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World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

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Allied prisoner-of-war camps during World War II

List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Australia This is a list of prisoner of war camps in Australia during World War II. During World War II many enemy aliens were interned in Australia under the ''National Security Act 1939''. Prisoners of war were also sent to Australia from other Allies of ...

List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Canada There were 40 known prisoner-of-war camps across Canada during World War II, although this number also includes internment camps that held Canadians of German and Japanese descent. Several reliable sources indicate that there were only 25 or 26 ...

List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps administered by France By the end and in the aftermath of World War II, POW camps administered by France existed in the territory of France and the zones of French occupation in Germany and in Austria.Bela TarczaiHungarian Prisoners of War in French Captivity 1945 ...

List of prisoner-of-war camps in Allied-occupied Germany Following is the list of 19 prisoner-of-war camps set up in Allied-occupied Germany at the end of World War II to hold the German prisoners of war in northwest Europe, Nazi German prisoners of war captured across Northwestern Europe by the A ...

List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Kenya British Prisoner of War Camps in East Africa during World War II ''Part of Lists of Prisoner-of-War Camps section in the Prisoner-of-war camp article.'' The following list is an attempt to create the most complete list of British POW Camps in ...

List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union The following is a list of prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union during World War II. The Soviet Union had not signed the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War (1929), Geneva convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War in 1929. Po ...

List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United Kingdom This is an incomplete list of Prisoner of War (POW) Camps located in the United Kingdom during World War II. German POWs in England were graded as follows: "Grade A (white) were considered anti-Nazi; Grade B (grey) had less clear feelings and we ...

List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostl ...

Axis prisoner-of-war camps during World War II

List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany For lists of German prisoner-of-war camps, see: * German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I * German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II Nazi Germany operated around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (german: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World Wa ...

List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...

List of Japanese hell ships A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...

List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Italy There were a number of Axis prisoner-of-war camps in Italy during World War II. The initials "P.G." denote ''Prigione di Guerra'' (Prison of War), often interchanged with the title ''Campo'' (field or military camp). The Italian Armistice, declar ...

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