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The prisoners, at first Soviet, after 1939 from Eastern Europe and after the end of the World War II the Japanese POWs, constituted a considerable part of the labor force which built factories, ports, and cities in the Far East from 1930 through 1940.
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State and federal approval of right to walk out at any time when so voted by 51 per cent of the prisoners.
Spencer's potential followers were openly sullen and morose, missing muster without excuse, expressing in ominous tones their displeasure at the prisoners being kept in irons, communicating with the three by glance and signal.
As reported in the Third Edition of Science and Sanity, The U. S. Army in World War II used Korzybski's system to treat battle fatigue in Europe with the supervision of Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, who went on to become the psychiatrist in charge of the Nazi prisoners at Nuremberg.
* 2004 – U. S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
As the numbers of settlers from the mainland increased ( at first mostly prisoners and involuntary indentured labourers, later purposely recruited farmers ), these indigenous people lost territory and numbers in the face of punitive expeditions by British troops, land encroachment and the effects of various epidemic diseases.
He found Christian prisoners from Germany in the heart of " Tartary " ( at Talas ), and was compelled to observe the ceremony of passing between two fires, as a bringer of gifts to a dead Khan, gifts which were of course treated by the Mongols as evidence of submission.
* 1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
* 1993 – 450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners ( for tuberculosis ) against their religious beliefs.
During the 1st World War British prisoners of war who had been captured at Gallipoli were housed here in an empty Armenian church at the foot of the rock.
In an advance of 65 miles ( 105 km ), captures were " estimated at at least 25, 000 prisoners and 260 guns.
Bodmin Gaol, operational for over 150 years but now a semi-ruin, was built in the late 18th century, and was the first British prison to hold prisoners in separate cells ( though often up to 10 at a time ) rather than communally.
Over fifty prisoners condemned at the Bodmin Assize Court were hanged at the prison.
On 12 June 1987, he was convicted of having ordered the murders of at least 20 prisoners and the arrest of the schoolchildren who were murdered.
Fewer than 5, 000 of the prisoners taken at Stalingrad survived captivity.
I personally saw this happen and about 100 prisoners were eaten at this place by the Japanese.
At the end of August the Assembly ordered Abancourt and the other prisoners at Orléans to be transferred to Paris with an escort commanded by Claude Fournier l ' Americain.
A Sandinista militiaman interviewed by The Guardian stated that Contra rebels committed these atrocities against Sandinista prisoners after a battle at a Sandinista rural outpost: " Rosa had her breasts cut off.
Guards stood watch at the quarry as the prisoners cut the rock into gravel and loaded it onto barges located at the base of the cliff atop the pass's waters.
No reference was made to whether prisoners were on board the aircraft at the time.
On May 14, following the arrival of 100 men recruited by Arnold's captains, and the arrival of a schooner and some bateaux that had been taken at Skenesboro, Arnold and 50 of his men sailed north to raid Fort St. John, on the Richelieu River downstream from the lake, where a small British warship was reported by the prisoners to be anchored.
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A good many pages of the first section are taken up with an account of the dogged determination of the prisoners to write to their wives and families -- even when it becomes clear that the Germans are simply allowing the letters to blow away in the wind.
At first, people indulge in fantasies, imagining the missing person's return, but then they start to feel like prisoners, drifting through life with nothing left but the past, since they do not know how long into the future their ordeal may last.
The United States Marshals Service is the agency component that first holds all federal prisoners.
The first members of the party drew heavily from the ranks of family members and defense lawyers of political prisoners as well as intellectuals and artists who had spent time abroad.
At first his treatment was poor, but Allen wrote a letter, ostensibly to the Continental Congress, describing his conditions and suggesting that Congress treat the prisoners it held the same way.
At first, only those freed prisoners who could raise the fare for their return passage to France were able to go home, so French Guiana was haunted after the official closing of the prisons by numerous freed convicts leading an aimless existence in the colony.
* 1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
This first statement of the previously uncodified rules and articles of war led to the first prosecution for war crimes — in the case of United States prisoners of war held in cruel and depraved conditions at Andersonville, Georgia, in which the Confederate commandant of that camp was tried and hanged, the only Confederate soldier to be punished by death in the aftermath of the entire Civil War.
Michigan ( 1975 ) was the first state to create a GBMI verdict, after two prisoners released after being found NGRI committed violent crimes within a year of release, one raping two women and the other killing his wife.
50 stills from the filming in Krün near Mittenwald were later found and from these, surviving prisoners were able to identify 29 camp inmates who worked for Riefenstahl and were then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the first weeks of March 1943 following Himmler ’ s December 1942 decree.
One of the new king ’ s first acts was to free some 8, 000 political prisoners and reduce the sentences of another 30, 000.
With writer Tom Pocock he was among the first British civilians to witness the horrors of the Nazi concentration camp at Belsen, where the remaining prisoners, too sick to be moved, were dying before his very eyes.
* 1940 – Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
The first Roman gladiators were prisoners of war and were named according to their ethnic roots such as Samnite, Thracian and the Gaul ( Gallus ).
At first, Ross and Cochrane refused to release Beanes, but relented after Key and Skinner showed them letters written by wounded British prisoners praising Beanes and other Americans for their kind treatment.
** WWII: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
* February 11 – Vietnam War: The first American prisoners of war are released from Vietnam.
** Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.
* February 25 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia ( the 500 prisoners had left Richmond, Virginia seven days before ).
** The first German prisoners of war return from the Soviet Union to West Germany.
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Of the millions who have served time in concentration camps in Siberia as political prisoners of the Soviet state, few emerge in the West to tell about it.
* 1943 – World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
* 1941 – World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300, 000 Soviet Red Army prisoners.
Others deported to Auschwitz included 150, 000 Poles, 23, 000 Roma and Sinti, 15, 000 Soviet prisoners of war, some 400 Jehovah's Witnesses and tens of thousands of people of diverse nationalities.
Auschwitz I served as the administrative center, and was the site of the deaths of roughly 70, 000 people, mostly ethnic Poles and Soviet prisoners of war.
During Barbarossa, massive encirclements netted nearly 3, 500, 000 Soviet prisoners along with masses of equipment.
However, sealed trains began carrying large numbers of prisoners to the Soviet Gulags.
While thousands of political prisoners and many dissidents were released in the spirit of glasnost, Gorbachev's original goal of using glasnost and perestroika to reform the Soviet Union was not achieved.
Even more broadly, " Gulag " has come to mean the Soviet repressive system itself, the set of procedures that prisoners once called the " meat-grinder ": the arrests, the interrogations, the transport in unheated cattle cars, the forced labor, the destruction of families, the years spent in exile, the early and unnecessary deaths.
In addition, 2. 8 million Soviet prisoners of war died of starvation, mistreatment, or executions in just eight months of 1941 – 42.
As many as 500, 000 Soviet prisoners of war died or were executed in Nazi concentration camps over the course of the war ; most of them were shot or gassed.
In the former Soviet Union, psychiatric hospitals were used as prisons in order to isolate political prisoners from the rest of society.
After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives also became available, containing official records of the execution of approximately 800, 000 prisoners under Stalin for either political or criminal offenses, around 1. 7 million deaths in the Gulags and some 390, 000 deaths during kulak forced resettlementwith a total of about 3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.
* Helped secure the release of the last German prisoners of war in 1955, ( see Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union ).
Category: World War II prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union
794 / B ) to Stalin in which he stated that the Polish prisoners of war kept at camps and prisons in western Belarus and Ukraine were enemies of the Soviet Union, and recommended their execution.
Within six months, the Soviet military had suffered 4. 3 million casualties and Germany had captured three million Soviet prisoners.
During the occupation of Kaunas and the rest of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, the fort was used as a prison and way-station for prisoners being transported to labour camps.
During the years of Soviet occupation, 1940-1941, the Ninth Fort was used by the NKVD to house political prisoners on their way to the labour camps in Siberia.
Typhus also killed numerous prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps and Soviet prisoner of war camps during World War II.
The German military used the Soviet Union's refusal to sign the Geneva Convention as a reason for not providing the necessities of life to Russian POWs ; and the Soviets similarly killed Axis prisoners or used them as slave labor.
As regards prisoners of war, both sides captured large numbers and had many die in captivity – one recent British figure says 3. 6 of 6 million Soviet POWs died in German camps, while 300, 000 of 3 million German POWs died in Soviet hands.
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