Japanese and most German prisoners remained confined to Allied camps. Many Italian prisoners were allowed out to work on farms in Britain and Australia and in many cases left the camps for the duration of the war. As for Allied prisoners in Axis hands, the Japanese and to a lesser extent the Germans required prisoners to work, in the case of the Japanese, often to death.
The Geneva convention prohibits torture of POWs.
Australian POWs were treated as appallingly as other whites in Japanese camps. They were used as slave labour.
Bataan Death March.
United Nations POWs were held in prison camps in North Korea. These were not subject to external scrutiny and there were many recorded instances of poor and brutal treatment.North Korean and Chinese POWs were held in South Korean prison camps. Those captured by other than the South Koreans (i.e. other UN countries) remained the responsibility of the capturing country, and these countries conducted monthly inspections of those POWs to ensure their well being.
Often, POWs would eat basic soups or porridges, with very little variation in diet, causing disease and illness.
At POW camps in Japan.
The Geneva convention prohibits torture of POWs.
In addition to the Jews, many Gypsies were killed. The Nazis also sent homosexuals, communists, pacifists and Jehovah's Witnesses to the concentration camps. They also killed handicapped people and later in the war some Allied PoWs and Catholic priests also ended up in the camps. Russian PoWs weren't generally sent to concentration camps but had camps separate to Allied PoWs and were very poorly treated and died in their thousands in captivity. Many of the people subjugated by the Nazis weren't sent to concentration camps but were rounded up to work in labour camps attached to German factories, and again, conditions in these camps and at the work-sites were atrocious so many slave workers died. These included Poles, Czechs and French.
Yes and they were raped by the bed intruder you can run and tell that, homeboy
Australian POWs were treated as appallingly as other whites in Japanese camps. They were used as slave labour.
an indication is the survival rate; for POW camps (for western POWs) the survival rate was about 96%, for the Holocaust the survival rate was less than 4%.
Begin your research with websites concerning WW2 POW camps. Go to www.mansell.com Extensive lists and rosters for Japanese POW Camps
Officers were seperated from enlisted personnel Army, Navy and Air Force had seperate camps as did the US/UK and Russians
Bataan Death March.
United Nations POWs were held in prison camps in North Korea. These were not subject to external scrutiny and there were many recorded instances of poor and brutal treatment.North Korean and Chinese POWs were held in South Korean prison camps. Those captured by other than the South Koreans (i.e. other UN countries) remained the responsibility of the capturing country, and these countries conducted monthly inspections of those POWs to ensure their well being.
Often, POWs would eat basic soups or porridges, with very little variation in diet, causing disease and illness.
Mainly Jewish people were putted into Auschwitz but some Soviet POWs, Poles and Romas(Gypsies) were also putted into the Auschwitz camps.