Research Catalog

Title

Crimes against POWs : responsibility of the Wehrmacht / by Szymon Datner.

Author

Datner, Szymon.

Publication

Warszawa : Zachodnia Agencja Prasowa, 1964.

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Details

Description

xxx, 382 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports.; 21 cm.

Summary

"When the conference of 47 countries in Geneva wound up its proceedings on 27 July 1929 by adopting a new international Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, it seemed that one chapter in the history of war -- the brutal treatment of those captured in battle -- had come to a close. The road covered over the centuries had been a long one : the wholesale slaughter of prisoners and the ruthless exploitation of their slave labour had gradually given way to respect for the captives' human dignity and, eventually, the elaboration of international legal rules to govern their treatment ... During the Second World War, Germany trampled upon all the rules of international law, including those concerning war prisoners"--Page xv-xvi.

Uniform Title

Zbrodnie Wehrmachtu na jeńcach wojennych armii regularnych w II wojnie światowej. English

Alternative Title

Zbrodnie Wehrmachtu na jeńcach wojennych armii regularnych w II wojnie światowej.

Subject

• Germany. Wehrmacht
• World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities
• World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German
• Germany > Armed Forces

Note

• Translation of: Zbrodnie Wehrmachtu na jeńcach wojennych armii regularnych w II wognie światowej.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-[370]) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Structure of prisoner-of-war system -- Crimes against war prisoners in operation areas -- Discrimination against certain categories of war prisoners -- Murder of members of Allied commando units, shot down airmen and paratroopers -- Maltreatment of prisoners of war in transport -- Crimes in POW camps -- Crimes against escaped prisoners of war -- Crimes against prisoners of war in German concentration camps -- Medical experiments on war prisoners -- Crimes against sick and wounded prisoners of war and war invalids -- OKW plans on the eve of defeat.

LCCN

^^^67056868^

OCLC

• 5975828
• SCSB-13327173

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library