Behind barbed wire : an encyclopedia of concentration and prisoner-of-war camps / Alexander Mikaberidze, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mikaberidze, Alexander, editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoner-of-war camps--Encyclopedias.

Prisoner-of-war camps.

Concentration camps--Encyclopedias.

Concentration camps.

Military prisons--Encyclopedias.

Military prisons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 394 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2019]

Summary:

This reference work examines internment, forced labor, and extermination during times of war and genocide during the 20th and 21st centuries, with focus on World War II and recent conflicts in the Middle East. It explores internment as a weapon and how it has led to crimes against humanity. Includes profiles of key atrocity perpetrators and curated and contextualized primary source documents. For students of global studies, history, and political science and general readers.

Contents:

Abu Ghraib

Afghanistan

American Civil War (1861-1865)

American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)

Andersonville Prison

Apache Wars (1861-1886)

Arbeitslager

Argentina

Armenian Genocide

Auschwitz

Australia

Badaber Revolt (1985)

Bagram Air Base

Banjica Concentration Camp

Bataan Death March (1942)

Batu Lintang Camp

Belene Camp

Belomorkanal

Belzec

Bergen-Belsen

Berger, Gottlob (1896-1975)

Beria, Lavrenty (1899-1953)

Berman, Matvei (1898-1939)

Bicycle Camp

Birkenau

Bloemfontein Concentration Camp

Boer War (1899-1902)

Bosnian War

Brandstrom, Elsa (1888-1948)

Britain

British Army Aid Group

Brussels, Declaration of (1874)

Buchenwald

Bulgaria, Internment and Labor Camps

Bullet Decree (1944)

Burma-Thailand Railway

Bushell, Roger Joyce (1910-1944)

Butovo Firing Range

Bykivnia Mass Grave Site

Cabanatuan

Cabrera

Cambodian Killing Fields

Camp Bucca

Camp Chase

Camp Douglas

Camp Ford

Camp O'Donnell

Camp 22

Canada

Cavell, Edith Louisa (1865-1915)

Celebici Camp

Central Agency for Prisoners of War

Changi

Chelmno

Chieti

Chile

China

Choeung Ek

Colditz

Concentration Camps

Confederate States of America

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)

Cowra Incident

Dachau

Dartmoor Massacre (1815)

Davao Prison and Penal Farm

Death Camps

Defence Regulation 18B

Deir ez Zor

Denmark

Dmitrovlag/Dmitlag

Dora-Mittelbau

Drancy

Dulag Luft

Eichmann, Adolf (1906-1962)

Eichmans, Fyodor (1897-1938)

Elmira Prison (New York)

Engerau Trials (1945-1954)

Extermination Centers

Far East, British Military Trials

Featherston Camp (New Zealand)

Filtration Camps in Chechnya

Finland

Flick Case (1947)

Flossenburg

Foca Camp

Fort Cass

Fossoli di Carpi

France

Franz, Kurt (1914-1998)

French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era

Gas Chambers

Geneva Convention Protocol I (1977)

Geneva Convention Relating to Prisoners of War (1929)

Germany

Gestapo

Gospic

Great Escape

Gross-Rosen

Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Gulag

Heim, Aribert (1914-1992)

Herero Genocide, Concentration Camps and

Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)

Hoa Lo Prison (Hanoi Hilton)

Hoess, Rudolf (1900-1947)

Holocaust, The

Holzminden

HOMECOMING, Operation (1973)

I.G. Farben Case (1947)

Indian Removal Act (1830)

Internment of Japanese Americans

J.A. Topf & Sohne

Jadovno Concentration Camp

Japan

Jasenovac

Kang Kek Iew (1942-)

Kapos

Katyn Forest Massacre (1943)

Kim Il Sung (1912-1994)

Kinderblock 66

Koch Trial (1951)

Kogan, Lazar (1889-1939)

Koje-Do Incident (1952)

Korean War

Krakow-Plaszow

Kramer, Josef (1906-1945)

Krupp Case (1948)

Lamsdorf

Libby Prison

Lieber Code

Los Banos

Majdanek

Manjaca

Mao Zedong (1893-1976)

Maschke Commission

Mauthausen-Gusen

Medical Experimentation during World War II

Mengele, Josef (1911-1979)

Monowitz

Natzweiler-Struthof

Neuengamme

Niederhagen

NKVD

Norman Cross

North Korea

Nuremberg Trials (1945-1946)

Oberheuser, Herta (1911-1978)

Okahandja

Omarska

Palawan Massacre (1944)

Persian Gulf War (1991)

Pliner, Izrail

Pohl, Oswald (1892-1951)

Pul-i Charkhi (Pul-E- Charkhi)

Qala-i- Jangi Revolt (2001)

Rab

Rape Camps, Former Yugoslavia

Ravensbruck

Rheinwiesenlager (1945)

Ruhleben

Sachsenhausen

Sajmiste

Salaspils

Salisbury Prison (North Carolina)

Sandakan Death Marches

Sandarmokh

Sarposa

Selarang Barracks Incident (1942)

Seminole Wars

Serpantinka

Sevvostlag

Shark Island

Sisak

Slave Labor (World War II)

Sobibor

Solovki Special Camp

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (1918-2008)

Sonderaktion 1005

Sonderkommando

Soviet Union, Deportations in

Soviet Union, POW Camps (1941-1956)

Spanish-American War (1898)

Srebrenica Massacre

Sremska Mitrovica

Sri Lanka

SS-Totenkopfverbande

Stajicevo

Stalag

Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953)

Stangl, Franz (1908-1971)

Stutthof

Swakopmund

Sweden

Switzerland

Theresienstadt

Torrens Island

Trail of Tears (1838)

Trawniki Men

Treblinka

Trostinets

Tuchola Camp

Tuol Sleng Prison

Unit 731

U.S. POW Camps (1861-1865)

U.S. POW Camps (1941-1948)

Ustase

Vaivara

Vietnam War (1964-1973)

Vorkuta Camps

Vught

Westerbork

Windhoek

Wirth, Christian (1885-1944)

World War I Prisoners of War

World War II Prisoners of War

Yokohama Trials (1946-1951)

Yugoslavia

Zamperini, Louis (1917-2014)

Zyklon B Case (1946)

Primary documents.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798216052241

9781440857621

1440857628

OCLC:

1039188035