Incarceration and Regime Change

Christian G. De Vito is Research Associate at the University of Leicester. He has published extensively on the social history of prisons, convict labour, and prisoners’ movements.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChristian G. De Vito, Ralf Futselaar, Helen GreversChapter 1. “Gloomy Dungeons”: Provisional prisons in Madrid in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War (1939–1945)Alicia Quintero MaquaChapter 2. Paradoxical outcomes?: Incarceration, war and regime changes in Italy, 1943–1954Christian G. De VitoChapter 3. Life in the Frontstalags: Colonial Prisoners of War in Occupied France, 1940-1942Sarah FrankChapter 4. Containing “potentially subversive” subjects: The internment of members of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands Indies, 1940–1946Esther ZwinkelsChapter 5. The detention of social outsiders between social reform, annihilation and custody: The municipal workhouse and prison of Berlin-Rummelsburg from Weimar Republic to GDRThomas IrmerChapter 6. A triumph for the protectional model? How Belgian institutions for delinquent children dealt with young collaborators (1944–1950)Aurore FrançoisChapter 7. The ambiguities of Gendarmeries’ relationship to internment around World War II (Belgium, France, The Netherlands)Jonas CampionAfterword: An essay on space and timeJane CaplanBibliographyIndex

“This is an interesting and thought-provoking edited volume that adds greatly to our understanding of  incarceration practices during wars and regime changes and would be recommended reading  for anyone wishing to pursue the topic.” • European History Quarterly“This volume brings together pioneering work that provides a welcome perspective not only on the treatment of prisoners, but also on how they were understood during the Second World War—a crucial issue in light of the fact that these were people interned not so much for what they did, but who they were.” • Raffael Scheck, Colby College