Prisoner of War Convention

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• Prisoner of war — POW redirects here. For other uses, see POW (disambiguation). A prisoner of war (POW, PoW, PW, P/W, WP, PsW) or enemy prisoner of war (EPW) is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately …   Wikipedia

• prisoner of war — a person who is captured and held by an enemy during war, esp. a member of the armed forces. Abbr.: POW [1670 80] * * * ▪ international law       (pow, or Pw), any person captured or interned by a belligerent power during war. In the strictest… …   Universalium

• Prisoner-of-war camp — A prisoner of war camp is a site for the containment of enemy combatants captured by the enemy in time of war, and is similar to an internment camp which is used for civilian populations. A prisoner of war is generally a soldier, sailor, or… …   Wikipedia

• prisoner of war personnel record — A form for recording the photograph, fingerprints, and other pertinent personal data concerning the prisoner of war, including that required by the Geneva Convention …   Military dictionary

• prisoner of war — A detained person as defined in Articles 4 and 5 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949. In particular, one who, while engaged in combat under orders of his or her government, is captured by the… …   Military dictionary

• List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany — Part of Lists of Prisoner of War Camps section in the Prisoner of war camp article. This article is a list of prisoner of war camps in Germany (and in German occupied territory) during any conflict. These are the camps that housed captured… …   Wikipedia

• Featherston prisoner of war camp — was a camp for captured Japanese soldiers during World War II at Featherston, New Zealand. It had been established during World War I as the largest military training camp in New Zealand. At the request of the United States, in September 1942 it… …   Wikipedia

• War crimes of the Wehrmacht — are those carried out by traditional German armed forces during World War II. While the principal perpetrators of the Holocaust amongst German armed forces were the Nazi German political armies (the SS Totenkopfverbände and particularly the… …   Wikipedia

• war crime — war criminal. Usually, war crimes. crimes committed against an enemy, prisoners of war, or subjects in wartime that violate international agreements or, as in the case of genocide, are offenses against humanity. [1940 45] * * * Any violation of… …   Universalium

• War crime — War crimes are violations of the laws or customs of war , including but not limited to murder, the ill treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps , the murder or ill treatment of prisoners of war …   Wikipedia

• war, law of — Introduction       that part of international law dealing with the inception, conduct, and termination of warfare. Its aim is to limit the suffering caused to combatants and, more particularly, to those who may be described as the victims of war… …   Universalium