This book brings together historians from Great Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Austria, and Latvia who have worked and published on fraternisation between Prisoners of War and local women during either the First or Second World War, providing the first comparative study of this multi-faceted phenomenon in different belligerent countries. By focusing on prisoners as wartime migrants and studying the nature and impact of their interactions with the local female population, this book expands the existing framework on prisoner of war studies. Its substantial scope and comparative approach make it an important point of reference in the growing research field of POW studies.
Author(s): Matthias Reiss, Brian K. Feltman
Series: Genders and Sexualities in History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 313
City: Cham
Series Editor Preface
Acknowledgments
Praise for Prisoners of War and Local Women in Europe and the United States, 1914–1956
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Prologue: Captive Labor and Fraternization Before the First World War
Sexual Desire in Enemy Hands: The Sex Lives of German Prisoners of War in the UK, 1914–1919
Sex and the Great War
The Sexual Struggles of Captivity
Consorting with the Enemy in the UK
Relationships from the German Perspective
Conclusions
“Dishonorable” Women and “Foreign” Men: Illicit Sexuality as Challenge to the German Volksgemeinschaft, 1914–1918
Encounters Beyond Front Lines: Prisoners of War and Locals in the Habsburg Empire During the First World War
POWs Working in Close Proximity to Civilians
Wartime Interactions, Consequences, and the “Dableiber”
Conclusions
“Undesirable Familiarity”: British Women and Italian Prisoners of War, 1941–1946
Introduction
The Italian Prisoners in Britain
Legislative Controls
The Public and the Prisoners
The Nature and Extent of Fraternization
A Collision between State Expediency and Public Morality
Fueling the Morale Panic: Axis Prisoners of War and American Women in the United States During World War II
Fraternization: The Italians
Fraternization: The Germans
Conclusion
Community, Gender, and Race During War: The Amorous Relationships of POWs and German Women in World War II
Denunciation and Ostracism in a Factory Setting
A Rural Entanglement
Jewish POWs on Trial
Soviet Prisoners and German Women
Conclusions
“Helmut Can Be a Worker, Not a Lover”: Relationships Between Germans POWs and French Women in Postwar France (1944–1948)
Relations Between German Prisoners and French Women in the Liberation Press, or Forbidden Love Affairs
The Republican State and the Definition of a Sexual Order: Regulatory Love Affairs
When Women Testify: The Impossible Loves in Gendarmerie Reports
Conclusion
Intimacy, “Treason,” and “Ideological Transgression”: POWs and Women on the Eastern Front of the Second World War
Captivity and Love on the Eastern Front: Cases, Narratives, and Sources
Intimacy with the Captured Enemy: The View from Above
The Reich
Nazi-Occupied Territories: “Ostland”
The Soviet Union
Gender Roles in War and Post-war Societies
Case Studies
Soviet POWs on Reich Territory: Partners and Persecution
Elisabeth W. and Ivan S.
Anna Sämann and Vasily Kozlov
Soviet POWs in “Ostland”: Children’s Perspectives
German POWs in the USSR: Partners and Memories
German POWs and Latvian Women After 1944: Children’s Perspectives
Anita* and Karl
Olga Kroja and Mihails L.
Conclusion
Epilogue: Captive Labor and Fraternization After the Second World War
Appendix
Selected Bibliography
General Works on War/Prisoners of War
Conflicts Before World War I
World War I
World War II
Conflicts After World War II
Other Topics
Documentaries and Websites
Index
