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[Captivity] Why does the Geneva Convention (whichever one it was) exempt imprisoned officers and only officers from manual labor? Is impersonating an officer for better treatment as a PoW known to have happened?

by /u/9XsOeLc0SdGjbqbedCnt in /r/AskHistorians

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