prisoner-of-war camp
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“The Ukrainians could have killed us right there—no one would have known we were dead,” said Kudryashev, who is now in a Ukrainian prisoner-of-war camp, where he spoke with The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
He was captured near the end of the war and released from a U.S.-run prisoner-of-war camp in late July 1945.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 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
Prince Charles famously made his views clear on the school's austere approach, describing it as "Colditz in kilts", in a reference to the World War Two German prisoner-of-war camp.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2022
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
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