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Life After Captivity: What's Next for Bowe Bergdahl

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the 28-year-old U.S. Army solider held as a prisoner of war by the Taliban for the last five years, is in a U.S. military hospital in Germany, where he's said to be in "stable...

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Who Are the Taliban Fighters Released from Guantánamo Bay?

President Obama authorized the release of five Guantánamo Bay detainees over the weekend in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier and prisoner of war held in eastern Afghanistan for...

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Criticism Mounts Against Freed POW Sergeant Bergdahl

In the few short days since Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was released from captivity in Afghanistan, criticism has begun to mount, both in Washington and within military ranks, over the prisoner...

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Sgt. Bergdahl: A Lightning Rod for America's Afghan Legacy

The release of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has demonstrated that many lawmakers in Washington, and perhaps others, are quick to judge whether or not the POW deserved to be freed.On Wednesday it was...

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Nazi Summer Camp

Reporter Karen Duffin and her father were talking one day when, just as an aside, he mentioned the Nazi prisoners of war that worked on his Idaho farm when he was a kid. Karen was shocked ... and then...

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How a Hiroshima survivor helped remember 12 U.S. POWs killed by bomb

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: And now a different look at the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing and a story rarely told.John Yang has that.JOHN YANG: Among the thousands killed at...

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Complicating Good vs. Bad in "Land of Mine"

Martin Zandvliet joins us to discuss his new Oscar-nominated film, "Land of Mine," which he wrote and directed. In the days soon after Nazi Germany's surrender in 1945, German POWs (many just young...

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