prisoner-of-war camp
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Italian Gianni Cenni is a rare example of a western European in a Ukrainian prisoner-of-war camp.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
He deserted the army near the end of the war and spent months in an American prisoner-of-war camp before his release in June 1945.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022
Some of those released had been held on Russian territory and others in Olenivka, a prisoner-of-war camp in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine, he said.
From Reuters • Dec. 6, 2022
He was transferred to Stalag Luft I, a prisoner-of-war camp in northern Germany that would be his home for the next 18 months.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2021
During the war, the Alabaman fought in several major battles, was wounded at Gettysburg, successfully escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp, and worked for the Confederate Secret Service.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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