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At first glance, the field of prisoner-of-war history, especially with regard to the Second World War, may strike one as cluttered with innumerable writings. Many articles and memoirs await the interested reader. Likewise, in the area of popular culture, many films and television programs and series were produced after the close of hostilities in 1945; the plight of the prisoner-of-war has been raised to heroic levels, as in Stalag 13, as well as lowered to the level of farce, as in Hogan’s Heroes.
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See for instance Diether Cartellieri, “Erinnerungsveranderungen und Zeitabstand — Ein Beitrag zum Problem der Erinnerungsleistungen in Abhangigkeit vom Behaltensintervall,” in Erich Maschke, ed., Die deutschen Kriegsgefangenen des Zweiten Weltkriegs: Eine Zusammenfassung (Munich: Verlag Ernst und Werner Gieseking, 1974). [Band XV of the multivolume series, ed. Erich Maschke, Zur Geschichte der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen des Zweiten Weltkrieg (Munich: Verlag Ernst und Werner Gieseking, 1962–74), hereafter referred to as the Maschke Series.]
Yves Durand, La Captivite, Histoire des Prisonniers de Guerre Franfais, 19391945 (Paris: Federation Nationale des Combattants Prisonniers de Guerre et Combattants d’Algêrie, Tunisie, Maroc, 1982).
Gerhard Hirschfeld, ed., The Policies of Genocide: Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany (Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1986); Christian Streit, Keine Kameraden: die Wehrmacht und die sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen 1941–1945 (Bonn: Verlag J. H. W. Dietz Nachf., 1997); Alfred Streim, Die Behandlung sowjetischer Kriegsgefangener im “Fall Barbcirosa” (Heidelberg: Miiller Verlag, 1981).
Siegfried Schönborn, Kriegsgefangene und Fremdarbeiter in unserer Heimat 1939–1945 (Freigericht: Naumann, 1990); Erich Kosthorst, Konzentrationsund Strafgefangenenlager im Dritten Reich: Beispiel Emslang: Zusatzteil, Kriegsgefangenenlager: Dokumentation und Analyse zum Verhaltnis von NSRegime und Justiz, 3 vols. (Düsseldorf: Droste, 1983); Frank Eisermann, ed., Main-Kinzig-Kreis: Dokumentation zum Schicksal der Zwangsarbeiter und Kriegsgefangenen, der Fluchtlinge und Vertriebenen im Main-Kinzig-Kreis (Hanau: Main-Kinzig-Kreis, 1993).
David Rolf, Prisoners of the Reich (London: Cooper, 1988).
David Foy, For You the War is Over: American Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany (New York: Stein and Day, 1984).
Rolf’s bibliography refers only to four series of files as having been used at the the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv in Freiburg (BA-MA).
David Alden Foy, “‘For You the War is Over’: The Treatment and Life of United States Army and Army Air Corps Personnel Interned in Pow Camps in Germany” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arkansas, 1981).
Andrew S. Hasselbring, “American Prisoners of War in the Third Reich” (Ph.D. Dissertation, Temple University, 1990).
Jonathan Vance, Objects of Concern: Canadian Prisoners of War Through the Twentieth Century (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1994).
Patsy Adam-Smith, Prisoners of War, From Gallipoli to Korea (Victoria, Australia: Viking Penguin Books, 1992), ch. 2, “World War II; Prisoners of the Germans,” pp. 88–203.
Louis Althusser, Journal de captivite: Stalag X A (Paris: IMEC, 1992); D. Guy Adams, Backwater: Oflag IX A/H Lower Camp (New York, 1944); Jim Longson and Christine Taylor, An Arnhem Odyssey: “Market Garden” to Stalag IV B (Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1991); Djamel Dib, L’archipel du Stalag (Algiers: Enteprises nationale du livre, 1989).
Walter Morrison, Flak and Ferrets (London: Sentinel, 1995); Jack Pringle, Coldtiz Last Stop (Sussex, UK: Temple House Books, 1995); and especially P. R. Reid, Colditz: The Full Story (London: Macmillan, 1984).
Werner Borgsen, Stalag X B Sanbostel: zur Geschichte eines Kriegsgefangenenund KZ-Auffanglagers in Norddeutschland, 1939–1945 (Bremen: Edition Temmen, 1991).
Arthur A. Durand, Stalag Luft III: The Secret Story (Baton Rouge, LA: Lousiana State University Press, 1988).
W. Franklin Mellor, ed., Official Medical History of the Second World War: Casualties and Medical Statistics (London: HMSO, 1972), pp. 835–8.
C. P. Stacey, The Canadian Army, 1939–1945 (Ottawa: E. Cloutier, King’s Printer, 1948).
André Durand, From Sarajevo to Hiroshima; History of the International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1984). The Institut Henri Dunant is the official research institute of the International Red Cross, whose archives are opened only to their own researchers, and not to the public.
Colonel George C. Lewis and Captain John Mewha, Department of the Army Pamphlet no. 20–213: History of Prisoner of War Utilization by the United States Army 1776–1945 (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1955). Despite the sweeping range indicated in the title, this volume focuses mostly on the use of German prisoners of war in the United States during the Second World War.
John Ellis, World War II: A Statistical Survey (New York: Facts on File, 1993), pp. 253–6.
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Vourkoutiotis, V. (2003). Introduction. In: Prisoners of War and the German High Command. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598300_1
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