The British Empire and Italian Prisoners of War

Moore, Bob; Fedorowich, Kent; Philpott, William J.

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“…In Land Girls , the Italians are supervised while working, but the characters are quite casual in their work and interactions with the Land Girls. Italy poses no threat to Britain and its contribution to the war is viewed in terms of relative economic support – after 1943, many Italian soldiers stayed on the land as worker co-operators – but not military assistance (Moore and Fodorowich, 2002: 131–137). This allows the ‘Britain alone’ myth of the war to remain in place, while recognising the role of subgroups that were peripheral to, but not entirely absent from, the British national experience.…”

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Britishness and otherness: Representing and constructing identity in BBC’s Land Girls

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2019

Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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This article situates Land Girls (BBC, 2009-2011) in dialogue with the Second World War and its legacy. Although the series ostensibly deals with the experience of British Land Girls during the war in a melodramatic way, Land Girls is best understood as an anxious commentary on the place of Britain and its cultural institutions following the war. The series uses national, racial and economic others in order to de-romanticise notions of a collective national identity, while simultaneously using those others to help articulate an idealised sense of Britishness for a 21st-century audience.

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Britishness and otherness: Representing and constructing identity in BBC’s Land Girls

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Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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“…İki güç arasında başlangıçta az sayıda askeri çarpışma yaşandığı için her iki tarafta az sayıda esir elde etti. Ancak ilerleyen zamanlarda İngiltere'nin Libya'dan Mısır'a doğru genişlettiği askeri çarpışmalarda İngiliz kuvvetleri binlerce İtalyan esir ele geçirdiler 10 .…”

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İkinci Dünya Savaşı Sırasında Türkiye’de Gerçekleştirilen Esir Değişimlerinin Dönemin Basınında Sunumu

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2018

Journal of History and Future

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Öz Bu çalışma, İkinci Dünya Savaşı'nın grupları Müttefik ve Mihver arasında başlatılan esir değişimi müzakereleri kapsamında özellikle Doğu Afrika'da yaralanan ve esir düşenlerle, fiziksel veya akıl sağlığını yitirenlerin, kendi ülkelerine dönmeleri maksadıyla gerçekleştirilen esir değişimlerine odaklanmaktadır. Bu odaklanma neticesinde çalışma, mezkûr dönemde Türkiye'nin Cenevre Sözleşmesi uyarınca, savaşın tarafsız devleti sıfatı ile kendi sularında gerçekleşmesine müsaade ettiği 1942 ve 1943 yıllarının muhtelif tarihlerinde yapılan 5 adet esir değişim programlamalarının kamuoyuna sunumunun tespitini amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda, belge tarama metoduyla, dönemin basınında esir değişimine ilişkin çıkan haberlerde yer alan demeçler, değerlendirmeler, yorumlar ve devlet arşivlerinden ulaşılan belgeler üzerinden elde edilen bilgilerle, sürecin işleyişi aktarılmaktadır. Sonuçta anlaşılmaktadır ki, İngiliz ve İtalyan esirlerinin kendi ülkelerine dönmelerinde inisiyatif alan Türkiye, Kızılay Cemiyeti'nin İzmir ve Mersin Limanlarında esirlere sergilediği insani yardım faaliyetleri vasıtasıyla, hem kendisine yönelik bir takdirin kazanılmasını sağlanmış hem de meselenin uluslararası boyuta taşınmasında katkı sunmuştur. Çalışma esir değişimini dönemin basını üzerinden anlatmasıyla alan yazında benzerlerinden ayrılan bir özgünlüğü barındırmaktadır.

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“…The scheme was instituted from 1 May 1944 and 60-70 per cent of the Italians then in the country ultimately volunteered for this new status. 26 The increased freedoms built into the co-operator agreements meant that contact with civilians was far more likely. Those involved could now travel within a five mile radius of their billet, have some of their earnings converted into sterling and have access to local shops and cinemas.…”

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“…They were also permitted to converse with the public and accept invitations to private houses. 27 From the summer of 1943, Home Intelligence Reports had noted increased complaints about the freedoms afforded Italian prisoners in terms of their access to transport and to housing when compared with ordinary British workers. In order to identify their co-operators' status, the men were given chocolate-coloured battle dresses with 'Italy' shoulder flashes.…”

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Illicit Encounters: Female Civilian Fraternization with Axis Prisoners of War in Second World War Britain

Moore

2013

Journal of Contemporary History

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The arrival of enemy prisoners of war in Britain from 1941 onwards and their use as a labour force in the hard-pressed British war economy meant that they came into increasing contact with civilians as the scope of their employment widened. Their deployment into labour battalions and billeting on farms meant that they had day-to-day contact with many women as well as men. This article charts the attempts by government agencies to limit civilian fraternization with both Italian and later German prisoners of war both during and after the war through the enforcement of defence regulations and other relevant legislation – showing how difficult this proved to be as circumstances changed and demonstrating that public perceptions of the prisoners changed after 1945 and how this was belatedly followed by relaxation of the relevant legislation. It also places government and public attitudes to fraternization within the contemporary debates on declining female morals and draws some comparisons with scholarship on women’s relations with foreign allied soldiers in the same period.

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Britishness and otherness: Representing and constructing identity in BBC’s Land Girls

Britishness and otherness: Representing and constructing identity in BBC’s Land Girls

İkinci Dünya Savaşı Sırasında Türkiye’de Gerçekleştirilen Esir Değişimlerinin Dönemin Basınında Sunumu

Illicit Encounters: Female Civilian Fraternization with Axis Prisoners of War in Second World War Britain

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