
They were told their officers would die beside them. They were promised that the Imperial Army never abandons its own. But when British soldiers found…

The photograph trembled in her hands, not from Pauly, though. At 98 years old, Kiko Matsumoto had earned the right to shaky fingers. No, this…

They were told liberation meant freedom. But when American soldiers opened the gates of the women’s prison camp outside Munich in May 1945, one woman…

They were told Americans would take their clothes, not because they needed them, not because of disease or dirt or lice, but because it was…

German POW Women Were Ordered to Open Their Mouths —U.S. Dentists Found 47 Had Never Seen Toothbrush They were told to open their mouths. It…

The 22nd of October, 1944. Cold wind over Fort Douglas, Utah. A group of German women stepped off the trucks, their boots still heavy with…

July 4th, 1945. Camp Swift, Texas. The sun burns down on barbed wire and dry dust as smoke from long rows of grills drifts over…

April 1945, a muddy prison camp near Kublans, Germany. 34 German women sat on wooden benches. Their uniforms were torn. Their faces were hollow. They…

November 1944, Camp Aliceville, Alabama. The German nurse picked up the jar with shaking hands, not from fear, from confusion. Helga Brandt had survived RML’s…

March 23rd, 1945. Dock 7, Southampton Port, England. The mist rolled thick off the English Channel at 0447 a.m., wrapping around the cargo cranes like…





