Resistance, Collaboration, and the Spaces in Between: the Internment of British Citizens in France, 1935-1955

这项研究旨在追溯二战期间被拘留在法国大陆的英国国民的生活经历。1940年6月法国陷落后，与德国签署了停战协议，将法国一分为二：北部，包括巴黎，由德国军队占领，南部由独立的法国政府在维希镇管理。从1940年9月9日起，德国当局在占领区将英国公民当作敌人平民，导致从1940年9月到12月，英国和英联邦公民被逮捕的浪潮。在法国的非占领区，英国人只会因为犯罪或被怀疑是共产主义者而被拘留。从1942年11月起，整个法国被占领。这个项目将追踪战前、战中和战后英国囚犯的经历。它试图了解是什么让他们来到法国，以及他们在战争和被拘留(1935-1940)之前的生活是什么样子。它将探索他们在1940-1945年间在拘留营中的生活，重点关注抵抗、合作和两者之间的空间，质疑英国人如何回应法国的占领和维希政权的建立，并考察他们合作和抵抗的程度。最后，它将确定战争如何塑造了他们被拘留后的经历，以及他们如何回忆和传递战时记忆。该项目将使用混合研究方法，将档案来源分析与印刷来源和口头采访相结合。它将揭示第二次世界大战期间生活在法国的英国社区的历史，这是现有文献中从未探讨过的主题

This research aims to trace the life experiences of British nationals interned in continental France during the Second World War. Following the fall of France in June 1940, an armistice was signed with Germany which divided France in two: the north, including Paris, being occupied by German troops and the south being run by an independent French government at the town of Vichy. The German authorities in the occupied zone rendered British citizens as enemy civilians from 9 September 1940, leading to a wave of arrests of British and Commonwealth citizens from September to December 1940. In the non-occupied zone of France, British people would have only been interned as a result of committing a crime or being suspected communists. The entirety of France was then occupied from November 1942. This project will trace the experiences of British internees before, during and after the war in both zones. It seeks to understand what brought them to France and what their lives were like prior to the war and their internment (1935-1940). It will explore their life in the internment camps between 1940-1945, focusing on resistance, collaboration and the spaces in between, questioning how British people responded to the occupation of France and the creation of the Vichy regime and examining the extent of their collaboration and resistance. Finally, it will identify how the war shaped their experiences after internment and how they recalled and transmitted their wartime memories. The project will use mixed research methods, combining archival source analysis with printed sources and oral interviews. It will reveal the history of British communities living in France during the Second World War, a topic that has not been explored in the existing literature