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It is not mandatory but is considered a courtesy. If you are working under a old fashioned camp commander, and you do not salute the high ranking POW officer, you may get a verbal reprimand stating about the great military values and traditions and how the enemy is not your personal enemy but a professional soldier, your brother in arms. However, if the enemy soldiers were notorious like the SS, there is normally no sympathy for them and they do not receive any respect. But, forces such as the Afrika Corps officers got salutes.

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