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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"prisoners of war"”.
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The legal status of prisoners of war in Islamic law : assessment of its compatibility with the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war
Military confrontations in many parts of the world raise concerns regarding the treatment of prisoners of war. Whilst the regime of prisoners of war under international law is clearly codified in the 1949 Geneva Convention relating to the treatment of prisoners of war, questions arise, particularly …
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British attitudes towards German prisoners of war and their treatment: 1939-48
This thesis examines attitudes expressed towards German prisoners of war (POWs) and their treatment in Britain between 1939 and 1948. The original contribution of this thesis is to highlight the importance of British values, particularly the notion of fair-play, in public discussions of the …
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Vanishing Voices: The Impact of Life Behind the Barbed Wire on World War II Prisoners of War
… the lived experiences and interconnectedness of World War II prisoners of war (POWs). It is driven by the personal accounts of four men who experienced life on the wrong side of the barbed wire: my father, the late William Austin Burgess, formerly of Hinesville, Georgia; C. Neill Baylor, of …
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The Roots of Remembrance : Tracing the Memory Practices of the Children of Far East Prisoners of War
This thesis is about the children of former Far East prisoners of war (FEPOWs): their memories of childhood, how they fashioned those memories in adulthood, and the relationship between the two. The FEPOW experience reverberated through postwar family life, and continued to shape the lives of …
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Rotten to the Corps: Understanding the Human Rights Consequences of Military Failure Through the Eyes of Russian Prisoners of War
<p>The February 24th , 2022, Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent unresolved conflict it created has threatened the human rights of combatants and noncombatants alike on both sides, with discernable battlefield factors of Russia’s military failure contributing to human rights abuses and …
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An emergent paradigm for propaganda analysis resulting from a comparative study of the allied re-education projects with German prisoners of war
… conducted re-education projects with the German prisoners of war in their custody. This dissertation, by examining these Allied political re-education projects, develops the ground for a more comprehensive approach to the interpretive frameworks--the paradigms and perspectives--operating within …
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The Reluctant Sorority: Stories of American Wives of Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, 1965–1973. Lessons in Exercising Leadership in the Absence of Power
… via oral history data gathered from a group of military wives who had a significant impact in both the national and international policy arenas after their husbands became prisoners of war (POWs) or were declared missing in action (MIA) in North Vietnam between 1965 and 1973. Data from …
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A Catalyst for the Development of Human Rights: German Internment Practices in the First World War,1914-1929
This thesis is a transnational study of the military actions and responses related to prisoners of war in World War I. Building on the works human rights scholars, I explore the how the collective rights afforded to prisoners of war under the 1906 Geneva Convention and 1907 Hague Convention served …
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The Righteous, The Brave, and The Restless: The Experiences of Neil "Piffles" Taylor, his Fellow Canadian Pilots, and Prisoners-of-War in the First World War
The experiences of Canadian airmen who served in the British flying services during the First World War have received a very focused treatment from historians. The wartime letters and diary of Saskatchewan veteran Neil Taylor, who served in the Royal Flying Corps, allow for a more complete …
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Legal protection of humanitarian workers during a non-international armed conflict
… research paper focuses on the legal protection of humanitarian workers. It refers to the experience of governmental organizations with a humanitarian vocation, and international humanitarian organizations, such as, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), active in more than 80 …
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Assuming Rape: The Reproduction of Fear in American Military Female POWs
… assumption that United States female military Prisoners of War will be raped once captured or during captivity and the reproduction of this assumption, it is necessary to discuss the construction of the vulnerable woman and the forces that reproduce that image. It is also necessary to discuss …
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The Vietnam War and the press
… National Review) reported six different events of the Vietnam War. Chapter one will examine the publications’ coverage of the Tonkin Gulf incidents of August 1964 and the November 1965 Pleiku attack. The 1968 Tet offensive will be the concern of chapter two. Chapter three looks at how the six …
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The Western Front in the Backyard: The archaeological survey of Camp Howze, Texas
… States Army designated a 93 square mile area of Cooke County, Texas to become one of the first temporary wartime bases of World War II within the continental US. Operating from 1942 to 1946, Camp Howze was a training group for several hundred thousand military personnel, and a detainment …
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DETECTING DECEPTION IN THE WILDERNESS: A PROPOSAL OF WARFARE INTEGRATED LIE DETECTION SYSTEM (WILDS)
Currently, the Marine Corps and the Department of Defense do not leverage human-machine team pairing during the collection of human intelligence. Consequently, they may miss or not exploit key information gained from human sources during times of both peace and war. This research aims to examine …
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The administration and operation of German prisoner of war camps in the United States during World War II
The purpose of this study is to examine and evaluate the development of prisoner of war administration in the United States. No full account of this phase of World War II history exists. This study is an attempt to fill that gap.When the United States officially entered World War II in December, …
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