POW camp
A prisoner of war camp is a prison , often in the form of a barrack camp , for enemy soldiers ( prisoners of war ) captured during and immediately after a war .
International treaties , such as the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War , are intended to ensure minimum standards for the treatment of prisoners. These are monitored by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The contracts are also intended to avoid confusing prisoner-of-war camps with labor camps .
The German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II were divided into main camps (abbreviation: Stalag) to accommodate the "crew tribe " ( men and officers ) and detention camps for enemy officers (abbreviation: Oflag ).
Displaced Persons (DPs) who were housed in DP camps after the end of the war did not fall under the term prisoner of war. It could well be that former prisoners of war were housed in DP camps.
Examples
- List of POW camps in Germany 1914–1918
- List of Wehrmacht POW camps
- Stalag VI A
- Stalag XB
- Oflag VII A
- Oflag VII B
- Stock verses
- Rhine meadow camp
- Golden Mile near Remagen
- Kaisersteinbruch prisoner of war camp
- POW camp 126 Nikolayev (USSR)
- POW camp No. 27 Lunjowo (Krasnogorsk, USSR)
- List of Soviet POW camps of World War II
- List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States
- List of Japanese prison camps in the world wars
See also
- internment
- Disarmed Enemy Forces
- In the case of war crimes by the Wehrmacht against their opponents, the treatment of prisoners of war from the Red Army (Soviet Union) is particularly serious
literature
Web links
- POW Camp Listings - British list of German POW camps ( Memento from April 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- POW camp 1939 - 1945 in what is now the state of Lower Saxony : Overview on the website of the Lower Saxony Memorial Fund Foundation of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation