About 130 POW camps were built in Japan during the war, and POWs were forced to toil in coal mines, factories and elsewhere. Many died of disease, starvation and violence.

By the following year, a number of huts had been built and the camp was ready to take its first PoWs from the Italian campaign. But by the end of 1943 the Italians were moved out to make way for ...

received at the hands of the Indian Army while they were imprisoned for nearly three years in POW camps spread over India, well away from the border with Pakistan. The POW camps were located across ...

A new documentary film investigates what triggered the doomed attempted escape of more than 1,000 Japanese prisoners of war from a POW camp in Cowra, Australia, during the Pacific War. Almost all ...

By the following year, a number of huts had been built and the camp was ready to take its first PoWs from the Italian campaign. But by the end of 1943 the Italians were moved out to make way for ...

This lack of manpower led to a World War II prisoner of war camp at Ryan Park in the Snowy Range of south-central Carbon County. R. R. Crow, the owner of the sawmill and logging operations in the ...

Originally a prisoner of war camp, Eden Camp was built on the outskirts of Malton, North Yorkshire, in early 1942 to accommodate POWs, the majority of whom were not Nazis but ordinary men ...

Originally a prisoner of war camp, Eden Camp was built on the outskirts of Malton, North Yorkshire, in early 1942 to accommodate POWs, the majority of whom were not Nazis but ordinary men conscripted ...