Prisoners of war : Europe, 1939-1955 / Bob Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Bob, 1954- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners of war.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (560 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

The Second World War between the Axis and Allied powers saw over 20 million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. 'Prisoners of War' uses a series of case studies to illuminate the personal and collective histories of those who experienced captivity in Eastern and Western Europe during the war and their repatriation and reintegration afterwards.

Contents:

Cover

Prisoners of War: Europe: 1939-1956

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

Maps

1: Introduction

Prisoners of War and the Historians

Prisoners of War: Europe 1939‒1956

Prelude: Protections for Prisoners of War before 1939

PART I: CAPTIVITY IN EASTERN AND WESTERN EUROPE

2: The Polish Campaign and the Winter War 1939‒1940: Portents for the Future

The Polish Armed Forces in German Captivity

The Economic Exploitation of Polish Prisoners of War

Polish Prisoners under Soviet Occupation

The Fate of the Polish Officers

After Barbarossa

The Winter War

3: Defeat and Internment: The French Army in German Hands

War and Defeat-the First Months

French Prisoners in Germany

The Vichy Regime and the Prisoners

Prisoners and their Families

Escape, Evasion, and Punishment

Wartime Repatriation

4: Scandinavia and the Low Countries

The Neutral States: Denmark and Norway

The Netherlands

Belgium

The Belgian Prisoner of War Regime

Life in Captivity

5: Conventional Captivity: Western Allied Forces in Axis Hands

The First British Prisoners: Captivity in Germany

The Creation of Government Agencies and the Problems of Democratic Accountability

The Limits of the Convention

British Prisoners of the Italians

Everyday Life in Italian Camps

Prisoner Exchanges

Escape and Evasion

6: The Western Allies and their German Prisoners 1939‒1945

British and American Policy

The 'Fur Trappers': The Germans in Canada

The Impact of Shackling

Prisoners as an Economic Resource

Screening, Segregation, and Wartime Re-education

Escape

7: Enforced Diaspora: The Fate of Italian Prisoners of War During the Second World War

Italian Prisoners of the British Empire

Captives of the United States and the 50:50 Agreement.

Ally to Enemy: From Comrades to Military Internees

Italians in Soviet Hands

Diaspora

8: War of Annihilation: Russian Prisoners of War on the Eastern Front 1941‒1942

Preparations for Operation Barbarossa

Barbarossa: The First Six Months

The Kommissarbefehl and Mass Executions

Soviet Prisoners in the German War Economy

Explaining Soviet Mortality

9: Soviet Prisoners in German Captivity 1942‒1945

The Uses and Abuses of Soviet Prisoners inside and outside the Reich

Resistance among Soviet Prisoners

Soviet Prisoners in German Military Formations

Conclusions

10: Conflict in the Balkans: Conventional War-Partisan War-Civil War

Yugoslavia

Albania

Greece

Conclusions: Partisans in the Balkans and Elsewhere

PART II: RACE AND GENDER IN CAPTIVITY

11: Jewish Prisoners of War

Poles

French and Belgians

Western Allies: Britain, its Empire and the United States

Soviet Union

Jewish Prisoners of War in Soviet Hands

12: Black, North African and Indian Prisoners of War in Axis Hands

French Colonial Forces

Captivity in Germany and France

Colonial Prisoners as a Propaganda Weapon

Vichy and its Colonial Soldiers in Captivity

The Long Wait for Repatriation

British Imperial Forces

13: Women as Prisoners of War

The Eastern Front

German Women in Allied Hands

Women in Soviet Hands

Women in the SS

PART III: REPATRIATION AND REINTEGRATION

14: Liberation, Repatriation, Reintegration, Retribution: The Return Home of Allied Soldiers

The Liberation of Soviet Prisoners

Inter-Allied Prisoner Exchanges

The British and American Experience

The French Return: An Inconvenient Reminder

15: Continuing Captivity: Axis Soldiers in the West, 1945‒1948

Mass Captures June 1944‒May 1945

The Debate on the Rhine Meadow Camps.

Repatriations from Overseas

In the Hands of Other European Powers

16: Continuing Captivity: Axis Soldiers in Soviet Hands

The Soviet Prisoner of War Regime

Post-war Soviet Policy

Repatriations 1948-1956

The German Governments and their Prisoners in Soviet Hands

Prisoners as Reparations: Axis Soldiers in Polish Captivity

The Hungarians

17: Conclusions

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-257680-1

0-19-187597-X

0-19-257679-8