Sarah Ann Frank Hostages of Empire: Colonial Prisoners of War in Vichy France 9781496207777

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Автор: Sarah Ann Frank
Название: Hostages of Empire: Colonial Prisoners of War in Vichy France
ISBN: 9781496207777
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История Европы

Вторая мировая война

ISBN-10: 1496207777
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 376
Вес: 0.72 кг.
Дата издания: 01.07.2021
Серия: France overseas: studies in empire and decolonization
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 2 maps, 2 tables, index
Размер: 229 x 152 x 25
Ключевые слова: Second World War, HISTORY / Europe / France,HISTORY / Military / World War II
Подзаголовок: Colonial prisoners of war in vichy france
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Поставляется из: Англии
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2022 Heggoy Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society
Royal Historical Societys 2022 Gladstone Book Prize Shortlist

Hostages of Empire combines a social history of colonial prisoner-of-war experiences with a broader analysis of their role in Vichy’s political tensions with the country’s German occupiers. The colonial prisoners of war came from across the French Empire, they fought in the Battle for France in 1940, and they were captured by the German Army. Unlike their French counterparts, who were taken to Germany, the colonial POWs were interned in camps called Frontstalags throughout occupied France. This decision to keep colonial POWs in France defined not only their experience of captivity but also how the French and German authorities reacted to them.

Hostages of Empire examines how the entanglement of French national pride after the 1940 defeat and the need for increased imperial control shaped the experiences of 85,000 soldiers in German captivity. Sarah Ann Frank analyzes the nature of Vichy’s imperial commitments and collaboration with its German occupiers and argues that the Vichy regime actively improved conditions of captivity for colonial prisoners in an attempt to secure their present and future loyalty. This French “magnanimity” toward the colonial prisoners was part of a broader framework of racial difference and hierarchy. As such, the relatively dignified treatment of colonial prisoners must be viewed as a paradox in light of Vichy and Free French racism in the colonies and the Vichy regime’s complicity in the Holocaust. Hostages of Empire seeks to reconcile two previously rather distinct histories: that of metropolitan France and that of the French colonies during World War II.

Hostages of Empire: Colonial Prisoners of War in Vichy France, Sarah Ann Frank