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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 ...
List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps administered by France. List of prisoner-of-war camps in Allied-occupied Germany. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Kenya. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United Kingdom.
After the United States entered World War II in 1941, the government of the United Kingdom requested American help with housing prisoners of war [11] due to a housing shortage in Britain, asking for the US to take 175,000 prisoners. [12] [13] The United States reluctantly agreed to house them, [14]: 5 [11] although it was not prepared.
Once prisoners reached a POW camp conditions were better (and often much better than in World War II), thanks in part to the efforts of the International Red Cross and inspections by neutral nations. There was much harsh treatment of POWs in Germany, as recorded by the American ambassador (prior to America's entry into the war), James W. Gerard ...
Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. World War II prisoners of war by nationality (13 C) World War II prisoners of war by country of detention (16 C)
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.
Prisoners returning in 1955. Approximately three 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 year of the war. The POWs were employed as forced labor in the Soviet wartime economy and post-war reconstruction.
Before World War II, the treatment of prisoners of war had occupied a central role in the codification of the law of war and detailed guidelines were laid down in the 1907 Hague Convention. [24] Germany was a signatory of the 1929 Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, and generally adhered to it with prisoners of other nationalities.