Prisoner-of-war camp

States immediately after the Civil War knew very little of the atrocities of that occurred in the prisoner of war camps. News that their family member was in a prisoner of war camp was usually dreaded by the family of the captured soldiers. While being dead was much worse the families never truly knew what was going on inside the camps. For the Confederacy, many feared Rock Island, but there was a just as deadly camp just north of Rock Island in Chicago. Once the war had ended the atrocities of what

Almost everyone was an enemy to one another in World War II, and the countries had to do everything they could to keep the enemies from having any kind of chance to win the war. Prisoner of war camps came about when countries were able to get in control of the enemy and take them away and put them into a camp. There were many camps in every country, but all had a lot of differences. Each camp had different ways in which they treated their prisoners, some worse than others. Interesting Facts In Japan

Bergen-Belsen prisoner-of-war camp was set up near Celle, Germany (USHMM). SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Adolf Haas was the first officer of the camp. It didn’t become an official concentration camp until December of 1944, when SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Kramer became the commandant (Webb and Lisciotto). Homosexuals, gypsies, Jews, and many other types of people were imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen (USHMM). The prisoner-of-war camp ran from 1940 to 1945, and held French and Belgian prisoners (Bergen-Belsen: Camp Complex)

Camp Douglas and Camp Sumter were both Civil War prisoner of war camps located in Chicago, IL, and Andersonville, GA. At first, I wondered how they were similar and different since they were in different states as well as different sides throughout the war and the significance of the names. Through research, I learned that the two camps were more alike than different. The only distinctive things at each camp that one held more prisoners, which is why more died and survived there and that they had

Carli Huston A soldier in World War II is on the battlefield fighting for his country. Suddenly he is captured and finds himself in a strange place. He realizes he is in now a prisoner of war camp in a foreign country, and he prays he is treated well and gets to go back home soon. World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945 and involved countries such as America, Germany, Japan, and Italy, just to name a few. There were millions of casualties, and every involved country suffered a loss. The Geneva

Thacker Pre-AP English II, B8 Mrs. Connor April 17, 2015 Prisoners of Death Bang! Boom! All you can see is darkness, but you hear as if outside. Prisoners of war were captured everywhere during WWII. POW camps had better treatment and were better than than other concentration camps. The conditions of the camps varied from one to another, but from Stalags and Concentration camps, they were close to the same. A large portion of deaths in POW camps were from “lack of food” (Uhl 1). The recommended daily

“Brother against brother.” This was the Civil War being summed up in just three words. Mike Wright wrote, “On both sides of the war, men and women were locked away in dark prisons or held in outdoor camps under blistering sun and freezing snow. They were fed too little and lived and died under primitive conditions.” One would arguably say that the Northern prisons might feel a little more at home than the Southern prisons, but this wasn’t the case at all, the prisons on each side were both poorly

The Civil War served as yet another reminder that although the US had successfully broken off away England, a long road still remained before total domestic unity. This war was bloody and it divided the nation, towns, and even families. With both sides fighting for their personal ideologies, this was more than a mere territorial war. Many aspects of this war will forever act as a blemish on our nation 's history. In this essay, we will explore one aspect; the camps that were used to contain the prisoners

Discuss how Japanese POW camps operated in regards to treatment and currency and how this impacted on prisoners. From the 1st of September, 1939 until the 2nd of September, 1945, World War Two had commenced. During this time, prisoners were taken captive by the Japanese Army and imprisoned in camps where conditions were ferocious. Those who survived these camps were named the Prisoners of War. These POWs required remarkable courage and hope to face the ‘…greatest crisis ever known…’ (www.loc.gov)

SUMMARY-In the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini fights as a bombardier in World War II. Louie ends up crashing one of his planes and is forced to face the brutal struggles of the ocean. Finding land after 47 days of being stranded, Louie becomes a prisoner of war to the Japanese. He is beaten, starved, and worked to near death where he learns how to survive anything that is thrown at him. He becomes resilient which is what led him to survive. THESIS-By describing every life or