Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945). Germany signed the Third Geneva...
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In World War II, Nazi Germany established brothels in the concentration camps (Lagerbordell or Freudenabteilungen "Joy Divisions") to increase productivity...
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were a number of Axis prisoner-of-war camps in Italy during World War II. The initials "P.G." denote Prigione di Guerra (Prison of War), often interchanged...
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In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425...
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known prisoner-of-war camps across Canada during World War II, although this number also includes internment camps that held Canadians of German and Japanese...
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World War I, German prisoner-of-war camps were run by the 25 Army Corps Districts into which Germany was divided. Around 2.4 million men were World War...
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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 includes...
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power in time of war. There are significant differences among POW camps, internment camps, and military prisons. Purpose-built prisoner-of-war camps appeared...
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000 prisoners who had escaped from camps in Germany. France portal Belgian prisoners of war in World War II German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war...
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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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of prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union during World War II. The Soviet Union had not signed the Geneva convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners...
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History Notes of Japanese soldier in a USSR prison camp after World War II German prisoners of war in Allied hands (World War II) ICRC World War II U.S. POW...
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were held in prisoner-of-war camps during World War I. All nations pledged to follow the Hague Conventions on fair treatment of prisoners of war, and the...
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situation of World War I prisoners of war in Germany is an aspect of the conflict little covered by historical research. However, the number of soldiers...
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of the German military were interned as prisoners of war in the United States during World War I and World War II. In all, 425,000 German prisoners lived...
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million German prisoners of war were captured by the Soviet Union during World War II, most of them during the great advances of the Red Army in the last...
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includes prisoner-of-war camps during World War II, both allied and axis: List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Australia List of World War II prisoner-of-war...
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German prisoners of war in Azerbaijan (German: Deutsche Kriegsgefangene in Aserbaidschan) are former servicemen of Nazi Germany captured by Soviet troops...
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end of World War II in Asia in August 1945. Also, Soviet troops seized and imprisoned more than half a million Japanese troops and civilians in China...
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This is a list of prisoner of war camps in Australia during World War II. During World War II many enemy aliens were interned in Australia under the National...
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The German camps in occupied Poland during World War II were built by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945 throughout the territory of the Polish Republic...
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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 in which...
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During World War II, Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) held by Nazi Germany and primarily in the custody of the German Army were starved and subjected to...
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real or perceived Nazi collaborators. Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, many of which were used as labour camps, also had high death rates. The International...
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The use of slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany (German: Zwangsarbeit) and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented...
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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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The Utah prisoner of war massacre (headlined by Time as Midnight Massacre) took place after the end of World War II in Europe at midnight on July 8, 1945...
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German World War II military casualties are divergent. The wartime military casualty figures compiled by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (the German High...
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1945, and around 2,000 died in German camps during the course of the war. Belgian involvement in World War II began when German forces invaded Belgium, which...
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Twenty-four known prisoner-of-war camps existed across Canada during the First World War. The ethnic groups arrested and detained in internment camps were Austro-Hungarians...
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