Behind Barbed Wire: An Encyclopedia Of Concentration And Prisoner-Of-War Camps

417 Pages·2019·21.434 MB·English

by  Alexander Mikaberidze

Behind Barbed Wire
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Behind Barbed Wire
An Encyclopedia of Concentration and
Prisoner- of- War Camps
Alexander Mikaberidze, Editor
Copyright © 2019 by ABC- CLIO, LLC
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Mikaberidze, Alexander, editor.
Title: Behind barbed wire : an encyclopedia of concentration and
prisoner-of-war camps / Alexander Mikaberidze, editor.
Description: Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, 2019. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018020587 (print) | LCCN 2018026294 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781440857621 (ebook) | ISBN 9781440857614 (hardcopy : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Prisoner-of-war camps—Encyclopedias. | Concentration
camps—Encyclopedias. | Military prisons—Encyclopedias.
Classification: LCC UB800 (ebook) | LCC UB800 .B45 2019 (print) |
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LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018020587
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who died in German captivity in February 1943
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Contents
Preface xvii
A– Z Entries
Abu Ghraib 1
Af ghan i stan 3
American Civil War (1861–1865) 5
American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) 6
Andersonville Prison 11
Apache Wars (1861–1886) 13
Arbeitslager 14
Argentina 15
Armenian Genocide 17
Auschwitz 19
Australia 21
Badaber Revolt (1985) 23
Bagram Air Base 24
Banjica Concentration Camp 24
Bataan Death March (1942) 25
Batu Lintang Camp 27
Belene Camp 27
Belomorkanal 28
Bełżec 28
Bergen- Belsen 29
viii Contents
Berger, Gottlob (1896–1975) 30
Beria, Lavrenty (1899–1953) 31
Berman, Matvei (1898–1939) 33
Bicycle Camp 33
Birkenau 34
Bloemfontein Concentration Camp 35
Boer War (1899–1902) 36
Bosnian War 39
Brändström, Elsa (1888–1948) 41
Britain 41
British Army Aid Group 43
Brussels, Declaration of (1874) 43
Buchenwald 44
Bulgaria, Internment and Labor Camps 47
Bullet Decree (1944) 48
Burma- Thailand Railway 48
Bushell, Roger Joyce (1910–1944) 50
Butovo Firing Range 50
Bykivnia Mass Grave Site 51
Cabanatuan 53
Cabrera 54
Cambodian Killing Fields 55
Camp Bucca 56
Camp Chase 56
Camp Douglas 57
Camp Ford 58
Camp O’Donnell 59
Camp 22 60
Canada 60
Cavell, Edith Louisa (1865–1915) 63
Čelebići Camp 64
Contents ix
Central Agency for Prisoners of War 65
Changi 65
Chełmno 66
Chieti 67
Chile 68
China 68
Choeung Ek 69
Colditz 70
Concentration Camps 71
Confederate States of Amer i ca 75
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment (1984) 76
Cowra Incident 78
Dachau 81
Dartmoor Massacre (1815) 83
Davao Prison and Penal Farm 84
Death Camps 85
Defence Regulation 18B 86
Deir ez Zor 86
Denmark 87
Dmitrovlag/Dmitlag 88
Dora-M ittelbau 89
Drancy 90
Dulag Luft 92
Eichmann, Adolf (1906–1962) 95
Eichmans, Fyodor (1897–1938) 96
Elmira Prison (New York) 97
Engerau Trials (1945–1954) 97
Extermination Centers 99
Far East, British Military Trials 101
Featherston Camp (New Zealand) 103