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29 septembre 2016
- handle: 10670/1.5u9fke
- isbn: 9783902811615
- eisbn: 9783903122352
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Günter Bischof et al., « Lives behind Barbed Wire », innsbruck university press, ID : 10670/1.5u9fke
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Introduction “Siberia” and the Rheinwiesenlager have become metaphors for the suffering of German and Austrian prisoners of war (POWs) in the World War II era. On the one hand the endless columns of exhausted, bent over, freezing figures, tracking through snow covered fields and plains, and close to collapse from hunger, thirst, and sickness, not infrequently death. On the other hand, tens of thousands of emaciated and listless men crowded into temporary enclosures — cages, under open skies, ...