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Major POW camps across the United States as of June 1944
Entrance to Camp Swift in Texas, August 1944

Members of the German military were interned as prisoners of war in the United States during World War I and World War II. In all, 425,000 German prisoners lived in 700 camps throughout the United States during World War II.

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German prisoners of war in the United States

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German prisoners of war in the United Kingdom

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German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union

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German prisoners of war in Azerbaijan

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German prisoners of war in Azerbaijan (German: Deutsche Kriegsgefangene in Aserbaidschan) are former servicemen of Nazi Germany captured by Soviet troops...

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German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war

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During World War II, Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) held by Nazi Germany and primarily in the custody of the German Army were starved and subjected to...

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German prisoners of war in northwest Europe

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Internment of German Americans

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German casualties in World War II

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Prisoners of war in the American Revolutionary War

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Political prisoners in the United States

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Prisoner of war

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United States war crimes

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United States in World War I

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The United States declared war on the German Empire on April 6, 1917, nearly three years after World War I started. A ceasefire and armistice were declared...

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World War I prisoners of war in Germany

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Prisoners of war in World War I

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held in prisoner-of-war camps during World War I. All nations pledged to follow the Hague Conventions on fair treatment of prisoners of war, and the survival...

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United States in the Korean War

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The military history of the United States during the Korean War began after the defeat of Japan by the Allied Powers in World War II. This brought an...

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French prisoners of war in World War II

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in Germany. Nevertheless, many prisoners remained in German captivity until the defeat of Germany in 1945. Prisoners who returned to France, either by...

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Geneva Conventions

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and Human Rights German Prisoners of War in the United States Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 – traditional rules on fighting wars Human rights Human...

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Treatment of prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, both Ukrainian and Russian/separatist prisoners of war have suffered several forms of abuse, such as mistreatment...

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Utah prisoner of war massacre

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United States in the Vietnam War

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Japanese prisoners of war in World War II

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Soviet prisoners of war in Finland

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prisoners of war in Finland during World War II were captured in two Soviet-Finnish conflicts of that period: the Winter War and the Continuation War...

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Forced labor of Germans after World War II

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Prisoner of War Medal

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The Prisoner of War Medal is a military award of the United States Armed Forces which was authorized by Congress and signed into law by President Ronald...

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List of wars involving the United States

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Persecution of black people in Nazi Germany

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