how do WWII japenese POW camps compare to those in Germany?

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I have a project due and I need to compare POW camps in japanese to germany there similarities and differences... but I have only found one good website historyonthenet. but I need more sources. If you could compare those and list the website too that would be awesome.

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Well it depends on who was the prisoner. In Germany on the Western front the POW experience was not terribly bad. For most of the war the POWs were downed aviators who were treated OK. On the Eastern front there weren't many POW camps. They killed them or put them in forced labor camps. Most were worked to death.

Now, in the Pacific theater the prisoners were on the whole treated very badly. Death from disease, over work and malnutrition was common place.
 
Not really. The Germans treated Allied POW's (except for those pesky Russians) decently. On the other hand the Japanese were not know for being merciful. They thought that anyone that would surrender lost all respect and had no rights. (A simplistic answer but serviceable.) I guess one can compare the way the Germans treated the Russians with the way the Japanese treated all POW's
 
The Japs treated their POWs very poorly compared to the Germans (unless you were russian).
 
It is hard to compare one to another. I had an uncle captured in north africa during the initial invasion and spent 2 years in a pow camp. He said that things weren't bad at first. However once the Germans starting losing the war, they were fed less and less often and conditions worsened.

It is my understanding that things were different with the Japanese, who engaged in routine torture and abuse and purposely kept the prisoners underfed to make them weak.
 
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