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prisoner-of-war camp
noun as in concentration camp
noun as in penal institution
Example Sentences
Sakamoto also acted in the film, portraying a World War II Japanese soldier who commands a prisoner-of-war camp.
You won’t find Charles featured on the website of Gordonstoun, the remote Scottish boarding school his father, Prince Philip, forced him to attend and which he once referred to as “Colditz in kilts,” referring to the prisoner-of-war camp run by the Nazis.
When she’d been captured by the Germans in September 1943, she’d been sent to an airmen’s prisoner-of-war camp in Poland, where she spent seven months with other Soviet pilots—as well as a Frenchman from the Normandie-Niemen Regiment.
He was captured near the end of the war and released from a U.S.-run prisoner-of-war camp in late July 1945.
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.
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