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PublisherI. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
ISBN-101784535036
ISBN-139781784535032
eBay Product ID (ePID)228728655
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBritish Pows and the Holocaust : Witnessing the Nazi Atrocities
Publication Year2017
SubjectHolocaust, Military / World War II, Europe / Germany, Modern / 20th Century, Genocide & War Crimes
TypeTextbook
AuthorRussell Wallis
Subject AreaPolitical Science, History
SeriesInternational Library of Twentieth Century History Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight16.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Reviews'Conventional wisdom asserted that POWs were usually deprived of outside information, and as such the most common experience was boredom brought on by intellectual isolation. By using recent Holocaust historiography, Wallis (independent historian) is able to challenge that conventional wisdom... Recommended. General and specialized collections, all levels.', "[The] book raises interesting questions on the uses and abuses of testimonies and the retelling of stories in the service of constructing postwar public narratives and memory. In this respect, British POWs and the Holocaust is recommended to anyone interested in the public history of British POWs in the Second World War and the question of witnessing the Holocaust." - H-War, [The] book raises interesting questions on the uses and abuses of testimonies and the retelling of stories in the service of constructing postwar public narratives and memory. In this respect, British POWs and the Holocaust is recommended to anyone interested in the public history of British POWs in the Second World War and the question of witnessing the Holocaust., "[The] book raises interesting questions on the uses and abuses of testimonies and the retelling of stories in the service of constructing postwar public narratives and memory. In this respect, British POWs and the Holocaust is recommended to anyone interested in the public history of British POWs in the Second World War and the question of witnessing the Holocaust." -- H-War
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal940.5318
SynopsisIn the network of Nazi camps across wartime Europe, prisoner of war institutions were often located next to the slave camps for Jews and Slavs; so that British PoWs across occupied Europe, over 200,000 men, were witnesses to the holocaust. The majority of those incarcerated were aware of the camps, but their testimony has never been fully published. Here, using eye-witness accounts held by the Imperial War Museum, Russell Wallis rewrites the history of British prisoners and the Holocaust during the Second World War. He uncovers the histories of men such as Cyril Rofe, an Anglo-Jewish PoW who escaped from a work camp in Upper Silesia and fled eastwards towards the Russian lines, recounting his shattering experiences of the so-called 'bloodlands' of eastern Poland. Wallis also shows how and why the knowledge of those in the armed forces was never fully publicised, and how some PoW accounts were later exaggerated or fictionalised. British PoWs and the Holocaust will be an essential new oral history of the holocaust and an extraordinary insight into what was known and when about the greatest crime of the 20th century.
LC Classification NumberD804.3
