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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 of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610.
The number of prisoners who died during the war would be 751,000 (8.7% of the total), including 478,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners, 122,000 Germans, 38,963 French in Germany. [15] 411,000 prisoners died in Russia (the majority of them Austro-Hungarian), [16] and more than 100,000 Italian prisoners out of 350,000 in Austria-Hungary.
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 in time of war. There are significant differences among POW camps, internment camps, and military prisons. Purpose-built prisoner-of-war camps appeared at Norman Cross in England in 1797 ...
American Civil War prison camps. A Union Army soldier barely alive in Georgia on his release in 1865. Both Confederate and Union prisoners of war suffered great hardships during their captivity. Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers.
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington – US Marine Corps Fighter Ace during WWII, Medal of Honor recipient. Fernand Braudel – historian, was a POW in WWII. Frank Buckles – the last surviving American veteran of WWI, was a civilian during WWII when imprisoned by the Japanese. Roger Bushell – South African-born RAF Squadron Leader.
Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945). [1] Germany signed the Third Geneva Convention of 1929, which established norms relating to the treatment of prisoners of war. Article 10 required PoWs be lodged in adequately heated and lighted buildings where conditions ...
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 U.S. service members captured in World War II and the Korean War, who were mostly enlisted troops, the overwhelming majority of Vietnam-era POWs were officers, most of them Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps airmen; a relatively small number of ...
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) 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 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...