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  title info:
    title: British character and the treatment of German prisoners of war, 1939-48
  name:
    name part: Malpass, Alan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 225 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Characteristic Decency of Dangerous Sentimentality? 1939-43 -- 3. Atrocities and the Limits of Civility. 1944-45 -- 4. Rubbing Shoulders with the (Ex)Enemy: Fraternisation and Marriage -- 5. 'A Blot on Our Fair Name? Indefinite Detention and Exploitation -- 6. After Liberation: Migration, Memory and the Meaning of British POW treatment -- 7. Conclusion.
  note: Alan Malpass.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Prisoners and prisons, British
  classification: D805.G7 M35 2020
  classification: 940.547241
  identifier: 3030489140
  identifier: 9783030489144
  identifier: 9783030448547
  identifier: 9783030489151 (PDF ebook)
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200506
    record change date: 20210125091256.0
    record identifier: in00004353697