prisoner-of-war camp
Enemy detention site
A prisoner-of-war camp is a facility where captured enemy combatants are held during armed conflict.
Conditions vary widely—from camps following international conventions on humane treatment to brutal detention sites.
The term often evokes World War II imagery: His grandfather spent two years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany.
Sometimes shortened to POW camp.
- POW campDetention site for captured soldiers
- barbed wireSpiked metal fence material
- escape tunnelHidden route for fleeing
- penal colonyDistant settlement for exiled criminals
- stockadeFence of sharpened stakes
camp commandant · concentration camp · jail · Geneva Convention · internment · cell · death camp · brig · war crimes tribunal · warden · repatriation · Red Cross · dog tags · missing in action · detention camp · guardhouse · forced marches · Leavenworth
prisoner-of-war campfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · home · free world · civilian life · liberation
prisoner-of-war campmilitary base
Armed forces facility
army barracks · garrison · forward operating base · headquarters · training camp
prisoner-of-war camprefugee camp
Shelter site for displaced foreigners
safe haven · asylum · shelter · humanitarian corridor · evacuation center
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