Behind Barbed Wire
Subtitle: An Encyclopedia of Concentration and Prisoner-of-War Camps
By: edited by Alexander Mikaberidze
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2023
Place of publication: Santa Barbara
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9798400617355
Subjects: War crimes
Description: An indispensable reference on concentration camps, death camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and military prisons offering broad historical coverage as well as detailed analysis of the nature of captivity in modern conflict.  This comprehensive reference work examines internment, forced labor, and extermination during times of war and genocide, with a focus on the 20th and 21st centuries and particular attention paid to World War II and recent conflicts in the Middle East. It explores internment as it has been used as a weapon and led to crimes against humanity and is ideal for students of global studies, history, and political science as well as politically and socially aware general readers.  In addition to entries on such notorious camps as Abu Ghraib, Andersonville, Auschwitz, and the Hanoi Hilton, the encyclopedia includes profiles of key perpetrators of camp and prison atrocities and more than a dozen curated and contextualized primary source documents that further illuminate the subject. Primary sources include United Nations documents outlining the treatment of prisoners of war, government reports of infamous camp and prison atrocities, and oral histories from survivors of these notorious facilities.
Table of contents: title: Preface A-Z Entries Abu Ghraib Afghanistan American Civil War (1861-1865) American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) Andersonville Prison Apache Wars (1861-1886) Arbeitslager Argentina Armenian Genocide Auschwitz Australia Badaber Revolt (1985) Bagram Air Base Banjica Concentration Camp Bataan Death March (1942) Batu Lintang Camp Belene Camp Belomorkanal Belzec Bergen-Belsen Berger, Gottlob (1896-1975) Beria, Lavrenty (1899-1953) Berman, Matvei (1898-1939) Bicycle Camp Birkenau Bloemfontein Concentration Camp Boer War (1899-1902) Bosnian War Brändström, Elsa (1888-1948) Britain British Army Aid Group Brussels, Declaration of (1874) Buchenwald Bulgaria, Internment and Labor Camps Bullet Decree (1944) Burma-Thailand Railway Bushell, Roger Joyce (1910-1944) Butovo Firing Range Bykivnia Mass Grave Site Cabanatuan Cabrera Cambodian Killing Fields Camp Bucca Camp Chase Camp Douglas Camp Ford Camp O'Donnell Camp 22 Canada Cavell, Edith Louisa (1865-1915) Celebici Camp Central Agency for Prisoners of War Changi Chelmno Chieti Chile China Choeung Ek Colditz Concentration Camps Confederate States of America Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984) Cowra Incident Dachau Dartmoor Massacre (1815) Davao Prison and Penal Farm Death Camps Defence Regulation 18B Deir ez Zor Denmark Dmitrovlag/Dmitlag Dora-Mittelbau Drancy Dulag Luft Eichmann, Adolf (1906-1962) Eichmans, Fyodor (1897-1938) Elmira Prison (New York) Engerau Trials (1945-1954) Extermination Centers Far East, British Military Trials Featherston Camp (New Zealand) Filtration Camps in Chechnya Finland Flick Case (1947) Flossenbürg Foca Camp Fort Cass Fossoli di Carpi France Franz, Kurt (1914-1998) French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era Gas Chambers Geneva Convention Protocol I (1977) Geneva Convention Relating to Prisoners of War (1929) Germany Gestapo Gospic Great Escape Gross-Rosen Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp Gulag Heim, Aribert (1914-1992) Herero Genocide, Concentration Camps and Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945) Hoa Lo Prison (Hanoi Hilton) Hoess, Rudolf (1900-1947) Holocaust, The Holzminden Homecoming, Operation (1973) I.G. Farben Case (1947) Indian Removal Act (1830) Internment of Japanese Americans J.A. Topf & Söhne Jadovno Concentration Camp Japan Jasenovac Kang Kek Iew (1942-) Kapos Katyn Forest Massacre (1943) Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) Kinderblock 66 Koch Trial (1951) Kogan, Lazar (1889-1939) Koje-Do Incident (1952) Korean War Kraków-Plaszow Kramer, Josef (1906-1945) Krupp Case (1948) Lamsdorf Libby Prison Lieber Code Los Baños Majdanek Manjaca Mao Zedong (1893-1976) Maschke Commission Mauthausen-Gusen Medical Experimentation during World War II Mengele, Josef (1911-1979) Monowitz Natzweiler-Struthof Neuengamme Niederhagen NKVD 202 Norman Cross North Korea Nuremberg Trials (1945-1946) Oberheuser, Herta (1911-1978) Okahandja Omarska Palawan Massacre (1944) Persian Gulf War (1991) Pliner, Izrail Pohl, Oswald (1892-1951) Pul-i Charkhi (Pul-E-Charkhi) Qala-i-Jangi Revolt (2001) Rab Rape Camps, Former Yugoslavia Ravensbrück Rheinwiesenlager (1945) Ruhleben Sachsenhausen Sajmište Salaspils Salisbury Prison (North Carolina) Sandakan Death Marches Sandarmokh Sarposa Selarang Barracks Incident (1942) Seminole Wars Serpantinka Sevvostlag Shark Island Sisak Slave Labor (World War II) Sobibór Solovki Special Camp Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (1918-2008) Sonderaktion 1005 Sonderkommando Soviet Union, Deportations in Soviet Union, POW Camps (1941-1956) Spanish-American War (1898) Srebrenica Massacre Sremska Mitrovica Sri Lanka SS-Totenkopfverbände Stajicevo Stalag Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) Stangl, Franz (1908-1971) Stutthof Swakopmund Sweden Switzerland Theresienstadt Torrens Island Trail of Tears (1838) Trawniki Men Treblinka Trostinets Tuchola Camp Tuol Sleng Prison Unit 731 U.S. POW Camps (1861-1865) U.S. POW Camps (1941-1948) Ustaše Vaivara Vietnam War (1964-1973) Vorkuta Camps Vught Westerbork Windhoek Wirth, Christian (1885-1944) World War I Prisoners of War World War II Prisoners of War Yokohama Trials (1946-1951) Yugoslavia Zamperini, Louis (1917-2014) Zyklon B Case (1946) Primary Documents Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field (Lieber Code) (1863) Private Prescott Tracy on the Conditions at the Andersonville Prison Camp (1864) Emily Hobhouse on the Conditions at the British Concentration Camps in South Africa (1901) Peter Moor's Account of the Herero Genocide (1904-1905) Excerpts from the 1907 Hague Convention IV with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land (1907) Rudolf Hoess's Testimony on the Activities at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp (1946) Excerpts from the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1949) Excerpts from Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (1977) Taguba Report on Treatment of Abu Ghraib Prisoners in Iraq (2004) The Guantanamo Executive Order (2018) Bibliography Contributor List Index About the Editor