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- Some 55,000 prisoners, many in critical condition because of a typhus epidemic, were found alive. More than 13,000 of them died from the effects of malnutrition or disease within 3 months of liberation.
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During the First World War, eight to nine million prisoners of war were held in prisoner-of-war camps, some of them at locations which were later the sites of Nazi camps, such as Theresienstadt and Mauthausen.
More than 120,000 Americans were held prisoner by the enemy during World War II. In order to pass the time and to make life easier, POWs used the scarce resources available to design and build practical and artistic pieces.
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One of the most widespread ways prisoners supported the war effort was by donating blood. Perhaps they couldn’t send their body to the front, but they could send their blood. The Ohio Penitentiary, it seems, held the record for most blood donations of any prison, at 10,000 pints. (Today, due to ethical concerns around consent, fears of infectious d...
Prisoners across the nation were being encouraged to buy war bonds, as seen in the Indiana Boy’s School Herald. The buying of war bonds is proudly announced across many different World War 2 era prison newspapers, at times taking on a competitive tone. “The U.S. Penitentiary at Lewisburg boasts of one inmate who has singly purchased $1,300 worth of...
For much of the 20th century, federal restrictions severely curtailed how prison-made goods could be used. The arguments against them were not necessarily based in ethical concerns for prisoners’ rights, but rather on the ways prison labor and goods had an innate, unfair advantage against the free market, chiefly that they didn’t have to pay wages....
The law that expressly prohibited anyone ever convicted of a felony from joined the Armed Forces was modified in 1940. After a good deal of bureaucratic maneuvering, by 1943, “prison draft boards” had been established and were busily evaluating incarcerated men for their fitness to serve. In Soonerlandout of the Oklahoma State Prison, Warden Fred H...
The preserved documents of the German Auschwitz camp SS administration show that a total number of nearly 1,600 Polish political prisoners, over 200 Czechs and a few prisoners of other nationalities, including Germans and Dutch were released.
Fifty kilometres (31 mi) southwest of Kraków, the site was first suggested in February 1940 as a quarantine camp for Polish prisoners by Arpad Wigand, the inspector of the Sicherheitspolizei (security police) and deputy of Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, the Higher SS and Police Leader for Silesia.
Numbers of general series of men and women were issued from the beginning of the camp operation (May 1940) until its evacuation (January 1945). The first 30 numbers were ascribed to criminal prisoners - Germans (BV category - Berufverbrecher), who arrived at the camp on 20 May 1940.
