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See the question: What did the soldiers in World War 2 eat?
Escaping POWs may have been shot, and it may be possible that individuals in the military could have allowed themselves excesses at times, but murdering EPWs wasn't an American practice.
POW = prisoner of war. they were prisoners and as such didn't really have a leader. there were POWs on both sides
Because they surrendered.
world war 1
Almost all of them.
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P.O.W stands for Prisoner of War. They were soldiers or airmen who were captured or surrendered.
See website: WW2 Casualties
See: Wikipedia World War II Casualties.
In World War 2 the varies armies took prisoners of war (POWs) when fighting their enemies and put them in POW camps. POWs in Germany in World War 2 included men from the Allied armed forces.
"Caught"? Do you mean Prisoners of War? Do you mean British POWs held in Italy?