Looking for Geneva Convention Reference

[Webstral]

I'm working on a piece on the presence of Pact and Pact allied soldiers in SAMAD based on their having been EPW. I know that a lot of Germans were housed in Texas during WW2 because EPW are supposed to be kept in a climate as similar as possible to the climate where they were captured. I can't find the specific reference in the Geneva Convention, though. Does anybody have sufficient familiarity to point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

[cavtroop]

You're looking for the Third Geneva Convention. Full .pdf here:

http://www.mineaction.org/downloads/...tion%20III.pdf

Skimming through, I can find nothing saying that prisoners of war have to be interred in a climate similar to where they were taken, just that

Clothing, underwear and footwear shall be
supplied to prisoners of war in sufficient
quantities by the Detaining Power, which
shall make allowance for the climate of the
region where the prisoners are detained.

and

Prisoners of war interned in unhealthy areas,
or where the climate is injurious for them,
shall be removed as soon as possible to a
more favourable climate

[Webstral]

Thanks, Cavtroop. I saw those, but as you have implied those two quotes don't address the issue of climate similarity. Certainly, my job explaining how 22 different nationalities/languages end up at Huachuca will be much easier if I don't have any climate restrictions in place. After all, it's hard to find an analog for North Korea anywhere in Arizona below 10,000 feet [elevation].

[Raellus]

I've never heard reference to climate restrictions for EPW placement in the Geneva convention (this, of course, does not mean that there are none). It just seems like something that I would have come across over the years in my forays into military history. A lot of German troops captured in Italy & France were held in the American Old South- a very different climate than western/central Europe.

[cavtroop]

Originally Posted by Webstral

Thanks, Cavtroop. I saw those, but as you have implied those two quotes don't address the issue of climate similarity. Certainly, my job explaining how 22 different nationalities/languages end up at Huachuca will be much easier if I don't have any climate restrictions in place. After all, it's hard to find an analog for North Korea anywhere in Arizona below 10,000 feet [elevation].

yeah, I've been poking around this afternoon, and can find nothing that says they have to be held in a similar climate.

of course, you could also say that due to the circumstances after the TDM, they POWs are lucky they're being treated by any of the rules of the Geneva Conventions

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by cavtroop

POWs are lucky they're being treated by any of the rules of the Geneva Conventions

....or even if there are any POW's still breathing....

[Webstral]

Originally Posted by Raellus

A lot of German troops captured in Italy & France were held in the American Old South- a very different climate than western/central Europe.

Germans taken in North Africa were kept in West Texas. Still, I don't know if that means all Germans taken in North Africa or some Germans.

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

....or even if there are any POW's still breathing....

Certainly, a lot of them are going to be taken out behind the tool shed and shot in the back of the head, figuratively speaking. I believe there was a long thread on this subject within the past couple of months. At any rate, I’m following up on the different option pursued by Fort Huachuca. Now that I’m thinking about it, though, the addition of some former EPW to the Shogun’s army in Nevada would living things up a bit.