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- 9781905095414
- EAN
- 9781905095414
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Reaching Across the Barbed Wire: French PoWs, Internees from the Channel Island and Jewish Prisoners from Bergen-Belsen in Schloss Wurzach (1940-1945)
- Item Height
- 265mm
- Publisher
- Channel Island Publishing
- Topic
- History
- Item Width
- 215mm
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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In the autumn of 1942, 618 'casualties of war' - men, women, children and babes in arms - deported on Hitler's orders from the Channel Island of Jersey, were interned in a Baroque castle in the heart of a small southern German town, close to the borders with Switzerland and Austria. Who could have imagined when the foundations of the Wurzach Schloss were laid in 1723, that one day, it would witness the reconciliation between former enemies. Built originally for the aristocratic House of Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach, from the 1920s the Schloss was a Catholic boarding school for boys. It was commandeered and turned into a camp for French (predominantly Corsican officers) prisoners of war, with a Hitler Youth camp later established in the grounds. The arrival of the families from a small island so far away, interned because of their British lineage behind barbed wire in the heart of a community thus far removed from the horrors of the war raging in Europe, shocked townsfolk. Yet far worse sights were to come with the arrival two years later of Dutch Jews from the concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen. Historian Gisela Rothenhausler undertook extensive research into this short, but eventful period in the history of the Schloss. At the centre of the research lay her interest in the fate and the daily lives of those people held behind barbed wire - many of whom in the process of her research have become dear friends. Her work, now translated from the original German published in 2008, is based on a wealth of files and personal documents as well as interviews with those from both sides of the barbed wire: prisoner and captor: friend and foe. The end result of four years research - undertaken in Germany, France, the UK, Switzerland and the Netherlands - is a tension-filled story taken from personal testimonies and local, regional and national archives. At the same time, the author sets the story of the camps in the Schloss against the overall context of the rise of the Nazi Party and the events that plunged the world into six devastating and murderess years of war. The book is a piece of history that will forever link two small communities that would never have come together.
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Channel Island Publishing
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9781905095414
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Reaching Across the Barbed Wire: French PoWs, Internees from the Channel Island and Jewish Prisoners from Bergen-Belsen in Schloss Wurzach (1940-1945)
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
384 Pages
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265mm
Item Width
215mm
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