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persons; (2) that evacuations or transfers are effected with satisfactory conditions of hygiene,health, safety, and nutrition; and (3) that members of the same family are not separated. 24311.12.3.2 Transfer Prohibition Only Applicable to Protected Persons. Persons inoccupied territory who do not receive protected person status under the GC are not subject to thisprohibition on forcible transfers. 244 For example, POWs may be transferred from occupiedterritory to POW camps in the home territory of a belligerent. 245 Similarly, a person who is notentitled to protected person status, such as a national of a neutral or non-belligerent State whotravels to an occupied State to fight the Occupying Power, would not be covered by thisprohibition. 246 11.12.3.3 Notification of Transfers and Evacuations to the Protecting Power. TheProtecting Power shall be informed of any transfers and evacuations as soon as they have takenplace. 24711.12.3.4 Voluntary Transfers Not Prohibited. Only forcible transfers areprohibited; voluntary transfers from occupied territory, such as voluntary transfers of personsbelonging to a minority group that had been persecuted by the occupied State, would not beprohibited. 24811.12.4 General Prohibition Against Detaining Protected Persons in Dangerous Areas.The Occupying Power shall not detain protected persons in an area particularly exposed to thedangers of war unless the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand. 249243 GC art. 49 (“The Occupying Power undertaking such transfers or evacuations shall ensure, to the greatestpracticable extent, that proper accommodation is provided to receive the protected persons, that the removals areeffected in satisfactory conditions of hygiene, health, safety and nutrition, and that members of the same family arenot separated.”).244 Refer to § 10.3.2 (Persons Who Receive Protected Person Status Under the GC); § 10.3.3 (Categories ofNationals Specifically Excluded From the Definition of Protected Person Under the GC).245 Refer to § 9.11.3.3 (Location Outside the Theater of Military Operations).246 Refer to § 10.3.2.1 (“Find Themselves”).247 GC art. 49 (“The Protecting Power shall be informed of any transfers and evacuations as soon as they have takenplace.”). Consider AP I art. 78 (“Any such evacuation [of children] shall be supervised by the Protecting Power inagreement with the Parties concerned, namely the Party arranging the evacuation, the Party receiving the childrenand any Parties whose nationals are being evacuated.”).248 II-A FINAL RECORD OF THE DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE OF GENEVA OF 1949 827 (“Although there was generalunanimity in condemning such deportations as took place during the recent war, the phrase at the beginning ofArticle 45 caused some trouble in view of the difficulty in reconciling exactly the ideas expressed with the variousterms in French, English and Russian. In the end the Committee have decided on a wording which prohibitsindividual or mass forcible removals as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to anyother country, but which permits voluntary transfers.”). See also id. at 759 (“Mr. CLATTENBURG (United States ofAmerica) believed that the addition (suggested by the Soviet Delegation) of the words ‘any other transfer’ wouldhave hampered the evacuation of the religious and political minorities which the Allies, on entering Germany, haddiscovered in labour and concentration camps.”).249 GC art. 49 (“The Occupying Power shall not detain protected persons in an area particularly exposed to thedangers of war unless the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand.”). Consider AP I art.779