A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured as prisoners of war by a belligerent power...
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abuse, of the estimated one thousand prisoners who passed through during the war, only six prisoners died while incarcerated at the Ōfuna Camp. The remaining...
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Featherston prisoner of war camp was a camp for captured Japanese soldiers during World War II at Featherston, New Zealand, notorious for a 1943 incident...
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For lists of German prisoner-of-war camps, see: German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II This article...
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The Bandō POW camp (板東俘虜収容所, Bandō Furyoshūyōsho) was a prisoner-of-war camp during World War I in the western suburbs of what is now Naruto, Tokushima...
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This is an incomplete list of Prisoner of War (POW) Camps located in the United Kingdom during World War II. German POWs in England were graded as follows:...
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A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage...
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around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945). Germany signed the Third Geneva Convention of 1929, which...
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end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly...
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of Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps during World War II. Some of these camps were for prisoners of...
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