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	British Prisoners of war 1914-1918
		A printed list of officers taken POW was produced during the war, and has been reprinted in recent years: there is a copy in the National Archives Library, and it can be found on the used book market.
		It is the List of officers taken prisoner in the various theatres of war between August 1914 and November 1918.
		List of principal POW camps in Germany 1914-1919
	www.1914-1918.net /pow.htm (217 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: camps/auschwitz/auschwitz.faq1
		As they were wearing worn-out camp clothing they were not left in the undressing hut but made to undress in the open air.
		Holocaust denial often includes the claim that Germany in the 1940's could not handle the "technical difficulties" inherent in using HCN for execution - "difficulties" that were easily solved in 1920.
		Camp authorities needed an economic and fast method of corpse disposal, so they again dug six huge pits beside Crematorium Five and reopened old pits in the wood.
	www.nizkor.org /ftp.cgi/camps/auschwitz/auschwitz.faq1 (4729 words)

	Prisoners of War
		The Marchent Camp, Devizes, Wiltshire and Sudbury, Derbyshire and Shrewsbury (GPC), Salop
		Camp 168, Glen Mill Camp which was a disused cotton mill in Wellyhole Road in Oldham, Lancashire and possessed a large number of Russian volunteers who had been captured fighting for the Germans in France.
		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)

	war and social upheaval: World War II -- concentration camps
		The first concentration camps set up in Germany were followed after the start of World War II by a myriad of camps throughout Western Euope run by the SS as a state within a state.
		The initial purpose of the camps in Germany was the political repression of the anti-NAZI elements.
		One of the tragedies of the liberation of the NAZI camps was that many of the Russian POWs and slave laborers who managed to survive the horific conditions in the camps were arrested and intererned in the Soviet Gulag.
	histclo.com /essay/war/ww2/hol/kz/kz.html (3100 words)

	Blog Reload: The power of the POW
		Germany had a democratic parliamentary system prior to Hitler seizing power in the early 1930s and Japan had some semblance of a constitutional monarchy prior to the rise of militarism in the late 1920s, whereas Iraq has never had a representative government.
		She was on a train, and an older German man recognized that she was an American, and began to tell her about the time he had spent as a POW in Kansas during the War.
		It's difficult to really measure the effect that these men had upon their return in the rebirth and reconstruction of Germany and Japan, but it shouldn't take a lot of convincing that they were more trusting of the Americans than if they'd been photographed naked on a pile of their countrymen.
	www.reload.ws /blog/2004/08/power-of-pow.html (559 words)

	Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State . Auschwitz 1940-1945 . Nazi Ideology and the Camp System \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rather than sending them to concentration camps where they would have to be housed and fed along with people who were being held and then sometimes released, disabled people were taken from hospitals and other institutions and sent to designated locations for "special treatment." That "special treatment" was killing.
		Camps in the Netherlands, France, and elsewhere in western and northwestern Europe followed in 1940, and beginning in 1941, in Greece, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union.
		These included POW camps for captured enemy soldiers, labor camps for conquered people, brothels based on sexual slavery, ghettos for Jews, camps for Gypsies, and starting in late 1941, death camps equipped with the means to murder thousands of people—almost always Jews—each day.
	www.pbs.org /auschwitz/40-45/background/ideology.html (1036 words)

	Prisoner of war camp - WebArticles.com
		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.
		Article 10 required that PoWs should be lodged in adequately heated and lighted buildings where conditions were the same as their own troops.
	www.webarticles.com /print.php?id=336 (1076 words)

	List of POW camps in Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article is a list of PoW camps in Germany (and in German occupied territory) during any conflict.
		These are the camps that housed captured members of the enemy armed forces, crews of ships of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft.
		Germany was a signatory at the Third Geneva Convention which established the provisions relative to the treatment of Prisoners of War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Prisoner_of_War_Camps_in_WWII (733 words)

	German POW Camp in Clinton MS. Mostly Afrika Corps
		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.
		Although be was an electrician and a communications specialist in the Germany army he told American POW officials that he was a cook.
	www.kilroywashere.org /004-Pages/JAN-Area/04-D-Jackson-POW.html (3784 words)

	German POWs in Allied Hands in World War II
		Shipped to separate camps in Siberia and elsewhere in the western Soviet Union, the German POWs were subjected to aggressive reeducation in communist ideology, as well as frequent beatings, torture, and execution.
		German POWs had medical care, shelter, and were paid wages for their labor, although very low ones.
		German POWs often remained defiant Nazis in captivity, but others were grateful for a hot meal and a warm place to sleep after the horrors of modern warfare.
	www.worldwar2database.com /html/germanpow.htm (466 words)

	WWII Stalag Luft POW Camps
		Some 1500 of the POWs, who were not physically able to walk, were sent by train to Stalag Luft I On Feb. 6, with little notice, more than 6,000 US and British airmen began a forced march to the west in subzero weather, for which they were not adequately clothed or shod.
		German POW camps are generally acknowledged to have observed the letter of the law, but were often a world unto themselves; isolated kingdoms, in far off places, where men of cruelty and ill will could do their worst...
		Mistreatment of prisoners in camp and on the Black March, was attributed to Cpls.
	www.b24.net /pow/luft4.htm (4529 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)

	Home
		Within these pages there are some photographs, a list of names and addresses, a list of the places he was marched through on his way to Poland plus a few others things that I found following his death in 1996.
		I am also the list owner of RootsWeb List Stalag POW Camps A list where questions can be asked about POW camps.
		The list is still very new and not that many subscribers yet but it is growing and any messages posted to the list are archived for others to find at a later date.
	www.geocities.com /stalag8b (693 words)

	FEMA Concentration Camps: Locations and Executive Orders - Friends of Liberty (undated) 3sep04
		These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached.
		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.mindfully.org /Reform/2004/FEMA-Concentration-Camps3sep04.htm (6459 words)

	A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: Camps
		In comparison to the other extermination camps, Chelmno was technologically primitive, employing carbon monoxide gas vans as the main method of killing.
		In the last period of the Nazi regime (1942-45), prisoners of concentration camps were forced to work in the armament industry, as more and more Germans were fighting in the war.
		At first a labor camp for Poles and a POW camp for Russians, it was classified as a concentration camp in April 1943.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/timeline/camps2.htm (2135 words)

	World War II - Japan's Prisoner of War (POW) Camps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1997, former POW and civilian internees continued seeking redress from Japan for the war crimes.
		Belly of the Beast: A POW's Inspiring True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival Aboard the Infamous WWII Japanese Hellship, the Oryoku Maru by Judith Pearson, story of U.S. Navy medical corpsman, Estel Myers.
		The information may be ordered for small donations in the amounts indicated after the name of each camp, as shown in Axis POW Camp Reports.
	vikingphoenix.com /public/rongstad/military/pow/pwcmps-2.htm (764 words)

	E-Budo.com - Judo in POW Camps in Germany
		E-Budo.com - Judo in POW Camps in Germany
		A glance down the list of contents of the first volume alone shows how the members of the Budokwai did their best to continue practising judo despite at times serious disadvantages.
		The making and wearing of these jackets from Germany Army stuff and mailbags carried with it the danger of court martial and a possible penalty of ten year imprisonment if any German officer had taken the matter seriously.
	www.e-budo.com /forum/showthread.php?t=24123 (624 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)

	World War II - Axis Prisoner of War (POW) Camps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		List of Japan's Prisoner of War (POW) Camps
		POW held by Allies WW-I and WW-II
		Camps for German POW in the U.S.A. Index
	www.vikingphoenix.com /public/rongstad/military/pow/pwcmps-1.htm (328 words)

	DP Camps Links page N-P
		A Letter to Susan A Dutch forced laborer wrote to his daughter in 1983, 40 years after having been deported to Germany.
		The following listing is of a number of important contacts for information on WWII German soldiers, various units, matters of importance to familiy members or relatives, and details on MIAs and KIAs.
		Stalin's POW: The Fort Dix POW riot and Repatriation, the dark side...
	www.dpcamps.org /linksN-P.html (971 words)

	WW2 Prisoners of War, Killed while POW's
		POW Hospital (Serves Stalag 3-B) Guben Brandenburg, Prussia 52-14
		POW Lazaret (Serves Stalag 6-J) Dusseldorf-Gerresheim Rheinland, Prussia 51-07
		Stalag 11A (POWs from Stg L4 and L1) Altengrabow Brandenburg, Prussia 52-12
	www.iltrails.org /ww2powcamps.html (1525 words)

	AII POW-MIA Examination of US Policy
		Several other soldiers-Major Rhonda Cornum for example---were taken prisoner by the enemy but were not listed as POW or MIA or KIA; their subsequent release by the Iraqis came as a surprise to the American public and the national media.
		In 1973, the Vietnamese used POWs in an attempt to flmail the United States into providing nearly $5 billion in so-called "reparations." Both the United States and Vietnam asserted in that year that "Operation Homecoming" was bringing home all known prisoners.
		During World War I (1914-1918), military personnel captured by Germany and the Central Powers on the Western Front were returned home when the U.S., British, or Western European allies liberated the POW camps, or after the capitulation of Germany and its allies in November, 1918.
	www.aiipowmia.com /reports/exam1.html (5598 words)

	POW/MIA Issue Overview
		It is the only camp in the entire Soviet occupied zone in Europe in which U.S. contact personnel were allowed -- the Yalta agreement not withstanding -- and was the source of much of Harriman's outrage.
		The Soviets have now contended that Odessa is the only present 'camps and points of concentration' referred to in the [Yalta] agreement to which our contact officers are to be permitted.
		Russians of all categories are accepted at Florence camp, outfitted with clothing, PX supplies and same facilities as for United States personnel.
	www.ojc.org /powforum/examin/ovrvw03.htm (3291 words)

	POW/MIA Issue Overview
		The meeting, at Halle, Germany, on May 22, 1945 was for the purpose of conferring with representatives of the Russian High Command on the matter of repatriation of prisoners of war and displaced persons.[43]
		The remaining decrease in the number of men still listed as POWs (646) can, however, be explained by the War Department issuing Presumed Findings of Death for these individuals.
		Thousands of U.S. personnel who were known to be POWs held by the Germans in World War II, but, were not repatriated once the territory they were being held in was occupied by Red Army, and were legally determined to be dead.
	www.ojc.org /powforum/examin/ovrvw04.htm (2653 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)

	DP Camps
		Only a handful of Displaced Persons Camps are known to philatelists, but there were hundreds of camps scattered across Germany, Austria, Italy and even Yugoslavia.
		The majority of camps were located in the American and British occupation zones of Germany.
		However, mail to and from camp residents is highly prized by specialist collectors.
	www.jaypex.com /DP (317 words)

	Salute To Dad - A Former P.O.W. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In this DHTML script, there are five links that constantly remain in the upper left hand corner.
		He served in the Army during WWII, in Europe, and was captured and held as a P.O.W. for over two years.
		He was in four different P.O.W. camps, including Stalag Luft III, where he spent most of his internment and where the "Great Escape" happened.
	www.powdad.net /dad (319 words)

	Displaced Persons' (DP) Camps Book List, page 2
		There were millions of Displaced Persons in Germany at the end of World War II, most of whom had been brought in for forced labor during the war effort.
		The book has charts listing all kown camps and centers in the British Zone of Occupation by code number, alphabetically by location, and by the numbers of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the International Refugee Organization und private relief teams responsible for them.
		In addition, a list of British Field Post Office numbers in Germany, as well as of unit numbers of the Britsh Army of the Rhine help to make the history of Displaced Persons and their mails far clearer and easier to understand than they ever were before.
	www.dpcamps.org /books2.html (1144 words)

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