How were POW’s in WW2 getting mail?

Question

In the show “Masters of the Air” they show the American POW’s getting mail in the POW camp. Were both sides really civil enough to allow mail to be transferred to prisoners?

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Answer 1

Geneva Convention 3180 Article 71(1) concerns correspondence to and from prisoners of war. It imposes an obligation on the Detaining Power to allow prisoners of war to send and receive letters and cards, addresses possible limits on the number of such letters and cards and regulates how they are to be transmitted.