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Old 06-29-2009, 09:04 PM
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I like this list. I do believe that there will be many more camps than this, though. Soviet EPW will run well into the tens of thousands. One does not wish to concentrate too many EPW at one location. Bad juju.

Also, I think it's worth exploring the fate of Pact & Pact-Allied EPW after December 1996. I don't know the specifics about the Geneva Convention's requirements regarding capturing nation housing EPW, but I wonder if some hard-charging lawyer couldn't find a loophole to remove all Pact prisoners captured in East Germany during the Pact-West German stage of the conflict to North American camps. After all, it should be easy to find a continental climate in the US or Canada. Both nations are combatants as of the end of 1996. I'm sure all NATO parties involved would prefer to have as much distance as possible between Pact EPW and turf controlled by the Pact and its allies.

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