Definitions for prisoner of war camp
pris·oner of war camp

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. prison camp, internment camp, prisoner of war camp, POW campnoun

   a camp for prisoners of war

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1. prisoner of war camp

   A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured by a belligerent power in time of war. There are significant differences among POW camps, internment camps, and military prisons. Purpose-built prisoner-of-war camps appeared at Norman Cross in England in 1797 during the French Revolutionary Wars and HM Prison Dartmoor, constructed during the Napoleonic Wars, and they have been in use in all the main conflicts of the last 200 years. The main camps are used for marines, sailors, soldiers, and more recently, airmen of an enemy power who have been captured by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. Civilians, such as merchant mariners and war correspondents, have also been imprisoned in some conflicts. With the adoption of the Geneva Convention on the Prisoners of War in 1929, later superseded by the Third Geneva Convention, prisoner-of-war camps have been required to be open to inspection by authorized representatives of a neutral power. Not all belligerents have consistently applied the convention in all conflicts.

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1. prisoner of war camp

   A prisoner of war camp is a detention facility where soldiers, sailors, airmen, and other combatants captured by the enemy during wartime are held captive. These camps are meant to confine and often impose hard conditions on prisoners, however they are obligated under the Geneva Conventions to meet certain standards of treatment. The conditions, operations and existence of these camps are often subject to international law and scrutiny.

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. prisoner of war camp

   An installation established for the internment and administration of prisoners of war.

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How to pronounce prisoner of war camp?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of prisoner of war camp in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of prisoner of war camp in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of prisoner of war camp in a Sentence

1. Rod Blagojevich:

   [Radislav Blagojevich] spent four years in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during the war for fighting on the side of the Allies, and then was in a refugee camp for three years, waiting for the chance to hopefully have the United States Congress-- that one day, his youngest son would become a member of-- pass a law called the Displaced Persons Act, that permitted my father and millions of others like him, with these long and hard-to-pronounce last names a chance to come to America, to pursue freedom and opportunity.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=prisoner of war camp
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_War_Camp
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf