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Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

It takes time to understand the difference between civilian POWs and military POWs. There's an educational process.

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

People just don't know what civilian prisoners of war are.

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.

Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.

It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.