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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.
Contents
1: Introduction
2: The Polish Campaign and the Winter War 1939-1940: Portents for the Future
3: Defeat and Internment: The French Army in German Hands
4: Scandinavia and the Low Countrie
5: Conventional Captivity: Western Allied Forces in Axis Hands
6: The Western Allies and their German Prisoners 1939-1945
7: Enforced Diaspora: Italian Prisoners of War during the Second World War
8: War of Annihilation: Russian Prisoners of War on the Eastern Front 1941-1942
9: Soviet Prisoners in German Captivity 1942-1945
10: Conflict in the Balkans: Conventional War - Partisan War - Civil War
11: Jewish Prisoners of War: Captives of the Racial State
12: Black and Coloured Prisoners of War in Axis Hands
13: Women as Prisoners of War
14: Liberation, Repatriation, Reintegration, Retribution: The Return Home of Allied Soldiers
15: Continuing Captivity: Axis Soldiers in the West, 1945-1948
16: Continuing Captivity: Axis Soldiers in Soviet Hands
17: Conclusions
