Eric Schwab documentedc conditions in the camps such as this A prisoner at Buchenwald dying of dysentery - Copyright AFP/File Eric Schwab Eric Schwab documentedc ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – The images are haunting: naked and emaciated children at Auschwitz standing shoulder-to-shoulder, adult prisoners in striped garb posing for police-style mug shots. One of ...

During World War II, the United States set up hundreds of prisoner of war camps in the U.S., including nearly 40 in Wisconsin. But it wasn't till nearly the end of the war that POWs were sent to the ...

The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 months. But by the time the open-air camp shut down ...

Bien Hoa, Vietnam, April 1968: Viet Cong, in their spare time, read “Free World” magazines. One can be seen reading an article on Dak To. The Bien Hoa prisoner of war camp, run by the Army of the ...

Piles of skeletal bodies, the doors to a crematorium, emaciated faces -- an AFP photographer documents the full horror of the Nazi extermination camps in the spring of 1945, as he searches for his ...