British Civilian Internees In Germany

Author : Matthew Stibbe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Civilian Internees in Germany written by Matthew Stibbe and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book tells the forgotten story of four to five thousand British civilians who were interned at the Ruhleben camp near Berlin during the First World War and formed a unique community in the heart of enemy territory. The civilians included academics, musicians, businessmen, seamen and even tourists who had been in Germany for only a few days when war broke out. This book takes a fresh look at German internment policies within an international context, using Ruhleben camp as a particular example to illustrate broader themes including the background to the German decision to intern "enemy aliens," Ruhleben as a "community at war," the role of civilian internment in wartime diplomacy and propaganda, and the place of Ruhleben in British memory of the war. This study will be of interest to all scholars working on the First World War, and to all those concerned with the broader impact of modern conflicts on national identities and community formation.

Author : Panikos Panayi
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526130556
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of Britain written by Panikos Panayi and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the First World War hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, almost a century after the conflict. The book covers the three different types of internees in Britain in the form of: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Britain from all over the world; and combatants. Using a vast range of contemporary British and German sources the volume traces life experiences through initial arrest and capture to life behind barbed wire to return to Germany or to the remnants of the ethnically cleansed German community in Britain. The book will prove essential reading for anyone interested in the history of prisoners of war or the First World War and will also appeal to scholars and students of twentieth-century Europe and the human consequences of war.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401201382
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Totally un-English'? written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internment of ‘enemy aliens’ by the British government in two world wars remains largely hidden from history. British historians have treated the subject – if at all – as a mere footnote to the main narrative of Britain at war. In the ‘Great War’, Britain interned some 30,000 German nationals, most of whom had been long-term residents. In fact, internment brought little discernible benefit, but cruelly damaged lives and livelihoods, breaking up families and disrupting social networks. In May 1940, under the threat of imminent invasion, the British government interned some 28,000 Germans and Austrians, mainly Jewish refugees from the Third Reich. It was a measure which provoked lively criticism, not least in Parliament, where one MP called the internment of refugees ‘totally un-English’. The present volume seeks to shed more light on this still submerged historical episode, adopting an inter-disciplinary approach to explore hitherto under-researched aspects, including the historiography of internment, the internment of women, deportation to Canada, and culture in internment camps, including such notable events as the internment revue What is Life!

Author : Andrew H. Beattie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487637
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany written by Andrew H. Beattie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how all four Allied powers interned alleged Nazis without trial in camps only recently liberated from Nazi control.

Author : Matthew Stibbe
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1137571918
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civilian Internment during the First World War written by Matthew Stibbe and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major study of civilian internment during the First World War as both a European and global phenomenon. Based on research spanning twenty-eight archives in seven countries, this study explores the connections and continuities, as well as ruptures, between different internment systems at the local, national, regional and imperial levels. Arguing that the years 1914-20 mark the essential turning point in the transnational and international history of the detention camp, this book demonstrates that wartime civilian captivity was inextricably bound up with questions of power, world order and inequalities based on class, race and gender. It also contends that engagement with internees led to new forms of international activism and generated new types of transnational knowledge in the spheres of medicine, law, citizenship and neutrality. Finally, an epilogue explains how and why First World War internment is crucial to understanding the world we live in today.

Author : Peter Gillman
Publisher : London : Quartet Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Collar the Lot!" written by Peter Gillman and published by London : Quartet Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collar the lot!"--Churchill's abrupt order, made after Italy declared war, was applied to all 'enemy aliens' in Britain. Most of them were refugees. by July 1940, 27000 had been arrested and thousand deported. When the liner Arandora Star was torpedoed, 800 were drowned

Author : Miriam Kochan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349054836
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Internees in the Second World War written by Miriam Kochan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-06-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Further Correspondence Respecting the Conditions of Diet and Nutrition in the Internment Camp at Ruhleben written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stefan Manz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192590448
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enemies in the Empire written by Stefan Manz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the First World War, Britain was the epicentre of global mass internment and deportation operations. Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Turks, and Bulgarians who had settled in Britain and its overseas territories were deemed to be a potential danger to the realm through their ties with the Central Powers and were classified as 'enemy aliens'. A complex set of wartime legislation imposed limitations on their freedom of movement, expression, and property possession. Approximately 50,000 men and some women experienced the most drastic step of enemy alien control, namely internment behind barbed wire, in many cases for the whole duration of the war and thousands of miles away from the place of arrest. Enemies in the Empire is the first study to analyse British internment operations against civilian 'enemies' during the First World War from an imperial perspective. The narrative takes a three-pronged approach. In addition to a global examination, the volume demonstrates how internment operated on a (proto-) national scale within the three selected case studies of the metropole (Britain), a white dominion (South Africa), and a colony under direct rule (India). Stefan Manz and Panikos Panayi then bring their study to the local level by concentrating on the three camps Knockaloe (Britain), Fort Napier (South Africa), and Ahmednagar (India), allowing for detailed analyses of personal experiences. Although conditions were generally humane, in some cases, suffering occurred. The study argues that the British Empire played a key role in developing civilian internment as a central element of warfare and national security on a global scale.

Author : Richard Noschke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Insight Into Civilian Internment in Britain During WWI written by Richard Noschke and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: