Chapter Four: Treatment of the Prisoners of War

   
     During World War II, prisoners' of war (POWs) treatment was suppose to be controlled by a document called the Geneva Convention. Geneva Convention was composed and signed in 1929 by major countries like Britain, Italy, the United States of America, and Germany. The German army treated their POWs in accordance to the document. They decided not to treat POWs badly because they wished to save their punishments for the Jews. From the picture above, one could observe that the POWs were in danger of nutrition. The Germans did not feed the POWs as much as they should have, but they did offer POWs, who had to work, compensation. All in all, an Allied soldier did not wish to be in the same situation as Billy Pilgrim, "And Billy and the rest were encouraged to shuffle around their dinky train and into the prison camp. There wasn't anything warm or lively to attract them- merely long, low, narrow sheds by the thousands, with no lights inside" (82).