Table of Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgements x
List of Abbreviations xii
Editors' Introduction. Prisoners of War in the Twentieth Century: A Problematic at the Crossroads of Histories and Disciplines Anne-Marie Pathé Fabien Théofilakis 1
Introduction Wartime Imprisonment in the Twentieth Century John Home 13
Part I Camp Systems, International Law And Humanitarian Action
Introduction Jörg Echternkamp 25
Chapter 1 International Law and Western Front Prisoners in the First World War Heather Jones 30
Chapter 2 German Treatment of Jewish Prisoners of War in the Second World War Rudiger Overmans 45
Chapter 3 'All Things Are Possible For Him Who Believes' (Mark 9:23): The Regulation of Religious Life in Prisoner of War Camps in the Second World War Delphiue Debons 54
Chapter 4 From Allies to Enemies: Prisoners of the Third Reich in Italy - The Case of the Rimini Enclave, 1945-1947 Patrizia Dogliani 65
Chapter 5 The Other Point of View… The Lawyer Jean-Paul Pancracio 74
Part II Languages of Captivity: Bodies and Minds Behind the Barbed Wire
Introduction Annette Becker 79
Chapter 6 Liminality and Transgression: Breaching Social Boundaries in First World War Internment Camps Iris Rachamimov 84
Chapter 7 Half-naked Nazis: Masculinity and Gender in German POW Camps in the United States during tine Second World War Matthias Reiss 95
Chapter 8 Fernand Braudel as Prisoner in Germany: Confronting the Long Term and the Present Time Peter Schöttler 103
Chapter 9 'The Trio is Growing like a Piece of Asparagus': Hans Gál and the Trio of the 'Huyton Suite' Suzanne Snizek 115
Chapter 10 The Other Point of View… The Ethnologist. The Internment of Spanish Republicans in French Camps: The Ethnologist Caught in the Net of Memory Véroniqite Moulinié 127
Part III Relations Between Captivity and Society: From Capture to Liberation
Introduction Beyond the Wire: Interactions between Prison Camps and their Surrounding Communities Felicia Yap 137
Chapter 11 Perceptions of Axis Captives in the British Isles, 1939-1948 Bob Moore 141
Chapter 12 'Voluntary' Captivity: Russian Prisoners of War in Switzerland, 1942-1945 Georg Kreis 153
Chapter 13 'Rodolph - How Nice He Is!' Contact between German Prisoners of War and French Civilians, 1944-1948 Fabien Théofilakis 163
Chapter 14 The Other Point of View… The Sociologist. The Boundaries between Friends and Foes Stéphane Dufoix 177
Part IV Captivity and Colonial Issues: The French Example
Introduction Pierre Journoud 183
Chapter 15 Wartime Internment of Algerians in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: For a History of Forms of Captivity in the Long Term Sylvie Thénault 189
Chapter 16 Helping 'Our' Prisoners: Philanthropic Mobilization for French Colonial Prisoners of War, 1940-1942 Sarah Ann Frank 199
Chapter 17 French Guards for French Colonial Prisoners of War in German Captivity, 1943-1944: An Anomaly in International Affairs Raffael Scheck 213
Chapter 18 Why Release the Prisoners? The Algerian Army of National Liberation Raphaëlle Branche 228
Chapter 19 The Other Point of View… The Doctor. Armed Conflict and Captivity: Aspects of Change between the Twentieth and the Twenty-first Centuries Jérôme Larché 240
Part V Captivity in Wartime: From One Century to Another
Chapter 20 Round Table Discussion Hervé DréVillon Christophe Bouton Michel Goya Daniel Palmieri 257
By Way of Conclusion Henry Rousso 273
Bibliography 283
Index 317
