SUMMARY Earlier studies demonstrate psychological consequences of extraordinary physical and emotional hardships experienced by prisoners of war. In August 1990 first groupsor Iranian prisoners of war returned from their captivities in Iraq. We took the opportunity to study their psychological conditions during their stay in temporary placements. This report highlights the result of our findin...

We investigated the relationships between secondary traumatization, marital adjustment, and self-rated health among wives of former prisoners of war. Participants were Israeli wives of former prisoners of war (N = 116) and a matched control group of wives of combat veterans (N = 56). Wives of former prisoners of war reported worse self-rated health compared to the control group of wives of comb...

The Great War was the beginning of the settlement of the Russian population in the town of Bjelovar in war conditions, most often as prisoners of war directed to the treatment of the military or civilian hospital. Thus, in Bjelovar during the Great War died 71 members of the Russian people, principally the soldiers, prisoners. Some were later permanently inhabited, founded by his family and wor...

The First World War marked the shift from a 19th century, relatively ad hoc management of prisoners of war, to the 20th century’s sophisticated prisoner of war camp systems, with their bureaucratic management, rationalization of the labour use of prisoners, and complex modern logistical and security apparatuses. It also led to transnational, global systems of captivity. This article will assess...

BACKGROUND The present study aimed to determine the rate and cause of the mortality of the Iranian ex-prisoners of war in Iraqi detention camps during a ten- year period (1980 - 1990) according to the documented reports. METHODS The information extracted from the documented death certifications that have been provided by the Iraqi authorities and the Red Cross delegation. RESULTS At least a...

Of 898 former Far East prisoners of war, assessed between 1968 and 1981, 49 (5.5%) had evidence of persisting symptomatic neurological disease dating back to their periods of malnutrition in captivity. The commonest syndromes were peripheral neuropathy (often of "burning foot" type), optic atrophy, and sensori-neural deafness. Though nutritional neuropathies disappeared soon after release in mo...

this essay is about the iraqi nation involved in iran-iraq war and two iraq-america wars. the writer of this paper has done a wide field research among iraqi war prisoners in iran and among iraqi military refugees in other countries. he has used the statistical findings of this research to support his explanations. he has written about iraqi people motivations to take part in these wars. furthe...