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What (who) is prisoner of war - definition
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![Engraving of [[Nubia]]n prisoners, [[Abu Simbel]], Egypt, 13th century BC](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Abu-Simbel temple3.jpg?width=200 "Engraving of [[Nubia]]n prisoners, [[Abu Simbel]], Egypt, 13th century BC")
![21st Infantry Regiment]] bound and killed by North Koreans during the Korean War](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Americanexecuted1950korea.jpg?width=200 "21st Infantry Regiment]] bound and killed by North Koreans during the Korean War")
.jpg?width=200 "Jewish USSR POW captured by German Army, August 1941. At least 50,000 Jewish soldiers were executed after selection.")
![subhuman]]".<ref>Daniel Goldhagen, ''Hitler's Willing Executioners'' (p. 290)—"2.8 million young, healthy Soviet POWs" killed by the Germans, "mainly by starvation ... in less than eight months" of 1941–42, before "the decimation of Soviet POWs ... was stopped" and the Germans "began to use them as laborers".</ref>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B21845, Sowjetische Kriegsgefangene im Lager.jpg?width=200 "subhuman]]\".<ref>Daniel Goldhagen, ''Hitler's Willing Executioners'' (p. 290)—\"2.8 million young, healthy Soviet POWs\" killed by the Germans, \"mainly by starvation ... in less than eight months\" of 1941–42, before \"the decimation of Soviet POWs ... was stopped\" and the Germans \"began to use them as laborers\".</ref>")
![German POW at [[Stalingrad]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv Bild 183-E0406-0022-011, Russland, deutscher Kriegsgefangener.jpg?width=200 "German POW at [[Stalingrad]]")
![Naked Soviet prisoners of war in [[Mauthausen concentration camp]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv Bild 192-208, KZ Mauthausen, Sowjetische Kriegsgefangene.jpg?width=200 "Naked Soviet prisoners of war in [[Mauthausen concentration camp]]")
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![Mongol]] riders with prisoners, 14th century](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DiezAlbumsPrisoners.jpg?width=200 "Mongol]] riders with prisoners, 14th century")
![German soldiers captured by British in [[Flanders]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/German POWs captured in Flanders by Brits2.jpg?width=200 "German soldiers captured by British in [[Flanders]]")
![Casting the dice for life or death, by [[Jan van Huchtenburg]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Het dobbelspel om het leven Rijksmuseum SK-A-2675.jpeg?width=200 "Casting the dice for life or death, by [[Jan van Huchtenburg]]")
![Japanese illustration depicting the beheading of Chinese captives during the [[First Sino-Japanese War]] of 1894–5](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Illustration of the Decapitation of Violent Chinese Soldiers by Utagawa Kokunimasa 1894.png?width=200 "Japanese illustration depicting the beheading of Chinese captives during the [[First Sino-Japanese War]] of 1894–5")
![Katyn 1943 exhumation; photo by [[International Red Cross]] delegation](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katyń, ekshumacja ofiar.jpg?width=200 "Katyn 1943 exhumation; photo by [[International Red Cross]] delegation")
![A group of Japanese soldiers captured during the [[Battle of Okinawa]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/OkinawaJapanesePOW.jpg?width=200 "A group of Japanese soldiers captured during the [[Battle of Okinawa]]")
![Union]] prisoners of war on the way to [[Camp Ford]] prison in October 1864](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Price Raid (cropped).jpg?width=200 "Union]] prisoners of war on the way to [[Camp Ford]] prison in October 1864")
![Confederate]] POW camp, c. 1865](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prisoner of war, from Belle Isle, Richmond, at the U.S. General Hospital, Div. 1, Annapolis.jpg?width=200 "Confederate]] POW camp, c. 1865")
![[[Remagen]] open-field ''[[Rheinwiesenlager]]''<!--not a POW camp-->](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Remagen enclosure.jpg?width=200 "[[Remagen]] open-field ''[[Rheinwiesenlager]]''<!--not a POW camp-->")
.jpg?width=200 "German soldier of Infantry Regiment 120, POW 1 January 1918")
![James Pollock]] Vietnam War](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/VietnamCombatArtCATJamesPollockWaitingInterrogation.jpg?width=200 "James Pollock]] Vietnam War")
![Troops of the [[Suffolk Regiment]] surrendering to the Japanese, 1942](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bosbritsurrendergroup.jpg?width=200 "Troops of the [[Suffolk Regiment]] surrendering to the Japanese, 1942")
![Many US and Filipino POWs died on the [[Bataan Death March]], in May 1942](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/March of Death from Bataan to the prison camp - Dead soldiers.jpg?width=200 "Many US and Filipino POWs died on the [[Bataan Death March]], in May 1942")
![Water colour sketch of "Dusty" Rhodes by [[Ashley George Old]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait of "Dusty" Rhodes by Ashley George Old.jpg?width=200 "Water colour sketch of \"Dusty\" Rhodes by [[Ashley George Old]]")
![U.S. Army Nurses]] in [[Santo Tomas Internment Camp]], 1943](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Army nurses rescued from Santo Tomas 1945h.jpg?width=200 "U.S. Army Nurses]] in [[Santo Tomas Internment Camp]], 1943")
![U.S. Navy nurses]] rescued from Los Baños Internment Camp, March 1945](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Navy Nurses Rescued from Los Banos.jpg?width=200 "U.S. Navy nurses]] rescued from Los Baños Internment Camp, March 1945")
![Liberation of Hong Kong]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Canadian POWs at the Liberation of Hong Kong.gif?width=200 "Liberation of Hong Kong]]")
![Cabanatuan prison camp]], produced in 1946](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Giving a sick man a drink as US POWs of Japanese, Philippine Islands, Cabanatuan prison camp.jpg?width=200 "Cabanatuan prison camp]], produced in 1946")
![Australian POW [[Leonard Siffleet]] captured at New Guinea moments before his execution with a Japanese [[shin gunto]] sword in 1943.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LeonardGSiffleet.jpg?width=200 "Australian POW [[Leonard Siffleet]] captured at New Guinea moments before his execution with a Japanese [[shin gunto]] sword in 1943.")
Wikipedia
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A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610.
Belligerents hold prisoners of war in custody for a range of legitimate and illegitimate reasons, such as isolating them from the enemy combatants still in the field (releasing and repatriating them in an orderly manner after hostilities), demonstrating military victory, punishing them, prosecuting them for war crimes, exploiting them for their labour, recruiting or even conscripting them as their own combatants, collecting military and political intelligence from them, or indoctrinating them in new political or religious beliefs.
