prisoner-of-war camp
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When a self-described patriotic, middle-aged Russian soldier was released from a prisoner-of-war camp in Ukraine earlier this year, he called his family to tell them he was alive, free and back on Russian soil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
Sakamoto also acted in the film, portraying a World War II Japanese soldier who commands a prisoner-of-war camp.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
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
In 1965 he starred as a conniving American corporal in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in “King Rat,” a grim survival drama based on a novel by James Clavell.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2021
Karl agreed, and he was sent to Czechoslovakia, where he was captured by the Soviet Russians and shipped to a prisoner-of-war camp in Siberia.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
