Prisoner-of-war camp
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A prisoner-of-war camp is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured as prisoners of war by a belligerent power in time of war.
North Korean and Chinese Communist prisoners assembled at the United Nations' prisoner-of-war camp at Busan during the Korean War in 1951
Union Army soldier on his release from a confederate prison around 1865
Bloemfontein concentration camp
A group of "red prisoners" at the prison camp of Dragsvik, Ekenäs in 1918 after the Finnish Civil War
Prisoner of war
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A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610.
Viet Cong soldiers carry an injured American POW, Captain David Earle Baker, from a hospital tent to a release point for a prisoner exchange. 27 June, 1972
Engraving of Nubian prisoners, Abu Simbel, Egypt, 13th century BC
Mongol riders with prisoners, 14th century
Aztec sacrifices, as depicted in the Codex Mendoza (c. 1541)