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During major wars, armies will often capture numerous enemy soldiers. These enemies must be kept somewhere, preferably some place where they can not return to their fellows. This usually results in a Prisoner of War Camp. As soldiers on the battlefield, these two groups are enemies. For whatever reason, a group of soldiers has been captured by the very guys they were trying to kill just the day before. The camp guards will not like the prisoners because those same prisoners may have been responsible for the death and destruction visited upon their homeland. Typically, the guards will not be nice about the way they treat their prisoners.
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Since governments don't like having large numbers of 'potential enemies' running around loose in their back yard, something must be done about them. The answer to this problem is an internment camp. It's basically a POW camp for civilians. Since they are almost always run by the military, we can consider them to be closely related, and therefore included. The concentration camp is the evil twin to the internment camp. Its main objective is to contain political prisoners for either extermination or to keep them handily available for slave labor. While detainees at an internment camp are generally not mistreated, detainees at a concentration camp can expect nothing but constant pain and hunger or instant death at any moment. Any way you look at it, you don't want to be a resident of any of these. Unless you're a guard.
As a [[Sub
* Important to remember: the Geneva Conventions are treaties that set standards for how POWs are supposed to be treated. They haven't always been
The POW Camp as a setting is a major fixture of many war films as well as many TV Series. In many [[FPS]] games, the PC must rescue a fellow soldier from a POW Camp.
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=== [[Comic Books]] ===▼
▲== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Several issues of ''[[Jonah Hex]]'' deal with Jonah's experiences in the Union prison camp of Fort Charlotte during the [[American Civil War]].
=== Film ===
* ''[[The Bridge
* ''[[The Great Escape]]'' Dramatized account of a major breakout by mostly British prisoners from a German POW Camp.
* In ''[[The Good, the Bad
* ''[[Harts War]]'': Immediately after the start of the Battle Of The Bulge, Lt. Hart is sent to a camp where there is an escape attempt brewing. One prisoner murders another to keep him silent and Hart must conduct the court martial.
** Interestingly, the adjoining camp filled with Polish POWs is run more like a concentration camp, complete with prisoners not being fed and being forced to work in a nearby munitions factory.
* ''[[Stalag 17]]'' After a failed escape attempt, American prisoners suspect a traitor tipped off the Germans.
* ''Escape to Victory'' (''Victory'' in North America). Most of the movie takes place in a [[World War II]] Nazi POW camp, where a group of Allied prisoners train to play in a soccer game vs. a German team.
* ''[[
=== Literature ===
* ''Andersonville'' is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Andersonville prison.
* The beta plot of [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''[[Jack Ryan
* ''Red Cap'' is a [[Historical Fiction]] [[
=== Live Action TV ===
* The 1996 TV Movie ''Andersonville'', directed by John Frankenheimer, tells the story of the notorious Confederate prison camp.
* British series ''[[Colditz]]'' is about the German PoW camp of the same name. It is partly based on the film ''The Colditz Story'' which itself was based on a book by that name.
* ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' Comic misadventures of prisoners trying to disrupt the German war effort from right under their noses.
== Single Episodes of Live Action TV ==▼
* The ''[[Ripping Yarns]]'' episode, "Escape from Stalag Luft 112B" was set in a POW camp.
=== Western Animation ===
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': In the "Puppet Master" episode, Hama tells the gang how she, and the other water benders from the Southern Water Tribe, were rounded up and taken prisoner by the Fire Nation. There, they were kept in cages, with their hands shackled, so they couldn't bend. The warden even pumped in dry air as an added measure. And while they were given food and water, it was only enough to keep them alive, but just barely.
=== Video Games ===
* In ''[[Ace Combat 5 The Unsung War]]'', one of the missions revolves around storming an enemy POW camp to free your soldiers in the middle of a snowstorm.
* More than one game in the ''[[Call of Duty]]'' franchise have featured POW camps.
* The final level of ''[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream]]'' is set in a concentration camp.
* The aptly named cult classic 6th generation game ''[[Prisoner Of War]]'' was set in a POW camp, and cast the player as an American airman with the objective of escaping.
=== Works featuring the Concentration / Internment Camp: ===▼
* ''[[Band of Brothers (TV)|Band of Brothers]]'': Easy Company found and liberated a concentration camp in one episode. ▼
===Film===
* ''[[Empire of the Sun (
* ''[[Escape
* The end of ''The Hiding Place'' was set in a concentration camp. ▼
* ''Tenko'' is a BBC TV Series about an internment camp for women in the far east during the second world war. ▼
* ''[[Schindler's List]]'' shows glimpses of the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
=== Literature===
▲* The end of ''The Hiding Place'' was set in a concentration camp.
* ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]''. A man and his son are sent to a concentration camp, the father acting like it's all a game to hide the truth from his son.
* ''[[Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay]]'' They aren't inmates, though.
* ''Journey To Topaz'' follows one Japanese American family following the [[World War Two|attack on Pearl Harbor]] as they're sent to [
▲* ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]'': Easy Company found and liberated a concentration camp in one episode.
▲* ''Tenko'' is a BBC TV Series about an internment camp for women in the far east during the second world war.
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