CHAPTER 4 From Allies to Enemies: Prisoners of the Third Reich in Italy – The Case of the Rimini Enclave, 1945–1947

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Abbreviations xii
6. EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Prisoners of War in the Twentieth Century: A Problematic at the Crossroads of Histories and Disciplines 1
7. Introduction: Wartime Imprisonment in the Twentieth Century 13
8. Part I Camp Systems, International Law and Humanitarian Action
9. Introduction 25
10. CHAPTER 1 International Law and Western Front Prisoners of War in the First World War 30
11. CHAPTER 2 German Treatment of Jewish Prisoners of War in the Second World War 45
12. CHAPTER 3 ‘All Things Are Possible For Him Who Believes’ (Mark 9:23) The Regulation of Religious Life in Prisoner of War Camps in the Second World War 54
13. CHAPTER 4 From Allies to Enemies: Prisoners of the Third Reich in Italy – The Case of the Rimini Enclave, 1945–1947 65
14. CHAPTER 5 The Other Point of View . . . The Lawyer 74
15. Part II Languages of Captivity: Bodies and Minds Behind the Barbed Wire
16. Introduction 79
17. CHAPTER 6 Liminality and Transgression: Breaching Social Boundaries in First World War Internment Camps 84
18. CHAPTER 7 Half-naked Nazis: Masculinity and Gender in German POW Camps in the United States during the Second World War 95
19. CHAPTER 8 Fernand Braudel as Prisoner in Germany: Confronting the Long Term and the Present Time 103
20. CHAPTER 9 ‘The Trio is Growing like a Piece of Asparagus’ Hans Gál and the Trio of the Huyton Suite 115
21. CHAPTER 10 The Other Point of View . . . The Ethnologist. The Internment of Spanish Republicans in French Camps: The Ethnologist Caught in the Net of Memory 127
22. Part III Relations Between Captivity and Society: From Capture to Liberation
23. Introduction. Beyond the Wire: Interactions between Prison Camps and their Surrounding Communities 137
24. CHAPTER 11 Perceptions of Axis Captives in the British Isles, 1939–1948 141
25. CHAPTER 12 ‘Voluntary’ Captivity: Russian Prisoners of War in Switzerland, 1942–1945 153
26. CHAPTER 13 ‘Rodolph – How Nice He Is!’ Contact between German Prisoners of War and French Civilians, 1944–1948 163
27. CHAPTER 14 The Other Point of View . . . The Sociologist: The Boundaries between Friends and Foes 177
28. Part IV Captivity and Colonial Issues: The French Example
29. Introduction 183
30. CHAPTER 15 Wartime Internment of Algerians in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: For a History of Forms of Captivity in the Long Term 189
31. CHAPTER 16 Helping ‘Our’ Prisoners: Philanthropic Mobilization for French Colonial Prisoners of War, 1940–1942 199
32. CHAPTER 17 French Guards for French Colonial Prisoners of War in German Captivity, 1943–1944 An Anomaly in International Affairs 213
33. CHAPTER 18 Why Release the Prisoners? The Algerian Army of National Liberation 228
34. CHAPTER 19 The Other Point of View . . . The Doctor: Armed Conflict and Captivity: Aspects of Change between the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 240
35. Part V Captivity in Wartime: From One Century to Another
36. CHAPTER 20 Round Table Discussion 257
37. By Way of Conclusion 273
38. Bibliography 283
39. Index 317