Barbed Wire Diplomacy
Britain, Germany, and the Politics of Prisoners of War, 1939-1945
Neville Wylie
Table of Contents
Introduction: Barbed Wire Diplomacy: Britain, Germany and the politics of prisoners of war during the Second World War
1. Explaining coordination and cooperation in Anglo-German relations, 1939-1945
2. Building the interwar POW regime
3. POWs and Anglo-German relations, 1939-1941
4. The amateurs try their hand. The provision of relief parcels, 1940-41
5. The POW regime, October 1941 - December, 1942: from 'cooperation' to 'coordination'
6. The shadow of the shackling crisis, 1943
7. The role of the Dominions in British POW policy
8. The limits of attraction: British policy and the 'Great Escape', 1944
9. Avoiding Gotterdammerung, 1945
Conclusion