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The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior : A History of Canadian Internment Camp R by Ernest Robert Zimmermann, Michael S. Beaulieu, David K. Ratz, Michel S. Beaulieu is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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An in-depth history of one of Canada's World War II internment camps that held both Nazis and anti-Nazis alike. For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1,145 prisoners of war in Red Rock, Ontario (about 100 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay). Camp R interned friend and foe alike: Nazis, anti-Nazis, Jews, soldiers, merchant seamen, and refugees whom Britain feared might comprise Hitler's rumoured "fifth column" of alien enemies residing within the Commonwealth. For the first time and in riveting detail, the author illuminates the conditions in one of Canada's forgotten POW camps. Backed by interviews and meticulous archival research, Zimmermann fleshes out this rich history in an accessible, lively manner. The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior will captivate military and political historians as well as non-specialists interested in the history of POWs and internment in Canada. "Most of us have an image of what prisoner of war camps looked like, either from documentary footage about Nazi POW camps, or feature films about World War II, or television situation comedies. The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior shatters all of those stereot

Who reads The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior : A History of Canadian Internment Camp R?

Author

Ernest Robert Zimmermann, Michael S. Beaulieu, David K. Ratz, Michel S. Beaulieu

Publisher

The University of Alberta Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780888646736

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Political Science, History