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

本研究旨在追溯第二次世界大战期间被拘禁在法国大陆的英国国民的生活经历。1940年6月法国沦陷后，法国与德国签署停战协定，将法国一分为二：包括巴黎在内的北部被德国军队占领，南部则由独立的法国维希政府管理。1940年9月9日，占领区的德国当局将英国公民视为敌方平民，导致1940年9月至12月期间对英国和英联邦公民的逮捕浪潮。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。整个法国从1942年11月开始被占领。该项目将追踪英国被拘留者在战争之前、期间和之后在这两个地区的经历。它试图了解是什么把他们带到法国，他们的生活是什么样的战争和他们的拘留之前（1935年至1940年）。它将探索他们在1940年至1945年期间在拘留营中的生活，重点是抵抗，合作和之间的空间，质疑英国人如何应对法国的占领和维希政权的建立，并检查他们的合作和抵抗的程度。最后，它将确定战争如何塑造他们的经验后，拘留和他们如何回忆和传递他们的战时记忆。该项目将采用混合研究方法，将档案资料分析与印刷资料和口头访谈相结合。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，这是现有文献中尚未探讨的话题

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