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	Prisoner-of-war camp - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The earliest known purpose-built Prisoner-of-War camp was built at Norman Cross, England in 1797 to house the increasing number of prisoners from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
		One requirement was that PoW camps were to be open to inspection by authorized representatives of a neutral power.
		Camp 2 - Pyoktong - on the Yalu River.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Prisoner-of-war_camp (1297 words)

	Prisoners of War
		The number of camps in Britain was to change drastically though and from it's humble beginnings of just two camps in 1939 the network of PoW cams was to grow to 600 by 1948.
		The Marchent Camp, Devizes, Wiltshire and Sudbury, Derbyshire and Shrewsbury (GPC), Salop
		It was at this camp also that a number of Fallschirmjäger were also sent who, coming straight from the battlefields in France and with their strong sense of discipline intact, were enraged at the behaviour of the ill-disciplined Russians.
	www.fortunecity.com /campus/dixie/921/PoWs/pows.htm (4852 words)

	Never Forgotton - Summer 1999 - Page 1
		He was captured on Bataan in 1942 and was a POW at Bataan, Cabanatuan, and Bilibid, in the Philippines.
		The POWs did this job for the better part of three years until the camp was bombed by American planes in February of 1945.
		Then the camp was evacuated and the POWs were moved to the north to Taihoku (Taipei), or sent on to Japan.
	www.powtaiwan.org /pownewsfall99/pownews_pg8.htm (934 words)

	Photographs and Memorabilia
		The surviving POWs from the Oryoku Maru were held for six days on a single tennis court at the former Olongapo Naval Base and then taken by truck to San Fernando, Pampanga.
		The variance is possibly due to the number of POWs that died very soon after their arrival at Moji.
		The British and Dutch POWs along with other POWs were then placed on the Dainichi Maru and the Singapore Maru for the voyage to Takao, Formosa and on to Moji, Japan.
	www.west-point.org /family/japanese-pow/photos.htm (4276 words)

	German POW Camp in Clinton MS. Mostly Afrika Corps
		It is believed the lower-ranking officers were at the camp as aides to the generals.
		In addition to these officers, who lived in private houses on the camp grounds, there were several hundred enlisted men held at the camp as prisoners of war.
		He came to Clinton's prisoner of war camp in August of 1943 and remained at the 790 acre facility southwest of the city for three years and then was assigned to Foster General Hospital in Jackson for six months before the end of World War II.
	www.kilroywashere.org /004-Pages/JAN-Area/04-D-Jackson-POW.html (3784 words)

	WWII Stalag Luft & POW Camps
		The rule in most of the camps was that both "individual" (for a named person, sent and paid for by relatives and containing a mixture of goods) and "bulk" parcels (for general distribution, sent and paid for by the International Red Cross, and containing a supply of a single item) were pooled.
		In many other camps, captured officers were paid an equivalent of their pay in "lagergeld" or internal camp currency, and could buy items such as musical instruments and what few everyday goods which were available.
		As the numbers of airmen increased, this became essential as it was not unknown for the Germans to introduce infiltrators in an attempt to spy on camp operations and escape attempts.
	www.b24.net /pow/greatescape.htm (8576 words)

	Concentration Camp Listing
		It is estimated that the Nazi established 15,000 camps in the occupied countries.
		The inmates of these camps were forced under the pain of death to work for the German war effort, with no pay, inadequate food and other necessities to survive.
		Death camps, constructed for the sole purpose of mass executions by means of poison gas, shootings, starvation, disease, and torture were used by the Nazis to exterminate those fellow humans, men, women children and infants, by design.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html (1161 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Canadian POWs
		After 1941, the German POW camps were "relatively good," says Vance, who wrote a history of Canadian prisoners called "Objects of Concern".
		And someone captured and then killed may be listed as a battle casualty, not a prisoner.
		At the moment of the camp's liberation, 95 per cent of the inmates were not Germans.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/cdnpows (835 words)

	WWII Stalag Luft POW Camps
		Some 250 POWs were scheduled to go, but most of them were caught in the immediate area, some still in the tunnel; only 3 made it all the way home.
		To reflect a bit on the POW experience and life in a pow camp, let me say it is a very dehumanizing thing.
		In the POW experience, as you lose control of your life, a feeling of utter helplessness sets in; then you suddenly become very bitter and a driving desire to survive engulfs you.
	www.b24.net /pow/luft3.htm (7903 words)

	National Alliance of POW/MIA Families Newsletter
		Based on the time and location, the captured POW was correlated to one of two individuals on board the aircraft.
		During his debriefing, returned POW Johnnie Johnson told of a list he methodically and heroically maintained during his captivity.
		He confirmed to us that neither he nor his mother was ever told of the "Tiger List." He only learned of the list while in D.C. He also told us of an error in one of the stories.
	pages.prodigy.net /lynnpowmia/020810.htm (4091 words)

	POW CAMPS page 2
		No Philippine camps were listed in submissions by Japanese as the Philippines had been recaptured by the Allies.
		List of PI Camps from the Recovered POW List
		All of the camps from FOR-08-Karenko on down the list were temporary camps in one way or another, even though Karenko Camp was opened and used before some of the other main camps - like Kinkaseki and Shirakawa.
	www.mansell.com /pow_resources/camplists/list_2.html (805 words)

	World War II: POW-MIA at Canadian Content
		Extensive WWII POW research of Stalag Lufts in Europe along with the B-24 Liberator bombers of the 392nd BG.
		POW survivor Abie Abraham tells the real truth about the Death March and prison camps in Bataan.
		Duncan, a POW WW2 in Italy and Germany.
	www.canadiancontent.net /dir/Top/Society/Military/POW-MIA/World_War_II (1839 words)

	America's World War II Prison Camps
		There were 120,000 of these internees in a dozen camps, mostly in the mountain states, but with two camps in eastern Arkansas.
		They were only allowed to bring into the camps what they could carry in their arms in one trip.
		Prior to the exchange, lists of internees in the U.S., including the names of German-Jews, were provided to the authorities of the Third Reich.
	www.lewrockwell.com /north/north71.html (1449 words)

	Russian POW
		The Kresy-Siberia list brings into contact people from countries around the world with a special interest in the tragedy of the 1.7 million Polish citizens of various faiths and ethnicities (Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, etc.) deported from eastern Poland (Kresy) in 1940-42 to special labour camps in Siberia, Kazakhstan and Soviet Asia.
		He was put in labour camps and whilst there, there was a fire in his billet which destroyed all the family photographs--one or two he'd been carrying in his wallet.
		They were put work camps for nearly four years in this country before they had their freedom and went to live in Bolton Lancashire where they both married and remain friends till their deaths.
	www.dpcamps.org /russianpow.html (2250 words)

	Prisoner of war camp - WebArticles.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Enlisted ranks were required to perform whatever labor they were asked and able to do, so long as it was not dangerous and did not support the German war effort.
		List of POW camps in Germany (Stalags), also see [24]
		Peace Camp) was located in the northwestern vincinity of the Capitol.
	www.webarticles.com /print.php?id=336 (1076 words)

	Jewish POW's at Colditz
		Allied Officers who had made repeated attempts to escape from other POW camps were housed here by the Germans in the expectation that they would never get out of such an imposing fortress.
		The POW population was typically a shifting one but of the thousand or so who were there, it is estimated about 40 were Jewish and it is known that there were about 60 French Jewish political internees as well.
		Born son of Israel and Edith in West Ham, London on 1/1/18, he was captured in Crete by the Germans on 29/5/41 but escaped and spent 3 months in the mountains with the Partisans [12].
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/ww2/sugar6.html (1525 words)

	AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There are at least 130 concentration camps quietly modified facilities which have sprung up and continue to spring up across the country, seemingly devoid of activity, yet requiring strange accoutrements such as barbed wire-topped fencing (with the tops turned inward) and helicopter wind socks.
		A local police officer who was hunting and camping close to the base in the game preserve was accosted, roughed up, and warned by the English-speaking unit commander to stay away from the area.
		Camp was accidentally discovered by a man and his son who were rabbit hunting; they were discovered and apprehended.
	www.apfn.org /apfn/camps.htm (14118 words)

	Rongstad's Worldwide Military Links: List of Camps for German POW in the U.S.A. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Camp Concordia, also see, and also see, also, branch camps in Hays and Peabody.
		There are German POW buried in Benicia Arsenal Cemetery according to news reports in The Benicia News.
		POW Behind Canadian Barbed Wire prisoner of war camps located in Canada during WWI and WWII.
	vikingphoenix.com /public/rongstad/military/pow/axispow.htm (459 words)

	DP Camps Links page R-Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He came over to a POW camp in Stuartfield in the north east of Scotland around about 1945 -1946 but it is possible he was over before that.
		German WWI 1914-1918 POWs were held at Delamere Grange and were used to fell timber for and to transport timber to Saw Mills near Cuddington Railway Station
		I sent your link to a friend who was born in the camps in '43 and came to the states in '49.
	www.dpcamps.org /linksR-Z.html (2189 words)

	links for research, Allied POWs under the Japanese
		Very detailed list of mostly British POWs including an updated Java Index of men captured in Java area plus hell ship rosters.
		His brother, Jim "Bud" Kerns, was a Marine POW from Corregidor and was enslaved at the Kamioka Mine in Japan.
		Prepared by the son of former POW William E. Bowen.
	www.mansell.com /pow_resources/links.html (1226 words)

	WW2 Prisoners of War, Killed while POW's
		Fukuoka POW Camp #10 Futase Kyushu Island 34-131
		Fukuoka POW Camp #9 Miyata Kyushu Island 33-131
		Kobe POW Hospital (Serves Osaka POW Camp) Cent.
	www.iltrails.org /ww2powcamps.html (1525 words)

	FULL downloadable PDF file is available from the DPMO Website
		A list was compiled by a woman containing 22 names of citizens of the USA
		imprisoned in the Kirovskij camp during the winter of 1951 to 1952.
		POW camps The actual cemetery was located of the south border of the "industrial
	www.pownetwork.org /russian_memoirs.htm (4362 words)

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