Prisoner Of The Swiss
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Prisoner Of The Swiss
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Author : Daniel Culler
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2017-08-19
Prisoner Of The Swiss written by Daniel Culler and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A harrowing memoir revealing the horrors that occurred within a little-known prison camp in Switzerland, by a POW who survived it. During WWII, 1,517 members of US aircrews were forced to seek asylum in Switzerland. Most neutral countries found reason to release US airmen from internment, but Switzerland took its obligations under the Hague Convention more seriously than most. The airmen were often incarcerated in local jails, then transferred to prison camps. The worst of these camps was Wauwilermoos, where at least 161 US airmen were sent for the honorable offense of escaping. To this hellhole came Dan Culler, the author of this incredible account of suffering and survival. Prisoners slept on lice-infested straw, were malnourished, and had virtually no hygiene facilities or access to medical care. But worse, the commandant of Wauwilermoos was a diehard Swiss Nazi. He allowed the mainly criminal occupants of the camp to torture and rape Dan Culler with impunity. After many months of such treatment, starving and ravaged by disease, he was finally aided by a British officer. Betrayal dominated his cruel fate—by the American authorities, by the Swiss, and, in a last twist, in a second planned escape that turned out to be a trap. But Dan Culler’s courage and determination kept him alive. Finally making it back home, he found he had been abandoned again. Political expediency meant there was no such place as Wauwilermoos. He had never been there, so he had never been a POW and didn‘t qualify for any POW benefits or medical or mental treatment for his many physical and emotional wounds. His struggle to make his peace with his past forms the final part of the story. An introduction and notes from military historian Rob Morris provide historical background and context, including recent efforts to recognize the suffering of those incarcerated in Switzerland and afford them full POW status.
Prisoner Of The Swiss
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Author : Rob Morris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Prisoner Of The Swiss written by Rob Morris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with History categories.
Dan Culler's The Black Hole of Wauwilermoos first came out in 1995. It was self-published, written in a burst of creative energy over a three-month period during which Dan sometimes worked day and night. A small print run of 1,000 books resulted, and were quickly sold out. Despite its small scale and lack of promotion, Black Hole of Wauwilermoos has become a book that is widely admired and often quoted by World War Two scholars and historians, most recently in Donald Miller's best-selling Masters of the Air. I have attempted to stay true to the book's original premise and style. All I've done is tighten it up (it's about half as long as the original). If, upon finishing, one is left wanting more, I recommend the original version of Black Hole, and Dan's memoir of his childhood and young adulthood, The Circle of Thorns: Birth and Learning Years. Dan is a prolific and thoughtful writer of short stories, poems, and books, most of which he shares only with a few friends. Reading Dan's collected works has allowed me to get to know a man who is at the core intensely guarded and private, a man who has been deeply impacted by his wartime experiences who carries with him a multitude of physical and emotional scars that will never heal. Despite his having lived through the banality and evil of war and imprisonment, despite being betrayed by his own government, he continues to courageously reach out to others. Given every reason to reject a loving God and a rational universe, he continues to be a spiritual man. We both hope you learn from the book and that it opens your eyes to a little-known story of World War Two.
Shot From The Sky
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Author : Cathryn J. Prince
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 2003
Shot From The Sky written by Cathryn J. Prince and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Prince presents the complete story behind Swiss claims of neutrality, where they applied international law in an unfair manner. They detained and in some cases punished American airmen while allowing Nazi pilots to refuel at Swiss airfields.
Internment In Switzerland During The First World War
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Author : Susan Barton
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2021-02-25
Internment In Switzerland During The First World War written by Susan Barton and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-25 with History categories.
In contrast to the plethora of works focusing on the tragic loss of human lives during the First World War, little is known about the more hopeful realities of thousands of prisoners of war from Britain, France, Germany and Belgium who were sent to Switzerland from 1916. This book explores the everyday lives of these prisoners and their impact on Switzerland. Internees were warmly welcomed by local people and given education, training and employment. Leading relatively free lives, they were able to engage in leisure activities and develop new relationships. However, they also contributed to the country's economy, helping to keep Swiss tourism alive at a time when businesses were struggling and alleviating Switzerland's labour shortage as Swiss men were called-up to defend their borders and preserve the country's neutrality. Drawing on a wide range of sources from official records to magazines and postcards, Susan Barton provides an absorbing account of the social and cultural history of internment in Switzerland.
Swiss Internment Of Prisoners Of War
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Author : Edouard Favre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917
Swiss Internment Of Prisoners Of War written by Edouard Favre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
Swiss Internment Of Prisoners Of War
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Author : Édouard Favre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
Swiss Internment Of Prisoners Of War written by Édouard Favre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
Introduction Also Authored By Samuel McCune Lindsay.
Captured
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Author : John Harvey Douglas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1918
Captured written by John Harvey Douglas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1918 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
The Reception Of Wounded Prisoner Soldiers Of Great Britain In Switzerland
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Author : Great Britain. Legation. Switzerland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
The Reception Of Wounded Prisoner Soldiers Of Great Britain In Switzerland written by Great Britain. Legation. Switzerland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with Prisoners of war categories.
And Direction Was Given
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Author : Alan John Flederman
language : en
Publisher: Athena PressPub Company
Release Date : 2008
And Direction Was Given written by Alan John Flederman and has been published by Athena PressPub Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the dying days of World War II, Alan Flederman was a POW in Italy. As the Allies advanced, there was an ever-present threat that he and his fellow prisoners would be despatched deep into the land of their fears - Germany. Not one to sit around waiting for such a potential fate, Flederman, along with a small band of other prisoners, planned an escape, which, though successful, did not end beyond the perimeter fence of the camp. This book tells the story of the journey from the prison camp to true freedom, through war-torn Italy, where danger lurked in even the most rural hamlets, to the heavily patrolled Swiss border. Flederman reflects on how, without the help, kindness and shelter of the families and individual men and women of the tiny villages that he traced his journey through, he might never have made it. The enormous personal risk these people put themselves in by sheltering him is a debt he passionately acknowledges.
Doing Indefinite Time
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Author : Irene Marti
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-10-07
Doing Indefinite Time written by Irene Marti and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-07 with Social Science categories.
This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as ‘dangerous’ and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores prisoners’ manifold ways of inhabiting the prison which can be used to challenge well established notions about the experience of imprisonment, such as ‘adaptation’, ‘coping’, and ‘resistance’. Drawing on ethnographic data generated in two high-security prisons housing male offenders, this book explores how the various spaces of the prison affect prisoners’ sense of self and experience of time, and how, in particular, the indeterminate nature of their imprisonment affects their perceptions of place and space. It sheds light on prisoners’ subjective, emplaced and embodied perceptions of the prisons' various everyday time-spaces in the cell, at work, and during leisure time, and the forms of agency they express. It provides insight into prisoners’ everyday habits, practices, routines, and rhythms as well as the profoundly existential issues that are engendered, (re)arranged, and anchored in these everyday contexts. It also offers insights into the penal policies, norms, and practices developed and followed by prison authorities and staff.