Christian G. De Vito is Research Associate at the University of Leicester. He has published extensively on the social history of prisons, convict labour, and prisoners' movements.Ralf Futselaar is a social historian of violence. He has published on the history of malnutrition, war-related mortality, war traumas, black markets, colonial soldiers, violent women, forced labor and imprisonment. He is currently a researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and a lecturer at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.Helen Grevers is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of History at Ghent University. She has published on collaborators in the Netherlands and Belgium and now works on the research project "Collaborators, Justice and Society: A Social History of the Punishment of Collaboration in Belgium after WWII."

"This volume brings together pioneering work that provides a welcome perspective not only on the treatment of prisoners, but also on how they were understood during the Second World War--a crucial issue in light of the fact that these were people interned not so much for what they did, but who they were." Raffael Scheck, Colby College

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChristian G. De Vito, Ralf Futselaar, Helen GreversChapter 1. "Gloomy Dungeons": Provisional prisons in Madrid in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War (1939-1945)Alicia Quintero MaquaChapter 2. Paradoxical outcomes?: Incarceration, war and regime changes in Italy, 1943-1954Christian G. De VitoChapter 3. Life in the Frontstalags: Colonial Prisoners of War in Occupied France, 1940-1942Sarah FrankChapter 4. Containing "potentially subversive" subjects: The internment of members of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands Indies, 1940-1946Esther ZwinkelsChapter 5. The detention of social outsiders between social reform, annihilation and custody: The municipal workhouse and prison of Berlin-Rummelsburg from Weimar Republic to GDRThomas IrmerChapter 6. A triumph for the protectional model? How Belgian institutions for delinquent children dealt with young collaborators (1944-1950)Aurore FrancoisChapter 7. The ambiguities of Gendarmeries' relationship to internment around World War II (Belgium, France, The Netherlands)Jonas CampionAfterword: An essay on space and timeJane CaplanBibliographyIndex