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myprojeff
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What is the difference between a 'captive' and 'prisoner of war'
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hotelend
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None that I know of. The two seem pretty synonymous. Captive sounds more primitive, while POW is a legal, western term, but that is just my 2 cents.
A confusion point that people often make (and this might apply here) is between an interned person and a POW. An enemy alien (such as a German businessman in America after Dec. 10, 1941) can be arrested and interned for the duration of the war as a potential threat. They aren't POWs, but are enemy aliens. I believe that they are protected by clauses in the prisoner conventions (Hague and/or Geneva). They are often exchanged through neutral nations. A prisoner of war, of course, is a member of the enemies armed forces who is captured. He is a military prisoner, and is kept in a military-run POW camp for the duration, and is protected by the Geneva and Hague conventions.
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Sweety
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Bud, I'm currently reading an interesting book on just this subject, 'A Prisoners Duty' by Robert C. Doyle (Naval Institute Press, 1997). My take on the distinction is that a prisioner of war is one who has been processed into his/her captives POW system as opposed to a captive is anything but.
Ken Weiler Sterling, Virginia
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