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“They brought with them seventeen American POWs who were secretly imprisoned in Villa Marista for advanced experiments with drugs.” It was hard to imagine…

— Nelson DeMille

American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing…

— Dana Rohrabacher

“At least 30,000, possibly more, German POWs may have died in French captivity, of starvation and malnutrition, of disease and neglect and mistreatment. Around…

— Frederick Taylor

“At last, somebody in line steps forward. “I can commit,” he says. He’s a tall, lean young man with a rifle slung over his…

— Summer Lane

It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the…

— Wilfred Burchett

“In spite of everything, all the POWs except for the Russians were receiving food parcels and medication from the International Red Cross. The Soviet…

— Anna Timofeeva-Egorova

“The organization of the camps in the east revealed a contempt for life, the life of Slavs and Asians and Jews anyway, that made…

— Timothy Snyder

“As the prisoners’ commanding officer and senior medical officer, Dorrigo Evans reported to Major Nakamura that four men had died the day before, two…

— Richard Flanagan

“The combat during the war was only a part of the horror. When soldiers came home, they were faced with new challenges, new fights…

— Helen Picca

Still I was concerned that politics would get between us and our POWs.

— Bo Gritz

“Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.

— John Yoo