world war 1
everything they are war heroes
yes
5%
The Geneva Convention is the meeting that set standards for how POWs were to be treated. The atrocities of World War II prompted the treaties agreed to in 1949 to include a clause for the humane way to fight a war.
world war 1
The Soviet Union (Russia) and Germany were the primary combatants in Europe during WWII. Quite possibly, the most POWs were taken on the Russian front. There was extreme hatred (a race war) for both sides on the Russian front; consequently, not many POWs survived from either side.
POW = prisoner of war. they were prisoners and as such didn't really have a leader. there were POWs on both sides
everything they are war heroes
A prisoner of war (POW, PoW, PW or PsW) is a combatant who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
They became POWs.
Because they surrendered.
They weren't put on trial.
CBS Reports - 1959 POWs Pawns of War - Part I was released on: USA: 22 June 1971
Rudolph Hess ~ see wikipedia article .
Almost all of them.
yes