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This reference work examines internment, forced labor, and extermination during times of war and genocide during the 20th and 21st centuries, with focus on World War II and recent conflicts in the Middle East. It explores internment as a weapon and how it has led to crimes against humanity. Includes profiles of key atrocity perpetrators and curated and contextualized primary source documents. For students of global studies, history, and political science and general readers.

Prisoner-of-war camps --- Internment camps --- Military prisons --- Concentration camps

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"The stories in The Greatest Escapes of WWII highlight the courage, endurance, and ingenuity of Allied prisoners, chronicling their ceaseless efforts and the alarm that spread far and wide when one or more escaped"--Provided by publisher

World War, 1939-1945 --- Prisoner-of-war escapes --- Prisoner-of-war escapes --- Escaped prisoners of war --- Prisoners of war

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Throughout WWII, thousands of Allied prisoners dreamed of outwitting their captors and returning to war against the Axis. Their ingenuity knew no bounds: they went over the barbed wire surrounding them and under it as well; they built tunnels of enormous length and complexity, often working with only their bare hands. They concealed themselves in their captors' vehicles and hitched rides to freedom. They became world-class forgers and tailors; they stole anything that might be useful to their escapes that wasn't actually red-hot or nailed down. The stories in The Greatest Escapes of WWII highl

World War, 1939-1945 --- Prisoner-of-war escapes --- Escaped prisoners of war --- Prisoners of war --- Prisoners and prisons. --- History

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Ship captains --- Escaped prisoners of war --- Prisoners of war --- Exchange of prisoners of war --- POWs (Prisoners of war) --- War prisoners --- Prisoners --- Article 13 men (Escaped prisoners of war) --- Escaped POWs --- Escapees, Prisoner-of-war --- Escapers (Prisoners of war) --- POW escapees --- Prisoner-of-war escapees --- Ex-prisoners of war --- Prisoner-of-war escapes --- Lincoln, Abraham, --- Loring, Benjamin, --- Assassination. --- United States. --- U.S. Navy --- Officers --- Calcasieu River (La.) --- Louisiana --- United States --- Louisiana (Province) --- Louisiana (Territory) --- Louisiane --- État de Louisiane --- Léta de la Lwizyàn --- Lwizyàn --- State of Louisiana --- US-LA --- La. --- Louisianne --- Territory of Louisiana --- District of Louisiana --- West Florida --- Territory of Orleans --- History, Military --- History --- Campaigns. --- Prisoners and prisons. --- Prisoners, Exchange of --- Luisiana

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Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II. Located roughly eight miles east of Huntsville, Texas, in Walker County, the camp was built in 1942 and opened for prisoners the following year. The camp served as a model site for POW installations across the country and set a high standard for the treatment of prisoners. Between 1943 and 1945, the camp housed roughly 4,700 German POWs and experienced tense relations between incarcerated Nazi and anti-Nazi factions. Then, during the last months of the war, the American military selected Camp

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