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Verlag: War Prisoner's Pocket Library. War Prisoner's Aid. World's Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations. Geneva (Switzerland)., 1937
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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No publication date - likely late 1930's or very early 1940's. Softcover. Blue paper cover. Rear cover and final page of index are missing. Stapled binding. All pages present. There is a signature on the front cover (can't make it out) and a rubberstamp on the title page (also can't make it out). 126 pages. This is a language guide for English prisoners-of-war, with instructions how to say, in German, things like "I play the accordeon," and "Please give me a glass of wine," and "What is our exact address?" There is also a traditional, language-dictionary style word-for-word section. But it is the phrases that were chosen to put in here that I find fascinating. It shows how drastically mistaken the English military (or at least the YMCA) was about what was going on in the War, about the treatment of prisoners and the conditions of the various prisons and camps. These phrases come straight out of the pre-WWI sort of gentleman's imprisonment that characterized many of the 19th century European wars. It is horrible and laughable to think that someone arriving in a German POW camp might be worried about receiving mail and forming an accordion trio. I can find only one other copy of this book on the internet -- that one has an ownership name showing that it was at Liebenau Internment Camp, which shows that these were, in fact, in circulation among soldiers. Unfortunately, I can't read the name signed on the front cover. The initials seem to be B.B.
Verlag: The War Prisoner's Pocket Library. World's Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations
Anbieter: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. The War Prisoner's Pocket Library No. 11. "War Prisoner's Aid" World's Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations. Geneva. Switzerland. Softcover, 128 pages. Bound with blue paper covers, titles printed in darker blue. Pages toned from age. Despite woodpulp paper, though, it's complete and in good condition. Handwritten at the top of the front cover: "Liebenau Interment Camp." The Liebenau Interment Camp, sometimes called Ravensburg, is mentioned in the Wikipedia database: "A camp in Liebenau, close to Meckenbeuren in Württemberg, on Lake Constance was opened in 1940 and operated until 1945. It was situated in a castle and four adjacent buildings. Originally it had been a mental hospital run by nuns. By orders of Hitler, about 700 of the patients were exterminated with injections, to provide room for internees. The first internees were about 300 British citizens from Poland. More British were brought in 1941 from Belgium, Greece, Netherlands and other countries. The food rations were augmented with Red Cross packages. The guards were old German soldiers veterans of World War I and treated the internees well, as several of them had been prisoners of war in British camps and had been treated well. In January 1943 many of the married women were transferred to Vittel." An extremely scarce book while not a Concentration Camp in the worst and most deadly sense of the term, the camp at Liebenau saw its share of death & was a part of Hitler's terribly organized network of separations and detainments. -- This book has no publication date. The camp operated from 1940-1945, so it must have been published before or during that window of time. All the instructions, etc, are in English. It is not entirely clear for whom this book was intended, although I can only assume it was for those 300 British citizens living in Poland whom the Nazi army captured. Its tone is cheerful and optimistic, as though saying "What work do I have to do?" or "Must I undress?" or, from page 25, "Orders in German which it is useful to know: Halt!.Come here!.Proceed no further! Dismissed! Go! Sit down! Silence!." In the introduction, "to English-Speaking prisoners of war" the book offers this insight: "Apart from its immediate purpose [to teach minimal German, this book] may perhaps kindle a desire to study another language, and encourage a prisoner to turn his leisure hours to good account." I cannot follow the book from Liebenau to Virginia though its journey must have been an interesting. It comes to me from the collection of Guillermo Espinosa (1905-1990). According to the newsletter of the Latin American Music Center, Espinosa was for a time the world''s great spokesman and promoter of South and Central American composers. He was the director of the Columbian Symphony Orchestra, author of a book on the history of that group, professor of music, and member of the Pan American Union.