[thatdewd]

Why would he lose his POW status?

Because he would just be a terrorist, like those guys at Gitmo.

[aristeides]

I don't think the fact that Skorzeny's SS folks in the Battle of the Bulge pretended to be Americans and thus forfeited their status as lawful combatants meant that regular German troops were not treated as lawful combatants and given POW status, even German officers in command who presumably knew about the conduct of Skorzeny's people.

The Germans sometimes talked of treating Allied "terror bombers" as terrorists, but I don't believe they ever did, officially, at least. Captured airmen were certainly kept as normal POWs in POW camps.

Same goes even for RAF personnel who had been flying in support of the resistance in occupied countries.

[Looking for Diogenes]

Some artciles in "Channel News Asia" address this topic.

"US weighed POW protections in releasing Saddam images: defence official" -

US promises to give Saddam Geneva Convention privileges