"The contribution of this book is a welcome addition for anyone interested in the history of war captivity. This book would be particularly useful as a teaching tool. ... This material is not only useful for a better understanding of the chapters, but also for undergraduate students exploring methodological approaches and interpretation of archival documents. ... The enormous effort made by the contributors is a most welcomed achievement." (Jean-Michel Turcotte, Canadian Military History, Vol. 32 (1), 2023)
Introduction; Brian K. Feltman and Matthias Reiss.- PART I: THE FIRST WORLD WAR.- Sexual Desire in Enemy Hands: The Sex Lives of German Prisoners of War in The United Kingdom, 1914-1919; Brian K. Feltman.- Sex on the Margins: Fraternizing in Times of War and Revolution; Lena Radauer.- ‘Dishonorable’ Women and ‘Foreign’ Men: Illicit Sexuality as Challenge to the German Volksgemeinschaft, 1914-1918; Lisa Todd.- Encounters beyond Frontlines: Prisoners of War and Women in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War; Julia Walleczek-Fritz.- PART II: THE SECOND WORLD WAR.- Community and Gender During War: The Amorous Relationships of Western POWs and German Women in Nazi Germany; Raffael Scheck.- Fueling the Moral Panic: Fraternization between Axis Prisoners of War and Women in the United States during World War II; Matthias Reiss.- 'Helmut can be a worker, not a lover': Relationships between Germans POWs and French Women in Post-War France, 1944-1948); Fabien Théofilakis.- Intimacy, Treason, and Racial Defilement: POWs and Women in the Soviet-German War; Andreas Hilger.- 'Undesirable Familiarity': British Womanhood and Italian Prisoners in World War II;Barbara Hately and Bob Moore.- The End of a Phenomenon? Fraternization after the Second World War; Brian K. Feltman and Matthias Reiss.
Matthias Reiss is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Exeter, UK.
Brian K. Feltman is Associate Professor of History at Georgia Southern University, USA.