Being captured by the losing side in an industrial age, continent-spanning war is a harrowing experience. Even with the best of intentions, huge numbers/proportions of prisoners will die from malnutrition, typhus, and the like without any ill will.
Bingo!
I guess allowing one's prisoners to " die from malnutrition, typhus, and the like"
doesn't constitute "ill will"????
Yes, you are confused.
World Wars don't come with Costco stores where camp commanders can tell the guards to "Buy in bulk and SAVE! (lives)"
Strategic bombing to deprive the enemy's military of supplies denies supplies the same to everyone else: civilian, prisoner, etc. Were all those B-17s somehow only bombing railroad track that transported military goods? And the naval blockades only denying food that would go to Axis military personnel?
The pig ignorance of basic realities never ceases to amaze me. Good will, bad will, doesn't much matter when the food doesn't exist or can't get there.
