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[email protected] A STUDY OF PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE TWENTHIETH CENTURY by Victor Montejo © April 28, 1997 Submitted to the Committee on Undergraduate Honors of Baruch College of The City University of New York in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in History with Honors ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Status of prisoners of war in the Middle Ages Philosophical and Humanitarian opinions Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Emmerich de Vattel Red Cross and Francis Lieber Geneva Convention, Hague Convention and the Red Cross First World War Industrialization and modern warfare The European Front Russian treatment of prisoners of war German treatment of prisoners of war British treatment of prisoners of war The Pacific Front Japanese treatment of prisoners of war The Middle East British treatment of prisoners of war The Interwar years League of Nations Geneva Convention of 1929 The Spanish Civil War Conflict of Idealism; Fascism, Communism, and Democracy Second World War The Pacific Front Japanese treatment of prisoners of war Allied treatment of prisoners