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To: TimF who wrote (125026)	7/13/2005 1:15:04 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 793866

Tim, I know that POW means "prisoner of war." My question was, which side? Do you mean Germans and Japanese we captured, or do you mean Americans they captured? If you mean Germans and Japanese we captured, yes, the laws of war did cover them. The US military is the oldest employer of lawyers in the country, since the Revolutionary War. One of the old treatises still in use is Grotius, 1814. constitution.org Google "laws of war". You might want to limit to "World War II". This subject on the PBS website looks helpful. "The 1899 Hague Convention's Annex devoted eighteen of its sixty articles to laying out the treatment and maintenance of prisoners of war." pbs.org I am sure Germany ratified that treaty, don't know about Japan. Edit: yes, Japan ratified it.

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