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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
Major POW camps across the United States as of June 1944 Entrance to Camp Swift in Texas, August 1944. Members 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 in 700 camps throughout the United States during World War II.
This is a list of famous prisoners of war (POWs) whose imprisonment attracted media attention, or who became well known afterwards. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Japanese prisoners of war sent to camps fared well; however, some were killed when attempting to surrender or were massacred [130] just after doing so (see Allied war crimes during World War II in the Pacific). In some instances, Japanese prisoners of war were tortured through a variety of methods. [131]
Of the hundreds of thousands of POWs shipped to the United States, only 2,222 tried to escape. [17] There were about 600 escape attempts from Canada during the war, [18] including at least two mass escapes through tunnels. Four German POWs were killed attempting to escape from Canadian prison camps. Three others were wounded.
Estimates of the total mortality rate (the number of prisoners who died during the war) are usually given at the range of 750,000 [2]-751,000, [7] which in turn is reported as between 8.7% [7] to 10% [2] of the total (depending on the estimates of the total number of POWs taken in this conflict).