Tolerance As a Crime? The British Treatment of German Prisoners of War on the Western Front, 1914–1918

This article examines the British treatment of German prisoners of war on the Western Front during the First World War. Although historians have largely overlooked crimes against prisoners of war, it argues that British soldiers, like other combatants, sometimes pillaged, physically abused, or even...

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