The Italian Approach to Prisoners of War

One of our listeners was wondering about the italian approach to prisoners of war, both the ones that a they took and italians who were captured by the austrians. Sige: The mentality was anyone who was taken prisoner was basically a deserter. And therefore, why should the italian stay ther to send you medicine or food if you were a traitor and a deserters? After caparatto e, i think it's about ac to 280 thousand, but peple uo say 300000. It several hundred thousand prisoners are capturedand taken off to camps,. mainly in austria, but some in germany as well.