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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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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The Prisoner of War Medal is a military award of the United States Armed Forces which was authorized by Congress and signed into law by President Ronald...
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shooting of the prisoner under article 438, part 2 of the Criminal Code — violation of the laws and customs of war, adding that "[e]ven war has its own...
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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...
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Prisoner of War is a 1954 American war–drama film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Ronald Reagan, Steve Forrest, Dewey Martin and Oskar Homolka....
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Bien Hoa prisoner of war camp was a military prison in Bien Hoa, South Vietnam. On 27 November 1965 the United States and South Vietnamese Joint Military...
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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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of the Civil War through to 1863 a parole exchange system saw most prisoners of war swapped relatively quickly. However, from 1863 this broke down following...
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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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Look up prisoner of war in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A prisoner of war is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody...
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Prisoner of War is a 2002 third-person stealth video game developed by Wide Games and published by Codemasters. It follows the story of Captain Lewis...
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list of prisoner-of-war escapes includes successful and unsuccessful attempts in chronological order, where possible. In the beginning of the war Hans...
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Israel–Hamas war, a series of exchanges were made between Israel and Hamas to exchange militant-held hostages for Palestinian prisoners. The negotiations...
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with Soviet prisoners of war. Camps for Russian prisoners and internees in Poland (1919–24) Soviet prisoners of war in Finland during World War II (1939–45)...
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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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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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A video depicting the decapitation of a Ukrainian prisoner of war was first published online on 11 April 2023, and then circulated through pro-Russian...
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Human Rights Watch: Al-Qaeda detainees would likely not be accorded Prisoner of War (POW) status, but the Conventions still provide explicit protections...
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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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During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, both Ukrainian and Russian/separatist prisoners of war have suffered several forms of abuse, such as mistreatment...
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The rules and regulations concerning prisoners of war in Islam are covered in manuals of Islamic jurisprudence, based upon Islamic teachings, in both...
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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 year of the...
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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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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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The future of Palestinian prisoners detained by Israel in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is considered central to progress in the Israeli–Palestinian...
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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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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 I...
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alongside the treatment of prisoners of war, highlighted the human cost of the ongoing conflict. During the Russian annexation of Crimea from 23 February...
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Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp was a World War I prisoner-of-war camp for British and British Empire officers (Offizier Gefangenenlager) located in Holzminden...
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