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| | GI -- World War II Commemoration |
 | | For example, Montesquieu (1689-1755) held that to murder prisoners of war is contrary to all law, and Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) added that they must not be held in dungeons or prisons, or put in iron, but should be placed in healthy conditions and liberated after the end of the war. | | | War crimes can be punished, not only by the organs of the country of which the offender is a citizen--for example, a guard who tortures, or a camp commander who orders the torturing of, prisoners of war will in a civilized country be court-martialed by his own authorities--but also by the enemy. | | | Although subsequently further refined by various international conventions--for example, the Geneva Prisoner of War Convention of 1929 and the Geneva conventions of 1949--the Hague Regulations of 1907 (as they are called for short) have continued to form the core of the law of war of the 20th century. |
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http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_warcrimes.html
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| | FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders |
| | 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. | | | Some (but not all) of these facilities are currently being used for low-risk state prisoners who require a minimum of supervision. | | | The story of Japanese-American internment during World War II. |
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http://www.global-conspiracies.com/fema_concentration_camps.htm
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| | Prisoners of War: World War II |
| | 93-96, lists categories of inhumane treatment of prisoners of war and civilian internees in violation of the Hague and Geneva conventions specifying murder, beatings, torture, ill-treatment, illegal employment, and the rape of female prisoners by members of Japanese forces. | | | Prisoners of the Japanese: POW's of World War II in the Pacific. | | | Prisoners of War and Their Captors in World War II. |
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http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq41-1.htm
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| | American Women Prisoners of War |
| | During World War One both Edith Cavell and Mata Hari were prisoners of war and were executed for being spies. | | | During the Civil War Dr. Mary Walker was held for four months in a Confederate prison camp, accused of being a spy for the Union Army. | | | Florena Budwin, wife of a Pennsylvania soldier of the Civil War disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the Union Army to be near her husband. |
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http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/prisoners.html
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| | WWII_WebQuest |
| | Your task is to wear the boots of an American soldier, a citizen at home, or a prisoner of war. | | | To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, we have put together what we believe to be the definitive collection of World War II historical materials on the Web. | | | To gain a deeper insight into the war effort, you are encouraged to read some of the personal entries written about war experiences by veterans of WW II included on some of the web sites. |
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http://www.stnorbert-school.org/wwiiwebquest.htm
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| | WWII Stalag Luft 3 |
| | Compared to other prisoner of war camps throughout the Axis world, it was a model of civilized internment. | | | The Geneva Convention of 1929 on the treatment of prisoners of war was complied with as much as possible, but it was still war, still prison, and still grim. | | | For the enlisted men, guarding prisoners was probably regarded as better than duty in the East, but for the officers it must have been one of the least desired assignments. |
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http://www.b24.net/pow/stalag3.htm
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| | Prisoner of War Camps - Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939-1945 |
| | Yorktown Aviator - "My Experience as Prisoner of War by the Imperial Japanese." The story of an American pilot at Ofuna. | | | After Omori had been established in 1943 ('42?), Shinagawa was converted into a "hospital" for prisoners of war. | | | The prisoners' barracks were in the middle of the island, between the administration buildings and the soldiers' quarters (north) and the anti aircraft guns (south). |
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http://www.warsailors.com/POWs/powcamps.html
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| | Statistics on the Prisoner of War issue |
| | Shelton, USAF, as a Prisoner of War from the Vietnam War. | | | Even today, 45 years after the end of the Korean War, there are more than 100 South Koreans being held captive in the Communist North.Chang Mu-hwan and Yang Sun-yong, both in their 70s, appealed to the government to bring back the South Korean prisoners of war held in the North. | | | Vietnam War had 57,685 Killed in Action - at least 2,459 Missing in Action or Prisoner of War. |
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http://www.pownetwork.org/statistics.htm
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| | Fukuoka POW Camp #1 - Forward & Updates |
| | NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 9, 2004, as National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day. | | | I hope that I can in some small way contribute to a better understanding of what went on at a Japanese prisoner of war camp, namely Fukuoka POW Camp #1, and help others find out what happened to their husbands, their fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers who were at one time interned here. | | | Our Nation is grateful to our former prisoners of war for their sacrifice to help protect the democratic ideals that make our country strong. |
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http://home.comcast.net/~winjerd/POWCamp1.htm
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| | Fleet Air Arm POW Roll of Honour. |
| | List of Axis Prisoner of War (POW) Camps for airmen | | | List of all Fleet Air Arm Telegraphist Air Gunners Prisoners of War | | | This was the main German Prisoner of War Camp for Fleet Air Arm and airmen officers of the Allied forces. |
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http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/RollofHonour/POW/FAA_POWHomepage.html
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| | World War II casualties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | France: From the beginning of the war until the capitulation of France in 1940, 892 aircraft were lost, of which 413 were in action and 234 were on the ground. | | | Germany: Estimated total losses for the war totalled 116,584 aircraft, of which 70,000 were total losses and the remainder significantly damaged. | | | Finland: Reported losses during the Winter War totalled 67, of which 42 were operational, while 536 aircraft were lost during the Continuation War, of which 209 were operational losses. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_casualties_by_country
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| | German camps in occupied Poland during World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Many prisoners of war from the Soviet Union were also brought to Poland, where most of them died in labour camps. | | | Many of the 400,000 Polish prisoners of war captured by Germans during the 1939 invasion of Poland were also confined in these camps, although many of them were also sent as forced labourers in Germany. | | | The Germans established several camps for prisoners of war (POWs) from the western Allied countries in territory which before 1939 had been part of Poland. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camps_in_Poland_during_World_War_II
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| | WWWPubCo (OkieLegacy)- WWII POW camps in Oklahoma |
| | Following are the various camps, dates they were in operation and the maximum number of aliens or prisoners held there. | | | In November 15, 1987 Article in the Daily Oklahoman It shows a map of Oklahoma with the location of some POW and Interment Camp Headquarters dotted across the state of Oklahoma during World War II. | | | Hickory - (a branch of the Camp Howze, Texas, camp) May to June 1944; 13. |
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http://okielegacy.org/WWIIpowcamps/powcamp1.html
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| | : POW/MIA Forum : |
| | History in the brief: During World War II, Thousands upon thousands of American Prisoners of War were liberated by the Red Army but not turned over to US control nor were they repatriated to the US. | | | At the conclusion of the Vietnam War, the Joint Chiefs were enraged at the small amont of Prisoners of War the North Vietnamese admitted to holding. | | | Were American Prisoners of War killed by the US in the 1970's? |
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http://www.ojc.org/powforum/history.htm
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| | AII POW-MIA - JCSD 2001 WW II Working Group |
| | Through its investigative efforts, the World War II Working Group has confirmed that there were about 28,000 American Prisoners of War held by the German Nazis and their allies in camps on the Eastern Front. | | | These prisoners came under Soviet control in the war’s final days. | | | Timothy K. Nenninger and Colonel Nikolay Ivanovich Nikiforov, the Commission’s World War II Working Group has exchanged and examined thousands of documents dealing with the fates of American and Soviet POWs during and after the war. |
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http://www.aiipowmia.com/gulag/jcsd2001_wwii.html
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| | Mitsubishi World War II (WWII) POW Sendai #6 (Hanawa) Camp |
| | "The Osarizawa Copper Mine at Hanawa has been in continuous operation for 1300 years; and some of the 503 Americans forced to work there for Mitsubishi during the war claimed mining methods were as primitive in the 1940s as they were centuries earlier. | | | This site is about a few hundred men - 503 Allied World War II POWs and over 50 Commonwealth POWs, brought in to work at Mitsubishi-operated Osarizawa copper mine during the period of 1944 to 1945 when they were finally liberated. | | | "This time, when he fell in the snow, he was left lying there for twelve hours while the other prisoners worked." |
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http://www.mitsubishisucks.com/slave-labor/camps/hanawa
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| | Prisoners_of_war |
| | It is the story of prisoners held by the Japanese during the Second World War... | | | It was ironic then that he ended up as a prisoner of war on the notorious Burma Railroad, enduring torture and experiencing dreadful war crimes perpetrated against Allied prisoners... | | | No account of WWII, the Pacific War, or of war crimes committed during WWII is complete without Rees' analysis of what drove soldiers and what made them tick during these times... |
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http://books.mysic.co.uk/Prisoners_Of_War
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| | Australian POWs - ANZAC Prisoners of War at Buchewald and Colditz |
| | Australian POWs- ANZAC Prisoners of War at Buchewald and Colditz | | | Illustrated Catalog of Civil War Military Goods: Union Weapons, Insignia, Uniform Accessories and Other Equipment | | | Jack took part in two of the most spectacular mass escapes of the war, but was recaptured on both occasions, and for his audacity in trying to escape was sent to Colditz Castle in Saxony, where the Germans had brought together the most hardened escapers of the war. |
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http://www.1earth.com.au/militaria/b/aussiepow.html
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| | AII POW-MIA Japanese POW Camps |
| | The opinions expressed on this site are those of Advocacy and Intelligence Index for Prisoners of War - Missing in Action. | | | Camps in Formosa :: Camps in Korea :: Camps in Manchuria :: Camps in CHina and Hong Kong | | | Camps on Philippine Islands :: Luzon Group, Caballo Island Group, Mindanao Island Group, Palawan Island |
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http://www.aiipowmia.com/wwii/jpwcamp.html
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| | Gamebits: Prisoner of War won’t hold your attention captive |
| | Gamebits: Prisoner of War won’t hold your attention captive | | | To have proper expectations of this game, realize there is a difference between prisoner of war camps and the more dramatized concentration camps. | | | With only so many routes players can take to escape, and with predefined outcomes, Prisoner of War is little more than a series of exercises. |
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http://www.wpi.edu/News/TechNews/article.php?id=503
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| | World War II - List of Japan's Prisoner of War (POW) Camps |
| | SOLD Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War: An Oral History of Korean War POWS (HB) new, | | | Prisoner of War Camp #1 Fukuoka, Japan - An Insight into Life and Death at a POW Camp in War-time Japan | | | World War II - Japan's Prisoner of War (POW) Camps |
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http://vikingphoenix.com/public/rongstad/military/pow/pwcmps-3.htm
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| | GameStats: Prisoner of War |
| | Check out the trailer for Codemasters' upcoming sneaker set in the prisoner of war camps in WWII. | | | Insider: First Impressions of Prisoner of War (PS2) | | | Codemasters' 1941 sneaker title challenging players to get info and escape from German war prisoner camps is off to the factory. |
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http://www.gamestats.com/objects/016/016048
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| | Travel destinations: Dachau-Nazi concentration camp in World War II |
| | But only the long lists of prisoner names utter the extent of the tragedy that was created in this camp alone. | | | Travel destinations: Dachau-Nazi concentration camp in World War II The history of Turkey: from 1919 to 1990 | | | A travel-oriented look at one of the Nazi concentration camps from World War II : medical/experimental camp Dachau. |
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http://ks.essortment.com/whatisdachau_rvig.htm
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| | Resources |
| | Ploesti: Fortunes of war prevented a daring raid from crippling German oil supplies by Bob Worley | | | The Dutch Society of World War II Collectors | | | United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide |
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http://www.376hbgva.com/resources
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| | Prisoner of war - the free encyclopedia |
| | Since the special rightsof a prisoner of war, granted by governments, is the result of multilateral treaties, thesedefinitions have no legal effect and those claiming rights under these definitions wouldlegally be considered common criminals under an arresting jurisdiction's laws. | | | In principle, to be entitled to prisoner of war status, the captured servicemember must have conducted operations according tothe laws and customs of war, e.g. | | | For instance, in World War II, Soviet prisoners of Nazi Germany and Germanprisoners of the Soviet Union were often treated with neglect and brutality. |
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http://www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com/?t=POW
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| | Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War |
| | A prisoner of war shall be tried only by a military court, unless the existing laws of the Detaining Power expressly permit the civil courts to try a member of the armed forces of the Detaining Power in respect of the particular offence alleged to have been committed by the prisoner of war. | | | Prisoners of war who are paroled or who have given their promise in conformity with the laws and regulations so notified, are bound on their personal honour scrupulously to fulfil, both towards the Power on which they depend and towards the Power which has captured them, the engagements of their paroles or promises. | | | Prisoners of war may not be sentenced by the military authorities and courts of the Detaining Power to any penalties except those provided for in respect of members of the armed forces of the said Power who have committed the same acts. |
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http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm
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| | The Avalon Project - Laws of War : Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague II); July 29, 1899 |
| | Prisoners of war may be set at liberty on parole if the laws of their country authorize it, and, in such a case, they are bound, on their personal honor, scrupulously to fulfill, both as regards their own Government and the Government by whom they were made prisoners, the engagements they have contracted. | | | Gifts and relief in kind for prisoners of war shall be admitted free of all duties of entry and others, as well as of payments for carriage by the Government railways. | | | Every prisoner of war, if questioned, is bound to declare his true name and rank, and if he disregards this rule, he is liable to a curtailment of the advantages accorded to the prisoners of war of his class. |
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http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague02.htm
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| | Abuse of Prisoners in Iraq (washingtonpost.com) |
| | The United States seeks to comply fully with its convention obligations with respect to prisoners of war and security prisoners in Iraq. | | | Prisoner abuse is a war crime, not a matter of administrative discipline. | | | Both the United States and Iraq have long been parties to the Geneva Conventions, and the United States is bound to observe the conventions in the war for the liberation of Iraq. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9692-2004May7_2.html
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| | Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | But, the Administration claims that prisoners taken in Afghanistan did not qualify as prisoners of war under international law. | | | It was discovered that one prisoner, Manadel al-Jamadi, died as a result of abuse, a death that was ruled a homicide by the military. | | | This was the first internal evidence since the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse affair became public in April, 2004 that forms of abusive coercion and torture of captives had been mandated by the President. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_prisoner_abuse
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| | Prisoner of war - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Since the special rights of a prisoner of war, granted by governments, are the result of multilateral treaties, these definitions have no legal effect and those claiming rights under these definitions would legally be considered common criminals under an arresting jurisdiction's laws. | | | The term enemy prisoner of war (EPW) is used by the United States to refer to a captured enemy service member in their custody, but is not a term under the Geneva Conventions. | | | Similarly, during the Vietnam War, American service members captured by North Vietnam were routinely beaten and tortured in violation of their status as prisoners of war. |
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