POW camp
Wartime holding facility
A POW camp is a facility where prisoners of war are held during armed conflict.
The abbreviation stands for "prisoner of war." Conditions range from humane detention under international law to brutal forced labor, depending on the captor nation and era: His grandfather spent two years in a POW camp after his plane was shot down.
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
- fenceBoundary structure between properties
- Hogan's HeroesWWII prisoner comedy series
- Geneva ConventionWartime humanitarian law treaties
- AndersonvilleCivil War prison camp
stalag · detention · guard · war · forced labor · guard towers · barbed wire · gate · escape attempts · confinement · enemy · World War II · bunks · barracks life · soldier · combat · comrade · rations
- wartimerationing, war economy, war bonds, war effort, evacuations
- campstent, tents, shelters, campsite, campground
- confinementcell, cage, prison, jail, imprisonment
- imprisonmentprison, jail, prisoners, cells, dungeons
- detention facilitiesjail, prison, cells, holding cell, inmates
- military prisonsmilitary prison, military brig, brig, stockade, Leavenworth
POW campfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · home · liberation · civilian life · open country
POW campmilitary base
Armed forces facility
army barracks · home front · garrison · boot camp · forward operating base
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