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Colditz captives including (third left) the famous escapee Pat Reid.

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Ben McIntyre on Colditz: “The reality of Colditz is much more interesting than the black-and-white moral fable”

An Indian soldier, emaciated after internment by the Japanese, aboard the British hospital ship 'Oxfordshire' in 1945 (Keystone/Getty Images)

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The untold story of India’s WW2 prisoners of war

Italian prisoners of war being escorted under armed guard to work on a farm, September 1941. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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Prisoners of war in Britain during WW2: where were they held?

Prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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5 myths of the Second World War’s Great Escape

Australian PoWs in a camp at the Sumatran city of Pekanbaru, c1945. More than 80,000 forced labourers, including PoWs, died during the construction of Sumatran railway, most the victims of disease, starvation and maltreatment. (Photo by State Library of Victoria)

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The Sumatran Railway: the forgotten death railway

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Prisoners of war

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The British soldiers who fought for Germany in the world wars

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Death camp Britons

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Churchill’s tunnels, a 7th-century Qur’an manuscript and a PoW apology: this week’s history news round-up

A British major pictured in German captivity

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“How I fell captive to the Germans”: the experience of First World War PoWs

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Sexual relations with PoWs sparked fears of immorality

The prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III. Famous for being the location of the ‘Great Escape’, it was home to Ron Last for ten months. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The long road home

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