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• Prisoners of war in Islam — The rules and regulations concerning prisoners of war in Islam are covered in manuals of Islamic jurisprudence, based upon Islamic teachings, in both the Qur an and hadith. The historical legal principles governing the treatment of prisoners of… …   Wikipedia

• Prisoners of war, foreign —    During World War II, the Red Army captured more than 2.5 million Germans and Austrians and held them as prisoners of war. It also took 766,000 soldiers prisoner from the armies of Hitler’s Hungarian, Italian, and Romanian allies. Treatment of… …   Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

• Prisoners of War, Soviet —    The Wehrmacht captured more than 4.4 million Soviet forces, most in the dark days of 1941–1942. More than a million of these died of hunger and disease in 1941–1942. Joseph Stalin’s son Yakov, a junior officer, was captured and later killed… …   Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

• prisoners of war — captives in the hands of the enemy that were caught during wartime …   English contemporary dictionary

• World War I prisoners of war in Germany — The situation of World War I prisoners of war in Germany is an aspect of the conflict little covered by historical research. However, the number of soldiers imprisoned reached a little over seven million [Jochen Oltmer estimates a figure between… …   Wikipedia

• Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union — Over 60,000 Italian prisoners of war were taken captive by the Red Army in the Second World War. Almost all were captured during the decisive Soviet Operation Little Saturn offensive in December 1942 which annihilated the Italian Army in Russia ( …   Wikipedia

• Polish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union (after 1939) — As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. Thousands of them were executed; over 20,000 Polish military personnel and civilians perished in the Katyn …   Wikipedia

• Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union — There were two waves of the Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union during the World War II: POW of the Winter War (1939 1940) and prisoners of the Continuation War. [V. Galitsky (1997) Finnish Prisoners of War in NKVD Camps (1939 1953) ISBN …   Wikipedia

• Far East Prisoners of War — is a term used in the United Kingdom to describe former British and Commonwealth prisoners of war held in the Far East during the Second World War. The term is also used as the initialism FEPOW (spelled out when said, not pronounced as a word),… …   Wikipedia

• Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees — The Main Administration for Affairs of Prisoners of War and Internees (Russian: Главное управление по делам военнопленных и интернированных НКВД/МВД СССР, ГУПВИ, GUPVI) was a department of NKVD (later MVD) in charge of handling of foreign… …   Wikipedia

• Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union — By the end of World War II there were from 510,000 to 600,000Japanese POWs in the Soviet Union and Mongolia interned to work in labor camps. Of them, about 10% died, mostly during winter of 1945 1946. [… …   Wikipedia