The prisoners in world battle 1 were treated goodly terrible the German soldiers. They were giving the prisoners biscuits and coffee. They were given three tins of pork, ¼ pound of tea, ¼ pound of coca, pounds of biscuits, two tins of cheeses or loaf goods, one tin of dripping, tins of milk, and 50 cigarettes. Germany despatched prisoners to small agricultures like mining and forestry. Capt. Campbell wrote a letter saying that he'll go back from the conflict. He almost clearly travelled through the netherlands then by using bat and teach to Gravesend in Kent, where he spent every week with his mom before returning to Germany. His mother died in February 1917. Mr. Van Emden said it changed into “surprising” that Capt. Campbell was now not
There are unexpected aspects of life in the camp depicted in “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlement” by Tadeusz Borowski. The prisoners were able to make very obvious improvements to their lived in the camp, without reaction by the SS officers; the market was even made with the support of the camp. The prisoners actually hoped for a transport of prisoners, so as to gain some supplies. The true nature of the camp is never forgotten, even in better moments at the camp.
In 1937, Japan started a war against China, in search of more resources to expand its empire. In 1941, during World War II, Japan attacked America which is when the Allies (Australia, Britain etc.) then declared war on Japan. Before long the Japanese started extending their territory closer and closer to Australia and started taking surrendering troops into concentration camps where they were starved, diseased and beaten. When they were captured, one survivor reports that they were told
What were the Japanese internment camps some might ask. The camps were caused by the attack of Pearl Harbor in 1942 by Japan. President Roosevelt signed a form to send all the Japanese into internment camps.(1) All the Japanese living along the coast were moved to other states like California, Idaho, Utah, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Arizona. The camps were located away from Japan and isolated so if a spy tried to communicate, word wouldn't get out. The camps were unfair to the Japanese but the US were trying to be cautious. Many even more than 66% or 2/3 of the Japanese-Americans sent to the internment camps in April of 1942 were born in the United States and many had never been to Japan. Their only crime was that they had Japanese ancestors and they were suspected of being spies to their homeland of Japan. Japanese-American World War I veterans that served for the United States were also sent to the internment camps.(2)
In Auschwitz October 9, 1943 Yom Kippur had started. As many prisoners decided whether or not to fast this year one prisoner in particular stood out to reporters.
Gresham M. Sykes describes the society of captives from the inmates’ point of view. Sykes acknowledges the fact that his observations are generalizations but he feels that most inmates can agree on feelings of deprivation and frustration. As he sketches the development of physical punishment towards psychological punishment, Sykes follows that both have an enormous effect on the inmate and do not differ greatly in their cruelty.
In document thirteen, we encounter a letter written by a young English soldier fighting the Germans from the woods. He starts his letter by explaining how once again he was forced to be out in the trenches for forty-eight consecutive hours. The letter, addressed to his parents, illustrates how devastating it can be for a young man out at war. When he asked for time alone they told him to take a group of men with him and after a bit of difficulty they finally let him go off on his own. While he is out on a stroll he comes across a German trench and kills an officer, he does the same thing the next day. By the end of the letter he simply defines the experience as awful.
“Concentration camps (Konzentrationslager; abbreviated as KL or KZ) were an integral feature of the regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).
Conditions in Japanese Prisoner of War Camps In World War II The Japanese viewed those who surrendered as inferior and subject to the mercy of their captures. Tojo, the Japanese war minister, informed the commandants of prisoners of war camps the Japanese government had not signed the Geneva Convention and they were not bound to it. The Japanese field code for soldiers required soldiers to commit suicide rather than surrender. Because of the time schedule set for conquest by Japanese high command, Japanese soldiers slaughtered surrendering Allied soldiers routinely.
Conditions deteriorated as the war came to an end. In 1861 and 1862, Confederate prisoners were allowed to buy extra food and clothing from sutlers or to receive these items from family members. In October 1863, Secretary Stanton instructed Commissary-General William Hoffman to notify all prisons that there would be no further exchanges. This resulted in prisoners’ rations being cut and the additional supplemental items not being available for the prisoners to buy from the sutlers. Packages from home were confiscated. Prisoners in the second part of the war experienced extreme hunger, disease, and suffering with no expectations of exchange or
Text Box: Henry Gregory of 119th Machine Gun Company was interviewed after the war about life in the trenches. “When we arrived in the trenches we got a shock when the other soldiers in the hut took their shirts off after tea.
The first time that confining large amounts of prisoners of war was dealt was during the American Civil War(Roberts, 12). Both the Union and the Confederacy had regulations that said the P.O.W.s had to be treated humanely, one of them saying that a wounded prisoner would be taken to the back of the army and be treated with the rest of the soldiers(14). There were also prisoner exchange regulations, where a captured general would be worth sixty privates or an equivalently ranked officer, and a colonel would be worth fifteen privates or an equivalently ranked officer, and so on(13). Also there were regulations on prisoner parole. The parole system said that the prisoner that was released was not allowed to return to the battle unless a prisoner of the other army was released to the army that had paroled the prisoner(14). This was all very confusing.
Kiersten Silva Gruesz writes, “...the commander of Andersonville prison, was tried and sentenced to death by a military commission that blamed him deliberately causing the sufferings there”. Commanders in charge of prisoners were put to death for running a military prison. This goes to show how bad treatment was for the prisoners, considering they were put to death for the way they acted around prisoners. Prisoners had been tortured being whipped, “tying on the spare wheel” which was when a prisoner’s arms and legs were stretched until there were three or four spokes between his hands, and many more horrifying treatments. Middle Tennessee State University also adds, “[S]oldiers’ other duties included taking care of livestock, serving on picket (guard) duty, and gathering and cutting wood”. Soldiers did have side duties other than fighting in the war, but were not treated poorly to do so. Jobs were monotonous and boring; therefore, safe for soldiers. In fact, they were put on guard duty to watch prisoners as a job as well as searching for extra supplies. Prisoners for sure had worse treatment from their superiors than soldiers did with their commanders due to the fact that soldiers could do what they wanted as long as they did their
Men were by far the most affected by the war, due to the Conscription Act that was passed in 1916. This included all men aged 18-40 who were able to fight against the triple Alliance. The number of volunteers were decreasing, because of circulating news reports of the horrifying experiences and the living conditions the men were expected to live in. War’s glamorous side was destroyed and replaced with fear. With Britain’s army diminishing, they had to bring in conscription to maintain the necessary numbers of troops. Not all men agreed with this measure and those who opposed conscription were known as conscientious objectors. These men were usually pacifists or highly religious individuals, who were treated like criminals by society; many were assaulted and publicly humiliated. These men were forced to take on jobs that aided the military. The men that refused this alternative to fighting were either sentenced to death or put in solitary confinement. This exhibits the extreme mea...
One other thing that is mentioned is how the soldiers dealt with having to tell these people this is your new neighborhood, these are your new neighbors, and this is your new living quarters. Sociologist, Don Eberson, who at the time worked at post as a War Relocation Authority said “But nothing mitigated the moment when I had to take them to their new homes...You’d have to take these people into this dingy excuse for a room...These were people who’d left everything behind, sometimes fine houses. I learned after the first day not to enter with the family, but to stand outside and wait.” he continues on with “It was too terrible to witness the pain in people’s faces, too shameful for them to be seen in this degrading situation,”(Oppenheim 49). This showed us that even though he believed that what he was doing was immoral or felt in any way that he was a hypocrite, he found a way to do
…..War was severe. We had no food for more than a day. It was very