Download or read book La captivit de guerre au XXe si cle written by Anne-Marie Pathé and published by Companyédition Armand Colin/Ministère de la Défense. This book was released on 2012 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Si le XXe siècle apparaît comme le siècle des guerres, la figure du prisonnier est longtemps restée comme oubliée. Or, les captifs se comptèrent par millions lors des deux conflits mondiaux, se sont affirmés comme un enjeu central des guerres de décolonisation et révèlent aujourd'hui les mutations, stratégiques et juridiques, des conflits du XXIe siècle. Objet d'une forte demande sociale, en France comme à l'étranger, la captivité de guerre fait, depuis une décennie, un retour remarqué dans les travaux des historiens. Transnationale par définition, son histoire déborde les champs de bataille pour toucher l'ensemble des sociétés en guerre de Sarajevo à Guantanamo. Le prisonnier se retrouve ainsi au coeur des dynamiques de mobilisation comme de celles des sorties de guerre, militaires autant que culturelles. L'étudier offre des perspectives de recherche particulièrement fécondes sur les liens entre système de camps et droit international humanitaire, traumatismes et adaptations, sociales comme intellectuelles, et révèle la complexité des interactions entre les captifs et les sociétés qui les côtoient ou les attendent. Face à cet intérêt renouvelé, le présent ouvrage invite, pour la première fois, des archivistes, des historiens et d'autres spécialistes de sciences humaines à dresser un panorama international de la captivité en temps de guerre.
Download or read book Disparu mais vivant written by André David and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prisonnier de guerre en Allemagne 1940 1945 written by Léon Noguéro and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2017 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le 22 juin 1940, le caporal Léon Noguéro du 49e Régiment d'Infanterie de Bayonne est fait prisonnier par les troupes allemandes dans les Vosges, au hameau les Feignes, les armes à la main. Durant cinq années de captivité passées en Allemagne, il sera rattaché à un kommando de travailleurs du bâtiment et affecté dans un premier temps à Urlau puis muté successivement dans les villes d'Hannover, de Munster, de Bremen, d'Osnabrück, de Magdeburg pour y accomplir des missions civiles à la suite des dégâts occasionnés par les bombardements des Alliés.
Download or read book Les prisonniers de guerre fran ais en 40 written by Fabien Théofilakis and published by Fayard. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: À l’été 1940, des millions de Français se mettent à écrire, à leurs maires, sous-préfets et préfets, mais aussi à des organismes internationaux et jusqu’au pape, pour savoir ce que sont devenus leur père, leur époux, leurs enfants. En six semaines à peine, entre le 13 mai et le 22 juin 1940, la défaite militaire se transforme en débâcle et la captivité concerne désormais presque deux millions de soldats détenus par les Allemands en territoire français. Captivité transitoire, première étape d’un emprisonnement long, parfois douloureux, dans le Reich, captivité fondatrice aussi et mémoire oubliée de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Au nord de la Loire comme le long de l’Atlantique, la France se couvre de camps de prisonniers, les Frontstalags. Véritable défi logistique, social et politique, la captivité devient un enjeu central, pour les familles qui attendent, pour le régime de Vichy qui cherche à affirmer sa souveraineté comme pour les autorités allemandes qui imposent leur ordre de vainqueur, mais aussi pour les instances internationales, du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge à l’ambassade des États-Unis, en passant par le Vatican. Donner à voir, faire ressentir, amener à comprendre ce qu’a été une captivité française en France, celle de 1940 : tel est l’objectif de cet ouvrage collectif qui varie les échelles et les points de vue pour proposer une histoire au carrefour de la défaite, de l’Occupation et de la Collaboration – un essai qui, à partir d’archives françaises et étrangères ainsi que de nombreux documents iconographiques, mêle relations internationales et quotidien à hauteur d’homme.
Download or read book Wartime Captivity in the 20th Century written by Anne-Marie Pathé and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long a topic of historical interest, wartime captivity has over the past decade taken on new urgency as an object of study. Transnational by its very nature, captivity’s historical significance extends far beyond the front lines, ultimately inextricable from the histories of mobilization, nationalism, colonialism, law, and a host of other related subjects. This wide-ranging volume brings together an international selection of scholars to trace the contours of this evolving research agenda, offering fascinating new perspectives on historical moments that range from the early days of the Great War to the arrival of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
Download or read book Prisoners of War written by Bob Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War between the European Axis powers and the Allies saw more than twenty million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. While this total is inflated by the unconditional surrender of all German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945, it nonetheless highlights the fact that captivity was one of the most common experiences for all those in uniform - even more common than frontline service. Despite this, and the huge literature on so many aspects of the war, prisoner of war histories have remained a separate and sometimes isolated element in the wider national chronicles of the conflict constructed in the post war era. Prisoners of every nationality had their own narratives of military service and captivity. While it is impossible to encompass their collective histories, let alone the individual experiences of all twenty million prisoners in a single volume, Bob Moore uses a series of case studies to highlight the key elements involved and to introduce, analyse, and refine some of the major debates that have arisen in the existing historiography. The study is divided into three broad sections: captivity in Eastern and Western Europe during the war itself, comparative studies of specific categories of prisoners, and the repatriation and reintegration of prisoners after the war.
Download or read book Defeat and Division written by Douglas Porch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defeat and Division launches a definitive new account of France in the Second World War. In this first volume, Douglas Porch dissects France's 1940 collapse, the dynamics of occupation, and the rise of Charles de Gaulle's Free France crusade, culminating in the November 1942 Allied invasion of French North Africa. He captures the full sweep of France's wartime experience in Europe, Africa, and beyond, from soldiers and POWs to civilians-in-arms, colonial subjects, and foreign refugees. He recounts France's struggles to reconstruct military power within the context of a global conflict, with its armed forces shattered into warring factions and the country under Axis occupation. Disagreements over the causes of the 1940 debacle and the subsequent requirement for the armistice mirrored long-standing fractures in politics, society, and the French military itself, as efforts to reconstitute French military power crumbled into Vichy collaboration, De Gaulle's exile resistance, Alsace-Moselle occupation struggles, and a scuffle for imperial supremacy.
Download or read book French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II written by Raffael Scheck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. Raffael Scheck shows that the German treatment of French colonial soldiers improved dramatically after initial abuses, leading the French authorities in 1945 to believe that there was a possible German plot to instigate a rebellion in the French empire. Scheck illustrates that the colonial prisoners' contradictory experiences with French authorities, French civilians, and German guards created strong demands for equal rights at the end of the war, leading to clashes with a colonial administration eager to reintegrate them into a discriminatory routine.
Download or read book Colonial Soldiers in Europe 1914 1945 written by Eric Storm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first half of the twentieth century, European countries witnessed the arrival of hundreds of thousands of colonial soldiers fighting in European territory (First and Second World War and Spanish Civil War) and coming into contact with European society and culture. For many Europeans, these were the first instances in which they met Asians or Africans, and the presence of Indian, Indo-Chinese, Moluccan, Senegalese, Moroccan or Algerian soldiers in Europe did not go unnoticed. This book explores this experience as it relates to the returning soldiers - who often had difficulties re-adapting to their subordinate status at home - and on European authorities who for the first time had to accommodate large numbers of foreigners in their own territories, which in some ways would help shape later immigration policies.
Download or read book Colonial Captivity during the First World War written by Mahon Murphy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new analysis of internment outside Europe helps us to understand the First World War as a truly global conflict.
Download or read book The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933 1945 Volume IV written by Geoffrey P. Megargee and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 1701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume IV aims to provide as much basic information as possible about individual camps and other detention facilities. Why were they established? Who ran them? What kinds of prisoners did they hold? What kinds of work did the prisoners do, and for whom? What were the conditions like? The entries detail the sources from which the authors drew their material, so future scholars can expand upon the work. Finally, and perhaps most important, this is a work of memorialization: it preserves the histories of places where people suffered and died. Volume IV examines an under-researched segment of the larger Nazi incarceration system: camps and other detention facilities under the direct control of the German military, the Wehrmacht. These include prisoner of war (POW) camps (including camps for enlisted men, camps for officers, camps for naval personnel and airmen, and transit camps), civilian internment and labor camps, work camps for Tunisian Jews, brothels in which women were forced to have sex with soldiers, and prisons and penal camps for Wehrmacht personnel. Most of these sites have not been described in detail in the existing historical literature, and a substantial number of them have never been documented at all. The volume also includes an introduction to the German prisoner of war camp system and its evolution, introductions to each of the various types of camps operated by the Wehrmacht, and entries devoted to each individual camp, representing the most comprehensive documentation to date of the Wehrmacht camp system. Within the entries, the volume draws upon German military documents, eyewitness and survivor testimony, and postwar investigations to describe the experiences of prisoners of war and civilian prisoners held captive by the Wehrmacht. Of particular note is the detailed documentation of the Wehrmacht's crimes against Soviet prisoners of war, which have largely been neglected in the English-language literature up to this point, despite the fact that more than three million Soviet prisoners died in German captivity. The volume also provides substantial coverage of the diverse range of conditions encountered by other Allied prisoners of war, illustrating both the substantial privations faced by all prisoners of war and the stark contrast between the Germans' treatment of Soviet prisoners and those of other nationalities. The volume also details the significant involvement of the Wehrmacht in crimes against the civilian populations of occupied Europe and North Africa. As a result, this volume not only brings to light many detention sites whose existence has been little known, but also advances the decades-old process of dismantling the myth of the "clean Wehrmacht," according to which the German military had nothing to do with the Holocaust and the Nazi regime's other crimes.
Download or read book Resistance and Liberation written by Douglas Porch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New history of la France libre, Vichy collaboration, and the resistance from the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Second World War Volume 1 Fighting the War written by John Ferris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military events of the Second World War have been the subject of historical debate from 1945 to the present. It mattered greatly who won, and fighting was the essential determinant of victory or defeat. In Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War a team of twenty-five leading historians offer a comprehensive and authoritative new account of the war's military and strategic history. Part I examines the military cultures and strategic objectives of the eight major powers involved. Part II surveys the course of the war in its key theatres across the world, and assesses why one side or the other prevailed there. Part III considers, in a comparative way, key aspects of military activity, including planning, intelligence, and organisation of troops and matérial, as well as guerrilla fighting and treatment of prisoners of war.
Download or read book 2013 written by Massimo Mastrogregori and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author’s name and characteristic keywords in their title.
Download or read book Escaping Nazi Europe written by Bernard Wilkin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the escapes attempted by Belgian soldiers and civilians from Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War. Insofar as is practical, the authors have tried to let the subjects speak for themselves by making extensive use of their testimonies preserved in archives in Belgium and the United Kingdom. The book begins with the stories of soldiers who managed to evade capture in the summer of 1940 and returned home, and the few that decided to continue the fight and joined the Allied forces in the United Kingdom. It also includes the prisoners of war who managed to escape from camps or Arbeitskommando inside the Reich and provides a detailed analysis of their narratives: their motivation for going on the run, their choices on when and how to travel, and the many obstacles they encountered along the way. Most escapees were content to return home, with some then joining resistance organisations, but a small minority were committed to joining the Allies, and further chapters recount their attempts to reach Spain and Switzerland, and the additional problems they encountered in those neutral states. Final chapters reflect on the penalties inflicted on prisoners of war who were recaptured and on the escapees’ struggle for recognition in the post-war world.
Download or read book The Impact of World War I on Marriages Divorces and Gender Relations in Europe written by Sandra Brée and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did WWI affect the love lives of ordinary citizens and their interactions as couples? This book focuses on how dramatic changes in living conditions affected key parts of the life course of ordinary citizens: marriage and divorce. Innovative in bringing together demographic and gender perspectives, contributions in this comparative volume draw on newly available micro-level data, as well as qualitative sources such as war diaries. In a first exploration intended to incite further research, it asks how patterns of marriage and divorce were affected by the war across Europe, and what the role of enduring change - or lack thereof - in gender relations was in shaping these patterns.
Download or read book The Legacy of Nazi Occupation written by Pieter Lagrou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-13 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, in Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare series, examines how France, Belgium and the Netherlands emerged from the military collapse and humiliating Nazi occupation they suffered during the Second World War. Rather than traditional armed conflict, the human consequences of Nazi policies were resistance, genocide and labour migration to Germany. Pieter Lagrou offers a genuinely comparative approach to these issues, based on extensive archival research; he underlines the divergence between ambiguous experiences of occupation and the univocal post-war patriotic narratives which followed. His book reveals striking differences in political cultures as well as close convergence in the creation of a common Western European discourse, and uncovers disturbing aspects of the aftermath of the war, including post-war antisemitism and the marginalisation of resistance veterans. Brilliantly researched and fluently written, this book will be of central interest to all scholars and students of twentieth-century European history.
