prisoner-of-war camps
Wartime holding centers
Prisoner-of-war camps are facilities where captured enemy combatants are held during wartime.
Conditions vary enormously—from relatively humane detention following international conventions to sites of forced labor, starvation, and atrocity.
His grandfather spent three years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany.
The abbreviated form is POW camps.
- detaineesPeople held in custody
- escape attemptsEfforts to flee captivity
- tunnel escapeFlight via underground passage
- internmentWartime civilian imprisonment
- watchtowerElevated structure for surveillance
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Absence of constraint
liberation · release · liberty · civilian life · home
prisoner-of-war campsmilitary bases
Armed forces installations
garrison · training camps · headquarters · staging areas · barracks
prisoner-of-war campssafe haven
Protected place of shelter
sanctuary · refuge · neutral territory · demilitarized zones · peace
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