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The Confederate POW camp at Andersonville in Georgia was the most notorious.
The PoW (Prisoners of War) were kept either in PoW Camps or in some Concentration Camps such as Auschwitz.
4% of POW's in German camps about 5000 27% of POW's in Japanese camps about 125,000
POW camps for Communist (NVA/VC) Prisoners of War were operated by the South Vietnamese Government: See website: Prisoner-of-war Camps.
POW deaths in the US Civil War were high due to terrible sanitary practices and cruelty by camp officers on both sides. The worst camp was Andersonville, where thousands of Union prisoners died.It is estimated that the war caused 26,000 Confederate POW's to die and 30,000 Union soldiers died in Southern camps.
During the course of the US Civil War, many soldiers from both sides spent time in prisoner of war camps. It is estimated that 310,000 Confederate soldiers and 300,000 Union soldiers were prisoners of war. Some escaped and many Union soldiers were released by Union armies invading the South.
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McCain was a POW during the Vietnam war.
a POW is a prisoner of war.. The soldiers that were held in conentration camps and stuf like that
Many soldiers spent some time in prisoner of war camps during the US Civil War. Approximately 410,000 soldiers spent time in prison. Of these, 210,000 were Confederates, and 200,000 were Union soldiers. Approximately 56,000 in total died from disease in the prison camps. This was substantial and the figure is almost ten percent of all military deaths in the war.
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At POW camps in Japan.