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100 1 0 _aBrowning, Deborah L.
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245 0 0 _aThe Scandal and Betrayal at Stade Colombes
260 _c2022.
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520 _aThis article examines the French government’s mass internment at the start of the Second World War of all adult male nationals of Greater Germany, which included Austrians, Saarlanders, and Czechs, who were now designated as enemy aliens. It focuses on the largest of the assembly centers, Stade Colombes, twelve kilometers northwest of Paris, where the roughly twenty thousand of those who lived in the Paris region were ordered to report. This article makes use of military documents, newspaper reports, diaries, and memoirs to highlight the experience of the men from the first news of the war, through the conditions they encountered in Stade Colombes to their subsequent transfers to other camps. Following the trajectory of the German-born Catholic painter Hans Reichel (1892– 1958) from his reaction to the news of the war to his release five months later will enable the reader to grasp more vividly what the men endured.
690 _aHans Reichel
690 _aconcentration camp
690 _adrȏle de guerre
690 _aStade Colombes
690 _aenemy alien
690 _aMeslay-du-Maine
690 _aFrance
690 _ainternment
786 0 _nFrench Politics, Culture & Society | 40 | 3 | 2022-12-12 | p. 1-27 | 1537-6370
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-french-politics-culture-and-society-2022-3-page-1?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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