Prisoners of war : Europe: 1939-1955.

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Cover -- Prisoners of War: Europe: 1939-1956 -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Maps -- 1: Introduction -- Prisoners of War and the Historians -- Prisoners of War: Europe 1939‒1956 -- Prelude: Protections for Prisoners of War before 1939 -- PART I: CAPTIVITY IN EASTERN AND WESTERN EUROPE -- 2: The Polish Campaign and the Winter War 1939‒1940: Portents for the Future -- The Polish Armed Forces in German Captivity -- The Economic Exploitation of Polish Prisoners of War -- Polish Prisoners under Soviet Occupation -- The Fate of the Polish Officers -- After Barbarossa -- The Winter War -- 3: Defeat and Internment: The French Army in German Hands -- War and Defeat-the First Months -- French Prisoners in Germany -- The Vichy Regime and the Prisoners -- Prisoners and their Families -- Escape, Evasion, and Punishment -- Wartime Repatriation -- 4: Scandinavia and the Low Countries -- The Neutral States: Denmark and Norway -- The Netherlands -- Belgium -- The Belgian Prisoner of War Regime -- Life in Captivity -- 5: Conventional Captivity: Western Allied Forces in Axis Hands -- The First British Prisoners: Captivity in Germany -- The Creation of Government Agencies and the Problems of Democratic Accountability -- The Limits of the Convention -- British Prisoners of the Italians -- Everyday Life in Italian Camps -- Prisoner Exchanges -- Escape and Evasion -- 6: The Western Allies and their German Prisoners 1939‒1945 -- British and American Policy -- The 'Fur Trappers': The Germans in Canada -- The Impact of Shackling -- Prisoners as an Economic Resource -- Screening, Segregation, and Wartime Re-education -- Escape -- 7: Enforced Diaspora: The Fate of Italian Prisoners of War During the Second World War -- Italian Prisoners of the British Empire -- Captives of the United States and the 50:50 Agreement.

Ally to Enemy: From Comrades to Military Internees -- Italians in Soviet Hands -- Diaspora -- 8: War of Annihilation: Russian Prisoners of War on the Eastern Front 1941‒1942 -- Preparations for Operation Barbarossa -- Barbarossa: The First Six Months -- The Kommissarbefehl and Mass Executions -- Soviet Prisoners in the German War Economy -- Explaining Soviet Mortality -- 9: Soviet Prisoners in German Captivity 1942‒1945 -- The Uses and Abuses of Soviet Prisoners inside and outside the Reich -- Resistance among Soviet Prisoners -- Soviet Prisoners in German Military Formations -- Conclusions -- 10: Conflict in the Balkans: Conventional War-Partisan War-Civil War -- Yugoslavia -- Albania -- Greece -- Conclusions: Partisans in the Balkans and Elsewhere -- PART II: RACE AND GENDER IN CAPTIVITY -- 11: Jewish Prisoners of War -- Poles -- Yugoslavia -- French and Belgians -- Western Allies: Britain, its Empire and the United States -- Soviet Union -- Jewish Prisoners of War in Soviet Hands -- 12: Black, North African and Indian Prisoners of War in Axis Hands -- French Colonial Forces -- Captivity in Germany and France -- Colonial Prisoners as a Propaganda Weapon -- Vichy and its Colonial Soldiers in Captivity -- The Long Wait for Repatriation -- British Imperial Forces -- 13: Women as Prisoners of War -- The Eastern Front -- German Women in Allied Hands -- Women in Soviet Hands -- Women in the SS -- PART III: REPATRIATION AND REINTEGRATION -- 14: Liberation, Repatriation, Reintegration, Retribution: The Return Home of Allied Soldiers -- The Liberation of Soviet Prisoners -- Inter-Allied Prisoner Exchanges -- The British and American Experience -- The French Return: An Inconvenient Reminder -- 15: Continuing Captivity: Axis Soldiers in the West, 1945‒1948 -- Mass Captures June 1944‒May 1945 -- The Debate on the Rhine Meadow Camps.

Repatriations from Overseas -- In the Hands of Other European Powers -- 16: Continuing Captivity: Axis Soldiers in Soviet Hands -- The Soviet Prisoner of War Regime -- Post-war Soviet Policy -- Repatriations 1948-1956 -- The German Governments and their Prisoners in Soviet Hands -- Prisoners as Reparations: Axis Soldiers in Polish Captivity -- The Hungarians -- 17: Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Index.

The Second World War between the Axis and Allied powers saw over 20 million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. Prisoners of War uses a series of case studies to illuminate the personal and collective histories of those who experienced captivity in Eastern and Western Europe during the war and their repatriation and reintegration afterwards.