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.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Christian G. De Vito, Ralf Futselaar, Helen Grevers

Chapter 1. "Gloomy Dungeons": Provisional prisons in Madrid in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War (1939-1945)
Alicia Quintero Maqua

Chapter 2. Paradoxical outcomes?: Incarceration, war and regime changes in Italy, 1943-1954
Christian G. De Vito

Chapter 3. Life in the Frontstalags: Colonial Prisoners of War in Occupied France, 1940-1942
Sarah Frank

Chapter 4. Containing "potentially subversive" subjects: The internment of members of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands Indies, 1940-1946
Esther Zwinkels

Chapter 5. The detention of social outsiders between social reform, annihilation and custody: The municipal workhouse and prison of Berlin-Rummelsburg from Weimar Republic to GDR
Thomas Irmer

Chapter 6. A triumph for the protectional model? How Belgian institutions for delinquent children dealt with young collaborators (1944-1950)
Aurore François

Chapter 7. The ambiguities of Gendarmeries' relationship to internment around World War II (Belgium, France, The Netherlands)
Jonas Campion

Afterword: An essay on space and time
Jane Caplan

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