The fact that the Geneva Convention of 1929 placed prisoners of war (POWs) under the laws in effect in the army of the detaining state meant that western POWs in Nazi Germany were exposed to the extremely repressive Nazi wartime legislation. Hundreds of western POWs had to appear in front of German court martials as a result of a joke on Hitler, a critical comment on the conditions of captivity or ...

In this extraordinary history book, Keith Lowe uses monuments from around the world to show how different countries have attempted to sculpt their history in the wake of the Second World War, and what these memorials reveal about their politics and national identity today. Amongst many questions, the book asks: What does Germany signal to today's far right by choosing not to disclose the exact resting ...

Consists of a Russian language memoir and an English language summary which describe author's childhood in Belarus, experiences of author and his family in the Minsk ghetto, Aktionen, experiences of children in the ghetto, and resistance activities undertaken by ghetto inhabitants. Memoir includes a list of individuals involved in resistance activities in Minsk.

The collection contains lists of prisoners in the Miranda de Ebro Camp; 1940-1947 Miranda was the central camp in Spain for foreign prisoners. This camp was used for several kinds of prisoners. The three main categories were: international brigadiers (captured during the Civil War); male prisoners who illegally crossed the border (women were not held in military camps, but provincial prisons); and ...

Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku

Collectie 528: Boesten, L.T. Eerste Verbindingsofficier bij de Prisoner of War Executive

"A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winning historian. Keith Lowe, an award-winning author of books on WWII, saw monuments around the world taken down in political protest and began to wonder what monuments built to commemorate WWII say about us today. Focusing on these monuments, Prisoners of History looks at World War II and the way it still ...

Collectie 181j_ENG: Inventory

Copyright Holder: Ms. Debbie Drennan

H.J. de Vries > KNIL, 1945 - 1949 > Instructies aan officieren van het KNIL en van de Koninklijke Marine met betrekking tot 'Prisoner of war repatriation field teams' en de verzorging van ex-krijgsgevangenen, door onder meer kolonel H.J. de Vries en kapitein-luitenant-ter-zee H.A. van Foreest, augustus 1945