Images of war captivity from 1870 to the present / Esther Gardei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardei, Esther.

Series:

Dependency and Slavery Studies

Dependency and Slavery Studies.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : De Gruyter, 2026.

Summary:

War captivity is a prolific field of research for studies on strong asymmetrical dependency. The contributions in the present volume examine how POWs and civilian internees in different military conflicts, including the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, the two world wars, and the war in Bosnia, have been represented in visual sources. The images of war captivity addressed in the contributions are as heterogeneous as the contexts in which they were produced; they include allegorical representations and official press photographs, amateurish snapshots and propagandistic film recordings, self-drawn camp albums and comics commemorating war. What they have in common, however, is that they not only offer information about POWs and civilian internees but also interpret and emotionalise their experience. Visual sources may, for instance, document how POWs were treated in a particular camp, but they may also stress a certain amount of agency of the POWs; in addition, they may come to play a vital role in how the detaining power is remembered. Images provide evidence of atrocities and comparatively humane treatment alike – and thus may be relevant to the question whether reconciliation might seem possible in the long run.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Images of War Captivity - Introduction

1 War Captivity as a State of Strong Asymmetrical Dependency

2 The Situation of POWs and the (Im)Possibility of Reconciliation

3 The Structure of this Volume

Bibliography

Part I: (Self-)Representation and the Visual Aesthetics of War Captivity

Picture, Man, Barbed Wire - Visual Representation of Civilian Internees during the First World War

1 Introduction

2 Images of Prisoners of the Great War in the Online Space

3 Types of Images

4 Photos: Producers, Locations, and Where to Find Them

5 What Is Behind the Photos?

6 Drawings and Paintings

7 The Question of Victimization in the Images

8 The Role of the Visual Representation in War Propaganda

9 Visual Representation as Research Tool

10 Conclusion

"The Love of Beauty and the Arts" - Photographs from World War I Prisoner of War Camps from the Collection of Jenő Bárkány

Adolf Sindlers Re-Education-Programm als Versöhnungsaktivität und dessen Grenzen: Fritzchens Schnappschüsse von „Utopia" und „Dachau in Ägypten"

1 Einleitung

2 Re-Education als Versöhnungsprogramm?

3 Adolf Sindlers humanistisches Re-Education-Programm und die Grenzen: „Dachau in Ägypten"

4 Fazit

Bibliografie

Primärquellen

Sekundärquellen

Part II: Political Instrumentalisation and Propagandistic Use of Images

Leveraging the Captured: War Captivity and the American Imperialist Narrative in Wartime Newsreels about the Philippines

2 POW Camps in the Japanese-Occupied Philippines

3 Framing the Enemy

4 Constructing the Savior Narrative

5 The Philippines as a Cinematic Setting

6 Conclusion

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources.

Between Diplomacy and Propaganda: Photographing Soviet POWs during the ICRC's Visit to Stalag 315 (II F) Hammerstein on 9 August 1941

2 Images as Diplomatic Tools in Wartime

3 A Photographic Record with Gaps in Context

4 Staging the ICRC's Visit for the Camera

5 Photographic Portrayal Versus Written Account

6 From Critical Reception to Diplomatic Deadlock

Nationale Blickverengungen und ausgeblendete Versöhnlichkeit. Bilder französischer Kriegsgefangener in Deutschland, 1870/71

2 Interaktion im Alltag

3 Anerkennung und Empathie

4 Verweigerter Dialog und rassische Abwertung

5 Misstrauen

6 Fazit

Soviet Prisoners of War in Soviet State Policy and Filmic Reflections: From Irreconcilability to Public Solidarity

2 Nazi Racial Politics and Soviet Soldiers in Nazi Captivity During World War II

3 Soviet Policy Towards Former POWs: From Official Irreconcilability to Public Solidarity

4 Images of Soviet POWs and their Post-War Fates in Soviet Films

5 Conclusion

Unterlegene Schicksalsgenossen von der anderen Seite der Front? Sowjetische Kriegsgefangene in der finnischen Kriegsfotografie des Fortsetzungskrieges (1941-1944)

2 Universale Zeichen des eigenen Sieges

3 Bilder der anständigen Behandlung der Gefangenen

4 „Große Kinder" oder Angehörige fremder Rassen?

5 Schlussbetrachtung - Fotografie als Mittel zum Zweck?

Part III: War Captivity as Performativity: Remembrance, Reconciliation and the Visual Construction of Myths

Helden hinter Stacheldraht. Das Totengedenken der Kriegsgefangenen des Ersten Weltkriegs

1 Tod und Trauer im Lager

2 Gefallenengedenken im Ersten Weltkrieg.

3 Die Grabsymbolik von Kampf, Trauer und Heldentum

4 Der Kampf der Kriegsgefangenen um Reputation

5 Fazit

„Nermin, komm her!" - Die Kriegsgefangenen von Srebrenica?

2 Historischer Kontext

2.1 Der Genozid von Srebrenica

2.2 Ramo Osmanović

3 „Kriegsgefangenschaft"?

4 Quellenbetrachtung

5 Schlussbetrachtung: Versöhnung?

Reproducing Jasenovac: Appropriating Moving Images of Children as 'Captives of War'

2 History, Memory, Myth: Researching the Archival Footage

3 Defining the Corpus of Archival Footage of Children

4 Appropriation of Archival Footage in Newsreels and Post-War Films

4.1 War Propaganda in Newsreels

4.2 Yugoslav Reconciliation and Post-War Mythmaking

4.3 Post-Memory and Contested Symbolism

Filmography

Myths of "Prisoners of War" and Prospects for Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and Bosnia

2 The "Second Thirty Years' War" in and About Northern Ireland: Visualizations of Captivity and Brutality during the Troubles

2.1 Catholic/Republican National Mythmaking

2.2 Other-Demonizing and Self-Sympathizing: British Brutality and Irish Innocence

2.3 Theological Overlay: Remembrance and Companionship

2.4 Analysis and Conclusion: The Two-Pronged Temporal and Spiritual Battle

3 Bosnian War: The Life of a Photo

3.1 Mythmaking of Victimhood and Photography of Captivity

3.2 Prisoners-of-War Photography and Post-War Reconciliation

3.3 The Challenges of Reconciliation in Bosnia

4 Conclusion

Reimagining Civilian Internment and Forced Labour during the First World War through the Lens of Reconciliation: The Comic Series La Guerre des Lulus (2013-)

2 The Depiction of the Enemy in La Guerre des Lulus.

3 A Civilian Internment Camp

4 Forced Labour

Notes on Contributors

Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-224358-7

9783112243589

OCLC:

1578782456