prisoner of war camp
Noun
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a camp for prisoners of war
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prisoner-of-war camp
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Cartoon by Whale of theatrical rehearsals in Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp World War I broke out in 1914.
The exercise places them in a ''resistance-training laboratory'' that is, essentially, a prisoner-of-war camp, with guard towers, barbed-wire fences, blindfolds, putrid food, irregular sleep intervals, abusive guards and brutal interrogations.
Once a plantation, the parkland was used as a prisoner-of-war camp for captured Union soldiers.
While in a temporary prisoner-of-war camp in Opatów, he was able to escape with the help of some old school friends from the time his family lived there in the early 1920s.
When news of Germany's surrender came, he was ushering German soldiers for transport to a prisoner-of-war camp.