Ink and Paper in the Camp. Ego-Documents of Luxembourger Conscripts in Soviet Captivity

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction – War Experiences of Conscripted Non-German Men and Women 1
5. Part 1: Military Service – Citizenship, Conscription and Volunteering
6. National Socialist Ethnicity and Citizenship Policy under Growing Military Pressure in Occupied Luxembourg (1940–1944) 27
7. Fighting for the Enemy: Recruitment and Mobilisation of Slovenians for the Waffen-SS During the Second World War 61
8. Part 2: Exploring War Experiences Through Ego Documents
9. The War Experience of Non-German Soldiers in the Wehrmacht – The Luxembourg Case 85
10. East Belgians in the Wehrmacht and the Reichsarbeitsdienst, 1940–1945. Biographical Turning Points and Adaptive Stances in the Beck-Peissen Family 127
11. Slovenians Forcibly Conscripted into the Wehrmacht – Analysis of Diaries of their Wartime Experiences 165
12. Ink and Paper in the Camp. Ego-Documents of Luxembourger Conscripts in Soviet Captivity 209
13. Part 3: Desertion and Draft Evasion: Impact on Families and Communities
14. “Desertion Leads to Resettlement” – The Consequences of Desertion and Draft Evasion on the Families of Luxembourgish Soldiers (1942–1945) 241
15. Beihilfe zur Fahnenflucht in der Rechtsprechung der deutschen Sondergerichte in den besetzten Gebieten Polens (1939–1945) 279
16. Alsatian Conscription Evaders in Switzerland 303
17. Part 4: Prisoner of War Captivity and Re-Enlistment
18. Conflicting Loyalties Among Soldiers Fighting Both in the German Army and the Allied Forces 329
19. Malgré-Nous: Men from Alsace and Moselle held as POWs by the Western Allies During WWII 359
20. From One Uniform Into Another: Luxembourgish Men Between Nazi “Forced Conscription” and Post-War Military Service (1942–1946) 395
21. Afterword: War Experiences and the History of Narratives 427
22. Authors 433
23. Index 437