US Disposal of German Prisoners-of-War in World War II-Comment on“New Thinking about Prisoners of War”

At the early stage of joining in World War Ⅱ,US army transported German prisoners to prisonerof-war camps located in the United States.With the appearance of food shortage in Europe and the dramatic increase in the number of German prisoners in 1945,US chose to arrange for prisoners of war locally and set up camps in the open air.This transition derived from New Thinking about Prisoner of Warput forward by Eisenhower,which treated German prisoners imprisoned in Germany asDisarmed Enemy Forcesrather thanPrisoners of War.ThisNew Thinkingprovided an excuse to the transition of US disposal of German prisoners-of-war in April 1945.It evaded some related terms of The Geneva Conventions 1929 and it is a prelude to US unilateralist diplomacy.