The Problem of Dehumanisation in the Light of Mieczysław Wallis' Intellectual Biography by Joanna Zegzuła-Nowak

“…During World War II the thinker was held captive in the German prisoner-of-war camps for about 5 years. However, he did not yield to the atmosphere of unrest and resignation, he did not immerse himself in the fear of long-lasting captivity, but he continued incessantly his scientific and didactic work. …”
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‘Japan Fight. Aboriginal People Fight. European People Fight’: Yolngu Stories from World War II by Noah Riseman

“…Abstract Did you know that a Bathurst Islander captured the first Japanese prisoner of war on Australian soil? Or that a crucifix saved the life of a crashed American pilot in the Gulf of Carpentaria? …”
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“Virtuous Hatred” of Oppressive Institutions: William Ray’s Republican Patriotism in His Account of the American-Tripolitan War (1808) by Lofti Ben Rejeb

“…Drawing on his personal experiences as a prisoner of war and as a marginalized citizen, Ray contrasts the oppressive practices of his own country with those of Tripolitan society to highlight systemic injustices and call for reform. …”
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Storytelling in prison: oral performance of a Gurkha prisoner of World War I by Alaka A Chudal

“…This paper briefly reviews the results of these scholarly activities regarding one Gurkha prisoner of war, Ait Singh Gurung, who was sent to Halbmondlager (Half Moon Camp). …”
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What Leonor López Left Unsaid by Marina S. Brownlee

“…After her traumatic losses as a prisoner of war, however, Leonor gains notable political power, rising to become the Queen Regent of Catalina de Lancaster. …”
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Wojna i zagłada: Odbicie doświadczeń z lat 1939–1945 w przedstawieniach i pisarstwie Erwina Axera by Rafał Węgrzyniak

“…After the insurgents’ defeat, together with the soldiers of the Home Army, he was taken to a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany, liberated by the US Army in May 1945. …”
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Prisonniers de Guerre aux Mains de Leur Puissance D’origine : Pour Une Application des Conventions de Genève Jusqu’à Leur « Libération et Rapatriement Définitifs » by Frédéric Gouin

“…This paper assumes that at least some of the persons detained within the framework of the global confrontation against terrorism should have been granted the status of prisoners of war. This raises the question of what should be happening to these prisoners of war once they are transferred to their country of origin. …”
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Strongyloides Hyperinfection in a Renal Transplant Patient: Always Be on the Lookout by Murtaza Mazhar, Ijlal Akbar Ali, Nelson Iván Agudelo Higuita

“…We present a case of a 71-year-old Vietnamese man with chronic kidney disease secondary to adult polycystic kidney disease. He had been a prisoner of war before undergoing a successful cadaveric renal transplant in the United States. …”
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Bitcoin – Its Economics for Financial Reporting by Tan, Boon Seng, Low, Kin Yew

“…An Economica paper by Radford (1945), which describes the use of cigarettes as commodity money in a prisoner of war camp alludes to this economic basis. This paper applies accounting principles to a practical issue and contributes to the process by which standard setters may issue an interpretation.…”
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War Memories and Peacebuilding in “From East Pakistan to Bangladesh” by Aalia Sohail Khan, Ghazala Tabbasum

“…The critical framework of Decolonizing Trauma Theory given by Rothberg (2009) was used in this qualitative study to explore how the writer, who not only fought in the civil war in Bangladesh but was also taken as a prisoner of war, moves beyond a cycle of retaliation to something more constructive. …”
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Critique of War Reason. A Perspective on Self-referential Systems, 11th-21st Centuries by Gorm Harste

“…Yet Luhmann (born 1927), who was a soldier and a prisoner of war from age 15-17, would not write a “Der Krieg der Gesellschaft”. …”
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The evidential value of dental calculus in the identification process by Dagmara Lisman, Joanna Drath, Grażyna Zielińska, Julia Zacharczuk, Jarosław Piątek, Thierry van de Wetering, Andrzej Ossowki

“…Teeth calculus was collected from skeletons exhumed between 2021 and 2022 by the PBGOT (Polish Genetic Database of Victims of Totalitarianism) team from the former Stalag IID prisoner-of-war camp in Stargard. Genetic analyses included the determination of autosomal and Y-STR markers. …”
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Revisiting the origins of the Sobemovirus genus: A case for ancient origins of plant viruses. by Mahan Ghafari, Merike Sõmera, Cecilia Sarmiento, Annette Niehl, Eugénie Hébrard, Theocharis Tsoleridis, Jonathan Ball, Benoît Moury, Philippe Lemey, Aris Katzourakis, Denis Fargette

“…A mechanistic evolutionary model, the Prisoner of War (PoW) model, has been proposed to address TDRP in viruses. …”
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Correspondence of Japanese War Prisoners in Camps of People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs-Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (1945-1956): Review of Domestic and Foreign... by S. V. Serebrennikov

“…The author pointed out that to date, despite the large number of scientific papers on Japanese prisoners of war, any work is not published devoted to the correspondence of the Japanese prisoners of war in camps in the Soviet Union. …”
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Gefallen - Gefangen - Begraben. Kriegsgräberstätten sowjetischer Kriegsgefangener seit 1945 by Nagel, Jens

“…Until the German reunification, public perception of the graves and cemeteries of Russian prisoners of war has been rather marginal in both German states, in Europe and in the Soviet Union. …”
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Soviet POWs in Wehrmacht Camps: Between Extermination, Forced Labour and Collaboration by Renata Kobylarz-Buła

“… This article reviews the current findings regarding the issue of Soviet prisoners of war held by the Wehrmacht. The author focuses on three main aspects of the Red Army soldiers’ captivity: extermination, mass labour and collaboration. …”
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Role of Manpower of Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps in the Third Reich Economy by Franciszek Piper

“…Although between May 1942 and May 1944 the total number of foreign labour and prisoners of war increased from 4.12 to 7.13 million, Germany did not achieve the prewar level of employment. …”
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Ч.Дашдаваагийн “Японы олзлогдогсод Монголд” номын шүүмж by Курас Л.В, Цыбенов Б.Д

“…English title: Book review of Ch.Dashdavaa’s “Japanese prisoners of war in Mongolia”…”
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One Page in the History of Starvation and Refeeding by George M. Weisz

“…The medical aspects of starvation were well established in the twentieth century, particularly following studies related to the 1943–1944 Bengal famine in India and starved prisoners of war and survivors of World War 2. The refeeding of the starved victims provided disappointing results. …”
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THE IMPERATIVE OF INSTITUTING A MILITARY OMBUDSMAN AND ITS POTENTIAL FRAMEWORKS by Олександр Пилипович Коваль

“…This can be done by introducing an appropriate legislative act and establishing an independent structure with expanded powers regarding veterans, prisoners of war and civilian hostages with its own financing and staff.…”
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