Fort Riley announced that the German and Italian Remembrance Ceremony, featuring remarks from current German and Italian military representatives and the placing of commemorative wreaths. is scheduled Thursday at the Fort Riley Post Cemetery, 193 Huebner Road. It begins at 10 a.m.
There will be a delegation of German and Italian military members from Fort Leavenworth .This annual ceremony remembers the 62 German and 11 Italian prisoners of war from World War II who are buried at Fort Riley.
In 1943, the War Department established Fort Riley as one of 600 locations across the United States selected t house prisoners of war. Approximately 4,500 POWs were held at Fort Riley during World War II.