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The commander of that camp was sentenced to 3+ years in prison after the war, and some of the inhuman behaviour mentioned in the wikipedia article was that inte
by microtherion 5y ago
The commander of that camp was sentenced to 3+ years in prison after the war, and some of the inhuman behaviour mentioned in the wikipedia article was that internees were held for 75 days without a proper trial. Meanwhile, the US is actively holding POWs without a trial for nearly 20 years: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-detainees.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-d... — and the idea of accountability for US law enforcement / detention officials is considered tantamount to treason.
As for "worse than a German POW camp", as claimed by some US sources in the wikipedia article... nope. Even disregarding the stark discrepancy between the treatment of western allied soldiers and Russian POWs in German camps (of the latter, more than half died in the camps, many murdered outright), treatment of Western POWs was not all that great. As disgraceful as the conditions at Wauwilermoos for escapees from other POW camps were, this is what could have faced them in a German camp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III_murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III_murders