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- Title
BUCHENWALD AND MODERN PRISONER-OF-WAR DETENTION POLICY.
- Authors
Foreman, Paul B.
- Abstract
American sociologists have moved through the last quarter of a century largely as if Nazi concentration camps were never there. Aside from a few early papers about the camps, the major articles to appear in the journals have, in the main, been research promotion surveys. Little can be gained from epitomizing about these facts. Much more can be obtained from demonstrating that concentration camp materials can be used to open critical questions about contemporary issues. For example, prisoner-of-war detention policy. As this interest is approached in this paper, some guiding observations can be put down. Patent reporting errs and vulnerable theorising in early American discussion about the camps are conforming and tend to seal off major sociological interests. American policy for counteraction of terror and oppression among captive peoples, particularly prisoners-of-war, tends to follow the implications of these early papers. Failure to re-examine these early accounts and to test the implications of evident decisions in prisoner-of-war policy in light of concentration camp experiences may mean that American sociologists have let an opportunity for most significant and practical contributions to public policy pas by.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SOCIOLOGY; NAZIS; PRISONERS of war; CONCENTRATION camps; POLICY sciences
- Publication
Social Forces, 1959, Vol 37, Issue 4, p289
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2574175