Hately-Broad, Barbara (eds.). Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace: Captivity, Homecoming, and Memory in World War II. New York: Berg. pp. 34–58. Johnston...

Prisoners of war during World War II faced vastly different fates depending on the theater of conflict, their captors, and the conventions adhered to...

Belgian prisoners of war in World War II German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war Liberation of France Prisoners of war in World War II Among the...

operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945). The most common types of camps were Oflags ("Officer...

earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of war in custody for a range of legitimate and illegitimate...

World War II saw the largest scale of war crimes and crimes against humanity ever committed in an armed conflict, mostly against civilians and specific...

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers...

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...

During World War II, Belgian prisoners of war were principally Belgian soldiers captured by the Germans during and shortly after the Battle of Belgium in May...

became prisoners; most of them surrendered to Russians. All nations pledged to follow the Hague Conventions on fair treatment of prisoners of war, and the...

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...

This is a timeline of declarations of war during World War II. A declaration of war is a formal act by which one nation goes to war against another. The...

prisoners of war in World War II were soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces captured by Germany and the Soviet Union during and after their invasion of...

Almost every country in the world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but only a relative few nations remained neutral to...

During World War II, the Soviet Union committed various atrocities against prisoners of war (POWs). These actions were carried out by the People's Commissariat...

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about...

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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...

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...

The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat during World War II, taking place from September 1939 to May 1945. The...

aftermath of World War II saw the rise of two global superpowers, the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR). The aftermath of World War II was also...

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...

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...

During World War I and World War II, Switzerland maintained armed neutrality, and was not invaded by its neighbors, in part because of its topography...

military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers. Its principal members by the end of 1941 were the "Big Four" – the...

40 known prisoner-of-war camps across Canada during World War II, although this number also includes internment camps that held Canadians of German and...

Members of the United States armed forces were held as prisoners of war (POWs) in significant numbers during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973. Unlike...

War II. The Soviet Union suffered the greatest number of casualties in the war, losing more than 20 million citizens, about a third of all World War II...

World War II officially ended in Asia on September 2, 1945, with the surrender of Japan on the USS Missouri. Before that, the United States dropped two...

a list of fictional feature films or miniseries which feature events of World War II in the narrative. There is a separate list of World War II TV series...