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Jewish soldiers in Nazi captivity : American and British prisoners of war during the second world war / Yorai Linenberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linenberg, Yorai, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, American.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, British.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- World War, 1939-1945--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- An exploration of the extraordinary story of Jewish POWs in German captivity during the Second World War - extraordinary because of the contrast between Germany's genocidal policy towards Jews on one hand, and its relatively non-discriminatory treatment of Jewish POWs from western countries on the other.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Acronyms
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- POWs in German Hands-the Numbers
- Historiographic Review
- Current Explanations for the Treatment of Jewish POWs
- Primary Sources Review
- The German POW Organization
- Summary
- 1. American and British Jewish POWs in German POW Camps
- Capture and Transit
- In the Camp
- Outside the Camp
- Conclusion
- 2. Being a Jewish Soldier in Nazi Captivity
- Capture
- Palestinian Jewish Identity in German POW Camps
- Segregation
- Transnational Jewish Identity: The Encounter with Holocaust Victims
- Religious and Cultural Activity
- Funerals
- 3. Segregation of American and British Jewish POWs
- Segregation in the Geneva Convention and OKW Orders
- POW Camps under the Wehrmacht: Initial Segregation Cases
- POW Camps under Himmler: Segregations in 1945
- Identifying Jewish POWs
- International Reaction to Segregation
- 4. Why Were They Kept Alive? Explaining the Nazi Treatment of Jewish POWs
- The Commander-in-Chief: Hitler
- The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW)
- Interaction between the RSHA and the NSDAP and the Wehrmacht
- The Kriegsgefangenenwesen (POW Office)
- Explaining the Fate of Non-Soviet Jewish POWs
- Appendix A: Sample of POW Commanders and Camp Commandants
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 12, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Linenberg, Yorai Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity
- ISBN:
- 0-19-199688-2
- 0-19-889283-7
- 0-19-889282-9
- OCLC:
- 1396992007
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