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A map (front) of Imperial Japanese-run prisoner-of-war camps within the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere known during World War II from 1941 to 1945. Back of map of Imperial Japanese-run prisoner-of-war camps with a list of the camps categorized geographically and an additional detailed map of camps located on the Japanese archipelago .
The marked game sets also included foreign currency (French and German, for example), compasses and other items needed for escaping Allied prisoners of war. [1] Escape maps were also printed on playing cards distributed to Prisoners of War which could be soaked and peeled apart revealing the escape map. [7]
Prisoners of war during World War II faced vastly different fates due to the POW conventions adhered to or ignored, depending on the theater of conflict, and the behaviour of their captors. During the war approximately 35 million soldiers surrendered, with many held in the prisoner-of-war camps .
Map of German World War II Prisoner of War Camps; Lamsdorf Remembered; POW Camp Listings; Stoker Harold Siddall Royal Navy, captured on Crete and his life in Stalag VIIA; The Memorial of Esterwegen - The Emsland Camps; Oflag VC Wurzach / Ilag (Civil internees from Jersey) Stalag VIIIC and Stalag Luft 3 POW Camps Museum in Zagan, Poland
Countries were to use the same standards for quality of facilities and food for prisoners of war as they used for their own soldiers. [5] Throughout World War II, the United States as a whole was known for treating prisoners of war incredibly well, often in hopes of securing similar treatment for American prisoners held by other countries. [23]
Camp Aliceville was a World War II era prisoner of war (POW) camp in Aliceville, Alabama. Its construction began in August 1942, it received its first prisoners in June 1943, and it shut down in September 1945. It was the largest World War II POW camp in the Southeastern United States, holding between 2,000 and 12,000 German prisoners at any ...
Polish prisoners of war captured by the Red Army during the Soviet invasion of Poland. As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war. Official Soviet estimate for the number of POWs taken during th campaign was 190,584 and is treated as reliable by some historians. [3]
Oflag VI-B was a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager), 1 km (0.6 mi) southwest of the village of Dössel (now part of Warburg) in Germany. It held French , British, Polish and other Allied officers.