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POW Camps: Prisoners Of War

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POW is short for Prisoners of War. It has been involved for both sides of the war, which are the Allied Power and Central Power. It has said that POW Camps are similar to an internment camp, but was used for civilians. POW Camps were mostly used for soldiers, sailors, marines, coast guards, and airmen, which were more recent than others, of an enemy power that were captured by their enemy after having a armed conflict with each other. Sometimes the camps aren’t that bad, but yet there were still some camps that weren’t that good. Some of the prisoners in these camps had the risk for starvation and disease. But mostly the Allied POW camps were better than other camps or they were all well with their Prisoners. The first six months of the …show more content…

The United States had the responsibility to act as the protecting power for British prisoners of war in Germany and Germans in the United Kingdom. Spain had the role to protecting power for French prisoners of war in Germany and for Ottoman prisoners of war in Russia. And later on, after the United States have entered the world war, Switzerland took on the role of protecting power for German prisoners in the United Kingdom. This was mostly the neutral states who took on this role of protecting power for particular prisoner nationalities at the outbreak of the conflict. This is mostly why the United States accepted responsibility to act as the protecting power for British and Germans, because the United States was neutral for a while until later …show more content…

Either way, both sides had prisoner labour, tried to make prisoners change sides, had bad camps, had a way to identify the prisoners, and so on. There were a lot of prisoners who came into these camps and soon manage to leave after the war or escaped somehow, or had help. The camps were mostly for to put the capture enemy somewhere and have help for some things that they are low on, like railroad building and so on. Death did happen from poor ways of living, from hungred, from the harassment towards them, from the cold, sickness, or from the hard labor their capture made them do. War is bad, but POW Camps are bad as well and both sides have been told that it is worse than war and has gotten worst for the camps that they might go to if they get capture. I don’t think it might not have been bad as war, but a close

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