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
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
John Gonsalves had sent his letter from Bad Orb, Germany, a town near a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag IX B, that had been liberated by U.S. forces months earlier.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 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
