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Treatment of World War II Prisoners of War: Japan vs. United States

The topic of POW's is a fascinating one that can be dealt with in various ways. First, one can gain information from primary sources from diaries and journals kept by POWs or their captors and guards. Second, there are secondary sources that can give general overviews of what treatment the POWs received. Another interesting thing in learning about POWs is to compare how the prisoners were supposed to be treated (in accordance with international law) and how they were actually treated. Another interesting viewpoint you can look at is to compare how countries treated prisoners differently, and subsequently, their reasoning to justify the treatment. The goal of the paper is to compare the differences in treatment of POWs between the United States and Japan during the Second World War. In my paper the treatment of American POWs by the Japanese with first-hand accounts from Manny Lawton's book Some Survived:......

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