I've used the "escaped POW" angle quite a bit in my Poland-based T2K PbP. It's probably the most convenient, logical, albeit a bit overused, way to add new NATO PCs to a campaign set behind enemy lines three months after the disaster at Kalisz.
Another gamer friend used a "liberated POW" angle to create a mixed nationality, pro-Ukrainian independence irregular combat unit. The Free Ukrainians liberated them from a Soviet POW camp, armed them, and sent them after their former captors.
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