World War I prisoners of war in Germany | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-14

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00:00:54 1 The Hague Conventions
00:02:56 2 Conditions of detention
00:05:08 2.1 The camps
00:05:16 2.1.1 The types of camps
00:05:24 2.1.1.1 The iMannschaftslager/i
00:06:42 2.1.1.2 Officers’ camps (iOffizierslager/i)
00:08:25 2.1.1.3 The iDurchgangslager/i
00:09:12 2.1.1.4 Reprisal camps
00:10:36 2.1.2 Guard personnel
00:12:46 2.2 Food
00:16:52 2.3 Hygiene and illnesses
00:20:16 2.3.1 Psychological illnesses
00:21:20 2.4 Mail
00:22:59 2.5 Cultural and religious life
00:24:49 2.6 Detention and sentencings
00:27:44 2.7 Work
00:31:03 2.8 Propaganda
00:31:27 2.8.1 Among the population
00:33:29 2.8.2 Inside the camps
00:34:51 3 Escapes
00:38:31 4 The role of humanitarian organizations
00:41:06 5 Civilian prisoners and deportees
00:43:02 6 Wounded prisoners
00:44:29 7 Prisoner exchanges, internment in neutral countries, and repatriation
00:47:54 8 The return from captivity
00:49:19 8.1 French prisoners' return
00:51:23 8.2 British and American prisoners' return
00:51:55 8.3 Russian prisoners' return
00:52:41 8.4 Other prisoners' return
00:53:08 9 The prisoners and historiography
00:54:59 10 Recognition for the prisoners
00:58:41 11 Leipzig trials
00:59:23 12 Memoirs
01:03:24 13 In the arts
01:03:32 13.1 Cinema
01:04:28 13.2 Theatre



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The situation of World War I prisoners of war in Germany is an aspect of the conflict little covered by historical research. However, the number of soldiers imprisoned reached a little over seven million for all the belligerents, of whom around 2,400,000 were held by Germany.
Starting in 1915, the German authorities put in place a system of camps, nearly three hundred in all, and did not hesitate to resort to denutrition, punishments and psychological mobbing; incarceration was also combined with methodical exploitation of the prisoners. This prefigured the systematic use of prison camps on a grand scale during the 20th century.
However, the captivity organised by the German military authorities also contributed to creating exchanges among peoples and led a number of prisoners to reflect on their involvement in the war and relation with their homeland.