African-American POWs by the notorious Waffen-SS. After the war, no charges were ever brought against anyone for the murder of the 11 men. (02:35 ...

However, the real villains were undoubtedly those prisoners of war who went the whole hog and decided to join the enemy by ...

On 8 May 1945, the POWs were ordered to assemble on the camp ... “We were told that the Waffen-SS would have to be imprisoned for 20 years.” Another German wrote in his diary: “I am ...

Military scientists have identified the remains of an Illinois soldier who died during World War II at a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines. The remains of Army Pfc. Harry Jerele of ...

Hanning joined the Hitler youth in 1935 and the Waffen SS, the armed wing of the SS ... guards in Hanning’s company had to monitor ­arriving prisoners as they were chosen to work or be sent ...

It includes senior officers from the Waffen SS, including General Maximilian von Herff ... Britain and the US turned down requests by the Soviet Union to have the prisoners repatriated on the grounds ...

"Our honor means loyalty" - with this slogan the soldiers of the Waffen-SS go to war in 1939. They think of themselves as more than just soldiers. They are warriors, self-proclaimed elite ...

In honoring a book depicting Ukrainian volunteers in the Waffen SS as heroes and patriots, the group reveals historical ignorance—or indifference to antisemitism. Ad Policy Nazi Minister of the ...

RIGA, March 11. /TASS/. Events on Legionnaire Day, Latvia’s unofficial day of remembrance of the Latvian Waffen SS divisions, may be canceled over coronavirus fears, local Neatkariga Rita Avize ...

Initially, plans centred on the illegality of starting unprovoked wars and the known war crimes – a Waffen SS Division, for instance, had machine-gunned US POWs during the Battle of the Bulge.

Most doctors would never see such cases in their entire lives." On a typical day the prisoners received less than 300 calories of this rice porridge. Many supplemented their diets with insects ...