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    A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage...
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    A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured as prisoners of war by a belligerent power...
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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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    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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    of the Civil War through to 1863 a parole exchange system saw most prisoners of war swapped relatively quickly. However, from 1863 this broke down following...
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  • For lists of German prisoner-of-war camps, see: German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II This article...
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  • with Soviet prisoners of war. Camps for Russian prisoners and internees in Poland (1919–24) Soviet prisoners of war in Finland during World War II (1939–45)...
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  • Look up prisoner of war in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A prisoner of war is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody...
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  • Prisoner of War is a 2002 third-person stealth video game developed by Wide Games and published by Codemasters. It follows the story of Captain Lewis...
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  • Members of the United States armed forces were held as prisoners of war (POWs) in significant numbers during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973. Unlike...
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