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@Anonimu To be honest, I don't understand the problem and I need more explanations. Why wouldn’t members of the Home Army captured during the war be considered prisoners of war? Marcelus (talk) 09:32, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Even today, after the 1949 Geneva Convention, there are several conditions for a captured fighter to be considered a POW. Before and during WW2, irregulars (including the Home Army) were not generally considered actual soldiers, and were not considered POWs when captured (even less so when the capturing party was also irregular). Thus, we need a reliable source designating them as such.Anonimu (talk) 09:51, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don’t fully understand why the legal definition of prisoners of war should be decisive. Following this line of reasoning, before the Hague Convention, we wouldn’t have been able to write about prisoners of war at all. Beyond any doubt, the fact remains that murdering captured soldiers from the opposing army qualifies as a war crime against prisoners. Marcelus (talk) 15:02, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Defining who is a prisoner of war and who is, effectively, a terrorist or criminal, has always been tricky. Where all members of Polish resistance soldiers entitled to protection according to laws of war? Perhaps, but then we can also talk about resistance use of child soldiers... it's a bit off topic, but it is good to find a source that talks about a particular group (here, Polish partisans) in the context of prisoners of war.
Partisans and resistance forces, technically not protected by the Geneva Convention, possessing less of a link with regular Allied forces, and having few prisoners of their own, were usually executed after interrogation or, in the latter part of the war, shipped to concentration camps as labor. ... Promises of humane treatment for the Polish Home Army after the Warsaw uprising in the autumn of 1944 were not fulfilled
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This is about the Germans, not Soviets; the point is that partisans were often less likely to be recognized as POWs, so w need better sources; just listing Soviet atrocities (or crimes) against partisans (Polish, Baltic, German...) would be less than ideal - although overall I agree this topic needs to be covered. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here04:03, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Looks great! Very good work, thank you. ꧁Zanahary꧂ 17:38, 27 October 2024 (UTC)