• This list of prisoner-of-war escapes includes successful and unsuccessful attempts in chronological order, where possible. In the beginning of the war Hans...
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  • following is a list of historically infamous prison escapes, and of people who escaped multiple times: There have been many infamous escapes throughout history:...
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    A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage...
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    Internment camp List of prisoner-of-war escapes List of World War II POW camps Military prison Eden Camp Museum "Prisoner of war (POW)". Encyclopædia...
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    facility. List of prison escapes List of people who escaped multiple times from prison List of prisoner-of-war escapes Escape tunnel Rescue Prison escape "Chopper...
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  • camp Prisoner-of-war camp Prison escape List of prisoner-of-war escapes List of notable prisoners of war Prisoner of war mail Postal censorship Casualties...
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    Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp was a World War I prisoner-of-war camp for British and British Empire officers (Offizier Gefangenenlager) located in Holzminden...
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  • Mass escapes occur when 5 or more prisoners escape from a prison or prisoner-of-war camp at the same time. Most mass escapes occur after many months of careful...
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    The Prisoner of War Medal is a military award of the United States Armed Forces which was authorized by Congress and signed into law by President Ronald...
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  • 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...
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  • P.O.W.: Prisoners of War, released in Japan as Datsugoku -Prisoners of War- (脱獄 -Prisoners of War-, Prison Break: Prisoners of War), is a side-scrolling...
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  • Israel–Hamas war, a series of exchanges were made between Israel and Hamas to exchange militant-held hostages for Palestinian prisoners. The negotiations...
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    This is a list of famous prisoners of war (POWs) whose imprisonment attracted media attention, or who became well known afterwards. Contents A B C D E...
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    around 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps (German: Kriegsgefangenenlager) during World War II (1939-1945). Germany signed the Third Geneva Convention of 1929, which...
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    "Main Camp, Air, III"; SL III) was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the Second World War, which held captured Western Allied air force personnel...
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    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...
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    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...
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    The Utah prisoner of war massacre (headlined by Time as Midnight Massacre) took place after the end of World War II in Europe at midnight on July 8, 1945...
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  • Below is a list of attempts to escape from Oflag IV-C, the famous prisoner-of-war camp. Escape from Colditz Castle — Article about escape attempts from...
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  • This is a list of all inmates of the fictitious Wentworth Detention Centre in the television series Prisoner, known as Prisoner: Cell Block H in The United...
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  • 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...
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    Island Farm (category World War II prisoner-of-war camps in Wales)
    prisoner of war camp on the outskirts of the town of Bridgend, South Wales. It hosted a number of Axis prisoners, mainly German, and was the scene of...
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  • Prisoner of the Mountains (Russian: Кавказский пленник, Kavkazskiy plennik), also known as Prisoner of the Caucasus, is a 1996 Russian war drama film directed...
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    and electric fencing to prevent escapes. Even natural geographic features can play significant roles in preventing escapes; historically, mountains and islands...
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  • Members of the United States armed forces were held as prisoners of war (POWs) in significant numbers during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1973. Unlike...
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  • 80748 Prisoners made numerous attempts to escape from Oflag IV-C, one of the most famous German Army prisoner-of-war camps for officers in World War II....
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    of the German military were interned as prisoners of war in the United States during World War I and World War II. In all, 425,000 German prisoners lived...
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    World War I, German prisoner-of-war camps were run by the 25 Army Corps Districts into which Germany was divided. Around 2.4 million men were World War I...
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  • aircrew to adjust to life as a prisoner of war. Escape, which was regarded as an important duty of all prisoners of war of officer rank, was never far from...
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  • The Prisoner is a British television series created by and starring Patrick McGoohan, with possible contributions from George Markstein. McGoohan portrays...
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