1952 Inter-Camp P.O.W. Olympics

Mock event in the Korean War February 2019 1952 Inter-Camp P.O.W. Olympicszh-hans 1952年战俘营奥运会 Pyuktong, D.P.R.K.United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities Investigation of Communist Activities: (the Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case and Affiliates) Hearing https://books.google.com/books?id=jllbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3875 1955 U.S. Government Printing Office 3875– 15–27 November 1952 1952年战俘营奥运会 1952年戰俘營奧運會 1952 nián zhànfú yíng àoyùnhuì The 1952 Inter-Camp P.O.W. Olympics (1952年战俘营奥运会), also known as Inter-Camp POW Olympic Games,Elise Horspool.https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/the-reactionaries The "Reactionaries": Buck, Hollis, Madden, Parker and Gwyther 18 June 2020 Australian War Memorial was a mock Olympic Games held at the Pyuktong Prisoner-of-War Camp (碧潼战俘营)http://news.ifeng.com/a/20181226/60210322_0.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20190411143906/http://news.ifeng.com/a/20181226/60210322_0.shtml 1952年中国就办过一届特殊的"奥运会"，同样赢得世界的交口称赞 dead 2018-12-26 2019-04-11 Ifeng.com of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army during the Korean War. The athletes were all United Nations POWs. It was often used as a propaganda campaignCallum A MacDonald Korea: The War before Vietnam https://books.google.com/books?id=epuuCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA151 27 October 1986 Palgrave Macmillan 978-1-349-06332-1 151– by China and North Korea to encourage more UN soldiers to surrender. 1952 Inter-Camp P.O.W. Olympics was not authorized by the International Olympic Committee, but was organized by the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, in accordance with the Olympic Charter.http://dangshi.people.com.cn/n/2013/0308/c85037-20720003.html 鲜为人知：朝鲜战场 志愿军战俘营里的"奥运会" --党史频道-人民网 dangshi.people.com.cn 2019-04-11 The games The POW Olympics were held between 15–27 November 1952 at Pyuktong, D.P.R.K. The Chinese hoped to gain worldwide publicity and, whilst some prisoners refused to participate, over 500 prisoners of 11 nationalities took part.Adams, (2007), p. 62. They were representative of all the prison camps in North Korea July 2012 and competed in American football, baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball, track and field, soccer, gymnastics, and boxing. For the prisoners, this was an opportunity to meet with friends from other camps. They also acted as photographers, announcers and even reporters, who after each day's competition published a newsletter, the Olympic Roundup. Overall Result Team (Teams were arranged by Camp)http://www.koreanwaronline.com/history/POW_Olympics/pow/POW_Olympics_Names.htm POW Olympics Intro RedirectPage April 4, 2026 koreanwaronline.com https://web.archive.org/web/20250418133334/http://www.koreanwaronline.com/history/POW_Olympics/pow/POW_Olympics_Names.htm April 18, 2025 live 1st Camp 5 (Pyoktong, North Korea) 2nd Camp 1 (Changsong, North Korea) 3rd Camp 4 (Pyoktong, North Korea) Propaganda value The Olympics featured frequently in North Korean psychological warfare (PSYWAR) pamphlets and leaflets distributed to UN soldiers.Peace "magazine" (n.2), October 1952Propaganda leaflet, 1952 The 1952 Olympics allowed Communist forces to point to the good conditions available to those who surrendered.http://library.ndsu.edu/digital/files/2010/04/Themes-in-Korean-War.pdfFebruary 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes See also 1944 Summer Olympics during the Second World War at which prisoners of war from Oflag II-C staged a comparable unofficial Olympic games. References Bibliography Young Charles S. Name, Rank, and Serial Number: Exploiting Korean War POWs at Home and Abroad 2014 Oxford University Press New York 978-0-19-518348-1 Adams Clarence An American Dream: The Life of an African American soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China https://archive.org/details/americandream00clar registration 2007 University of Massachusetts Press Amherst 978-1-5584-9595-1 External links Scotland at War, including some artifacts and information from Scottish POWs at the 1952 Olympics Pictures and scans of the 1952 Olympic programme CBC: They chose China (English documentary, with Chinese subtitle) See also via Bilibili https://tv.cctv.com/2012/12/15/VIDA1355574945683278.shtml Prisoner of war camp without barbed wire(没有铁丝网的战俘营) China Central Television 2019-04-11 See also via Bilibili Category:Korean War Category:Korean War prisoners of war POW Olympics Category:November 1952 in Asia Category:Multi-sport events in North Korea