In accordance with international law, the prisoners of war were paid a small wage for their labor. They were also afforded medical care, educational opportunities, recreational activities, and entertainment in the form of concerts and movies.
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As a reference book, Krammer crosses disciplinary boundaries with discussions of POW movies and novels, and he finishes the text with questions about the status or non-status of prisoners taken after 9/11/2001 (Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib), concluding that we need to revisit international law to give better protection to those captured in the asymmetrical fights of the present era.
In their negotiations with the Japanese through neutral channels, the Allied authorities never ceased trying to obtain from the full information concerning the Allied nationals in their hands, regular facilities for the sending of relief supplies and mail, and permission for neutral inspectors to visit prisoner-of-war and internment camps. In spite of repeated requests for the regular forwarding of complete lists, not only of captures but of transfers and casualties, the Japanese never appear to have set up an organisation capable of dealing even with the notifications of the capture of the 300,000 Allied nationals in their hands. The first British lists did not come through until May 1942; by January 1943 less than a quarter had been notified and by September 1943 only 65 per cent of the British prisoners of war and only 20 per cent of them civilians. On the average New Zealand page 351 next-of-kin waited 18 months for the first news of their prisoner or internee relative; the news even then was often only a card or a message over the Japanese-controlled radio. News of those held in the Dutch East Indies seems to have been withheld the longest.
In the prison camp and on the way to work, guarding the POWs was the responsibility of the Japanese Army soldiers and camp staff. Company guards were responsible for the POWs while they were at work. Sometimes those soldiers in charge of guarding the prisoners around the camp and the work site were dispatched from a nearby regiment or other units. Violence by the guards was often reported, and it was common to receive a Binta (strong slap on the face) or various kinds of beatings. Such beatings could result from simply offending the guard in some way. Punishments were severe even for slight infractions of the rules. Theft of food because of hunger was met with an especially terrible punishment. In addition to punching and slapping, the punishment could be meted out with a sword scabbard or the butt of a rifle. Sometimes POWs were forced to keep running, or to stand at attention for hours, or were kept standing with a bucket full of water on their head or were given the water punishment where a POW was forced to put his face under the flowing tap. Sometimes they were thrown into very small cells without food. POWs reported various atrocities of these types in their testimony before the War Tribunals after the war. The POWs who were accused of committing serious crimes or those who tried to escape were prosecuted at the Japanese Army Court Martial and sent to prison for Japanese criminals, many were executed in front of their fellow POWs.
First of all, not every movie that features a prison escape or escaped prisoners is a Prison Escape Movie. To be on this list, a movie must centrally feature the escape, both tonally and practically, emphasizing the conditions that create the need for the escape, the process of planning and strategizing the escape (including through teamwork), the actual escape, being on the run or pursued or recaptured, and/or a general atmosphere of fear, fascism, paranoia, and injustice.
Okay, so, technically in The Fugitive, the wrongfully-convicted Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) does not *break out of prison* so much as run away after several prisoners hijack their transport bus and attempt to escape, but the stakes are the same. Kimble is on death row for the murder of his wife, which he absolutely did not commit, and is determined to clear his name, running like hell and changing his identity and doing everything he can to avoid capture by the jeans-wearing human bloodhound of U.S. Marshall, Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones, in an incredibly well-deserved Oscar-winning performance). I love this movie so much. Sam Gerard may not care, but I do.
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In 1944, 76 allied prisoners at the Stalag Luft III camp, hailing from a variety of different countries, escaped from under the noses of the Germans through a tunnel they dug by hand. Sadly, nearly all of the escapees were eventually caught; 50 were executed and another 23 were returned to POW camps. Only three of the 76 men managed to escape successfully. 2ff7e9595c
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