The Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the Great War and Beyond

282 Pages·2015·3.612 MB·English

by  Brian K. Feltman

The Stigma of Surrender
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t h e s t i g m a o f
SURRENDER
German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood
in the Great War and Beyond
brian k . fel tman
The University of North Carolina Press / Chapel Hill
© 2015 The University of North Carolina Press
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Cover illustration: “An Advanced Cage for German Prisoners, 1917,”
by Adrian Hill. Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum.
Complete cataloging information for this title is available from
the Library of Congress.
978-1-4696-1993-4 (cloth: alk. paper)
978-1-4696-1994-1 (ebook)
Portions of Chapters 1 and 2 appeared earlier in somewhat different form in
Brian K. Feltman, “Letters from Captivity: The First World War Correspondence of the
German Prisoners of War in the United Kingdom,” in Finding Common Ground:
New Directions in First World War Studies, ed. Michael Neiberg and Jennifer Keene
(Boston: Brill, 2011), 87–110. The author thanks the publisher for its
permission to use this material.
For Carrie
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Contents
Acknowledgments, xi
Abbreviations, xv
Introduction, 1
1 / Between Victory and Death, 13
2 / In British Hands, 43
Anglo-German Encounters
3 / Separation, 73
The Psychological Struggles of Captivity
4 / Redemptive Manhood, 106
Organizing a New Theater of War
5 / Prisoners of Peace, 136
The Postwar Captivity Experience
6 / National Socialism as Redemption?, 165
Former Prisoners in Interwar Germany
Conclusion, 194
Notes, 201
Bibliography, 239
Index, 257
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