Question

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Answer 1

Germany started the war by crossing into Poland through military conquest and hatred on the Allies after being blamed that they started World War One. Also, the Allies were the Great Britain, France, the United States and later the Soviet Union. The other side was Italy, Germany and Japan.

Answer 2

How did they get treated?

Terribly. They would be regularly beaten, verbally abused, starved, and more. Josef Mengele was notorious for performing horrific medical experiments on detainees, including children. He performed vivisection on many of his victims, usually without anesthesia, surgically removing body parts while the person was fully conscious. This type of experimentation and torture was not confined to Auschwitz, but seemed widespread throughout all the death camps.

By some twist of fate, allied Jewish POWs and other war prisoners appear to have not been subjected to the same treatment as the "undesirables" in Nazi occupied territories. POWs in Nazi prison camps appear to have been treated relatively well under the circumstances, or at least according to the Geneva conventions, unlike their counterparts who were detained in Japanese prison camps.