The Prisoners of War were placed in hundreds of camps in towns all across the America. The prisoners had their own unique experience. Some of the Prisoners enjoyed their time in America. However, There were other prisoners who did not enjoy their time in America they were waiting for the day to come when they could return home to their families. During the wars in the United States, the prisoners who got sent to jail was treated differently by the gender. In other countries prisoners of war were treated differently they beared torture.
Sixteen million Americans served in world war II .After World War II ends, thousands of prisoners ended up in mills, farm fields etc. 4000,000 prisoners were shipped to United States from 1942 through …show more content…
With the shortage amount of labor, the Geneva convention protocols stated that the POWs could have been forced to work at the wages, but the authorities were afraid how the American people will react if they start paying the POWs wages, but eventually they put thousand of enemy prisoners to work, they assign a different task to Prisoners such as harvest wheat, pick asparagus etc. The authorities allowed prisoners to find a job wherever they can get and they can work under the security for the wages because of the labor shortage. People had different points of view on prisoners. The person named Kerr, Kerr was soldier in the war recalled that one of the prisoner was satisfied because he said it is better to work here because no one is shooting him, he does not have anything to scared of. The person named Keith buss stated that “Four POWs came to his house in search of a job on his family farm in 1943”. The prisoners built them a concrete garage, he said they nailed it, they did a good job and the garage is till up today but at the other hand, The camps for prisoner of wars were worst prisoners wanted to escape and go home due to the harsh situations. In 1942 four prisoners of wars tried to escape from the japanese prisoner of war camp. The japanese became so incensed, so they made every prisoner of war sign the agreement that they will not escape. Japanese did not gave water or food to fifteen thousand prisoner of wars for four days. After four …show more content…
The novel draws about his experience as a survivor of the bombing of dresden during world war II in the slaughterhouse five it took him 23 years. Slaughterhouse five work of literary fiction that combines historical, sociological, psychological, science-fiction, and biographical elements. Billy pilgrim the main character in the book slaughterhouse five experienced a lot of different emotions during his time in World war II. Billy described his time travel to different moments of his life such as going to future and coming back to past including his experience with dresden bombing. Billy was going through the post traumatic stress because of all the things happened to him in a war. (Slaughterhouse five pgs 57-66). The prisoners of wars were going through post traumatic stress and they just wanted to go home and at the other hand some soldiers waited to go home and they followed the rules and did the tasks that were given to
Sixteen million Americans served in world war II .After World War II ends, thousands of prisoners ended up in mills, farm fields etc. 4000,000 prisoners were shipped to United States from 1942 through …show more content…
With the shortage amount of labor, the Geneva convention protocols stated that the POWs could have been forced to work at the wages, but the authorities were afraid how the American people will react if they start paying the POWs wages, but eventually they put thousand of enemy prisoners to work, they assign a different task to Prisoners such as harvest wheat, pick asparagus etc. The authorities allowed prisoners to find a job wherever they can get and they can work under the security for the wages because of the labor shortage. People had different points of view on prisoners. The person named Kerr, Kerr was soldier in the war recalled that one of the prisoner was satisfied because he said it is better to work here because no one is shooting him, he does not have anything to scared of. The person named Keith buss stated that “Four POWs came to his house in search of a job on his family farm in 1943”. The prisoners built them a concrete garage, he said they nailed it, they did a good job and the garage is till up today but at the other hand, The camps for prisoner of wars were worst prisoners wanted to escape and go home due to the harsh situations. In 1942 four prisoners of wars tried to escape from the japanese prisoner of war camp. The japanese became so incensed, so they made every prisoner of war sign the agreement that they will not escape. Japanese did not gave water or food to fifteen thousand prisoner of wars for four days. After four …show more content…
The novel draws about his experience as a survivor of the bombing of dresden during world war II in the slaughterhouse five it took him 23 years. Slaughterhouse five work of literary fiction that combines historical, sociological, psychological, science-fiction, and biographical elements. Billy pilgrim the main character in the book slaughterhouse five experienced a lot of different emotions during his time in World war II. Billy described his time travel to different moments of his life such as going to future and coming back to past including his experience with dresden bombing. Billy was going through the post traumatic stress because of all the things happened to him in a war. (Slaughterhouse five pgs 57-66). The prisoners of wars were going through post traumatic stress and they just wanted to go home and at the other hand some soldiers waited to go home and they followed the rules and did the tasks that were given to