• The Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees (Russian: Главное управление по делам военнопленных и интернированных НКВД/МВД СССР...
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    GUPVI. GUPVI (ГУПВИ) was the Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees (Главное управление по делам военнопленных и интернированных...
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    Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees Taxi to the Dark Side, a 2007 film about the 2002 killing of an Afghan...
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    responsibility for the detention of prisoners of war and all civilian internees were transferred to DOJ camps. Executive Order 9066 authorized the removal of all...
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  • Order 7161 (category Aftermath of World War II in Germany)
    taken up by its department of the Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees (Russian abbreviation: GUPVI). POW labor in the Soviet...
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    Katyn massacre (category World War II prisoner of war massacres by the Soviet Union)
    create the Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees to manage Polish prisoners. The NKVD took custody of Polish prisoners from the...
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    of prisoners of war), any military personnel captured on land or at sea by enemy troops were to be treated as prisoners of war and not punished for simply...
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    music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. One internee described a memorable concert in the mess hall packed with 2000 internees, with honored...
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    Josef Blösche (category German prisoners of war in World War II held by the Soviet Union)
    and became a prisoner of war of the Soviet Union. Blösche was sent to a camp administered by GUPVI (Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War...
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    to 600 prisoners. During World War II and after the Fall of Singapore, Changi Prison became notorious for its role as a prisoner-of-war camp for Allied...
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