Overview
- Examines attitudes towards German held captive in Britain, drawing on original archival material
- Refocuses debate away from conventional assessments of POW treatment and onto the attitude of the British public towards the standard of treatment of German POWs
- Reveals that the issue of POW treatment intersected with discussions of state power, human rights, gender relations, civility, and national character
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This book examines attitudes towards German held captive in Britain, drawing on original archival material including newspaper and newsreel content, diaries, sociological surveys and opinion polls, as well as official documentation and the archives of pressure groups and protest movements. Moving beyond conventional assessments of POW treatment which have focused on the development of policy, diplomatic relations, and the experience of the POWs themselves, this study refocuses the debate onto the attitude of the British public towards the standard of treatment of German POWs. In so doing, it reveals that the issue of POW treatment intersected with discussions of state power, human rights, gender relations, civility, and national character.
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
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Alan Malpass is Research Assistant at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: British Character and the Treatment of German Prisoners of War, 1939–48
Authors: Alan Malpass
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48915-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48914-4Published: 20 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48917-5Published: 20 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48915-1Published: 19 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 225
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Germany and Central Europe, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Cultural History, Social History