Civilian Internment during the First World War - A European and Global History, 1914-1920

von: Matthew Stibbe

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

ISBN: 9781137571915 , 342 Seiten

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Civilian Internment during the First World War - A European and Global History, 1914-1920


 

Acknowledgements

5

Contents

6

Abbreviations

7

Glossary of Terms

9

Chapter 1: Introduction

10

The Historical Specificity of First World War Internment

15

Sources and the Question of Differentiation Between Civilian and Military Captivity

22

The Structure of This Book

25

Chapter 2: First World War Internment Across the Globe

40

Germans and Austro-Hungarians

44

The German and Habsburg Empires’ Response

55

Ottoman Turkey, Bulgaria and the Balkans

65

Chapter 3: Internment and War Governance in the First World War

86

France

90

Britain

98

Germany

107

Austria-Hungary

111

War Governance, Camps and the Turkish Genocide Against the Ottoman Armenians, 1915–16

121

Chapter 4: Imagining Internment: International Law, Social Order and National Community

138

International Law and Perceptions of the ‘Other’: The View of Officials

143

Reprisals and Punishments

154

Internment and Social Control

161

Internment and Ideas About ‘National Community’

172

Chapter 5: Internment and International Activism: The Search for More Humane Alternatives

192

Pre-war Precedents: Emily Hobhouse and the South African Camps

195

The Auskunfts- und Hilfsstelle für Deutsche im Ausland und Ausländer in Deutschland

198

The Auskunfts- und Hilfsstelle and the ICRC

204

Neutral Internment in Switzerland and the Netherlands

213

Barbed-Wire Disease and the ‘Medicalisation’ of Internment

220

Chapter 6: (Not) Ending Internment: The Years 1918–20

247

Wartime Civilian Captivity in Russia from Tsar Nicholas II to Lenin

251

Germany and Austria-Hungary

259

Imperial Britain and Its Allies in Africa, Asia and the Atlantic Ocean

268

France, Italy and the ‘Little Entente’ (Romania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia)

276

The ‘Red Scare’: The Americas

281

Chapter 7: Conclusion and Epilogue

298

Bibliography

322

Archival Sources

322

Austria

322

Germany

322

Italy

323

Portugal

323

Switzerland

323

United Kingdom/British Isles

323

United States

323

Contemporary Government Publications

323

Red Cross, Quaker and Medical Publications

325

Eye-Witness and Documentary Accounts, Diaries, Memoirs and Other Printed Primary Sources

326

Select List of Secondary Sources

327

Unpublished Dissertations

336

Novels

337

Index

338