Freedom of this great nation has come with a payment, the payment came in the form of capturing men and women as hostages. While they were held hostage they were treated like animals, they either ended up dead or tormented in some cruel way. Is it hard to believe that freedom isn't free? People do not know what it’s like to have their freedom taken away from them, but these prisoners do. The things that prisoners of war went through, nobody would want to go through but they somehow found themselves fighting against the U.S , the treatment of these prisoners was very cruel. Americans have captured Prisoners Of War throughout the years. There were a lot of prisoners of war camps . These prisoners were regular people caught in the wrong situations.
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Andersonville was one of the worst prisoner camps during the Civil War. Andersonville was the most dangerous camp; it was hot and had the highest death rate. 13,000 soldiers died over a 14 month span. The prisoners were so hungry they ate mice and rats (Gast 1). At the start of the Civil War there was no such thing as a military prison code or code for treatment of Prisoners of War (Gast 1). “The rules of war dictated that enemy prisoners should be treated humanely, and both sides attempted to comply even though the transportation, care,and guarding of prisoners provided tremendous logistical challenges from the outset to armies that had enough trouble keeping their own troops fed and …show more content…
The japanese camp guards treated the prisoners terrible. Japanese prisoner of war camps had a lot of white prisoners.The majority of prisoners were put to work in mines, fields, shipyards and factories on a diet of about 600 calories a day. Harry Carver states"..I was - a white slave. I worked 12 hours a day on a diet of soya beans and seaweed." Most of them died from starvation, jobs they were assigned, punishment, and diseases that had not been cured.Prisoners that were in japanese camps were also found in other other countries such as Taiwan and Singapore. These camps were so heavily armed and secured, prisoners trying to escape was very rare. The prisoners were not given fatty food or protein very often. Most of the prisoner were served on green stew , they sometimes had meat and fish . People that worked for Red Cross distributed the food to the prisoners. The Geneva convention played apart in all the prisoners of war camps , it states the laws of humanitarians treatment of
Andersonville was one of the worst prisoner camps during the Civil War. Andersonville was the most dangerous camp; it was hot and had the highest death rate. 13,000 soldiers died over a 14 month span. The prisoners were so hungry they ate mice and rats (Gast 1). At the start of the Civil War there was no such thing as a military prison code or code for treatment of Prisoners of War (Gast 1). “The rules of war dictated that enemy prisoners should be treated humanely, and both sides attempted to comply even though the transportation, care,and guarding of prisoners provided tremendous logistical challenges from the outset to armies that had enough trouble keeping their own troops fed and …show more content…
The japanese camp guards treated the prisoners terrible. Japanese prisoner of war camps had a lot of white prisoners.The majority of prisoners were put to work in mines, fields, shipyards and factories on a diet of about 600 calories a day. Harry Carver states"..I was - a white slave. I worked 12 hours a day on a diet of soya beans and seaweed." Most of them died from starvation, jobs they were assigned, punishment, and diseases that had not been cured.Prisoners that were in japanese camps were also found in other other countries such as Taiwan and Singapore. These camps were so heavily armed and secured, prisoners trying to escape was very rare. The prisoners were not given fatty food or protein very often. Most of the prisoner were served on green stew , they sometimes had meat and fish . People that worked for Red Cross distributed the food to the prisoners. The Geneva convention played apart in all the prisoners of war camps , it states the laws of humanitarians treatment of