A Materiality of Internment

More than two thousand people from the British Channel Islands were deported to and interned in Germany during the Second World War, making up as many as 60% of all interned British citizens in occupied territory during this period.

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Dr Gilly Carr is Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Holocaust Heritage at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. She publishes in the fields of archaeology, heritage studies, Holocaust studies and history and is also the author of seven monographs, including Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: A materiality of internment 2. A history of the deportation of Channel Islanders 3. Dorsten: A lack of materiality 4. The material help of American friends in the French transit and internment camp of Royallieu, Compiègne 5. A materiality of placemaking and campscapes 6. A materiality of resistance? 7. An intimate materiality 8. A materiality of community 9. A materiality of aftermath: from liberation to compensation, 1945-1995 10. Reconciliation, a materiality of post-internment and conclusion