Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jkksz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T06:16:13.791Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

La recherche des Allemands prisonniers ou portés disparus au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale–Une page de l'histoire du Service de recherches de la Croix-Rouge allemande

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2010

Monika Ampferl
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The Second World War was responsible for the death and disappearance of millions of Germans. Soon after the outbreak of hostilities the German Red Cross set up a tracing service in accordance with the 1929 Geneva Convention on prisoners of war. During the war, the tracing activity of the German Red Cross was expanded to include the search for civilian victims of the conflict. This article examines the activities of the tracing service both during the war and after it was over: restoring links between members of families, searching for lost children, establishing contact with prisoners, determining the whereabouts of displaced persons, etc. With the end of the Cold War, German reunification and a new relationship with Russia made it possible for the German Red Cross Society to intensify its search for missing persons.

Type
Croix-Rouge et Croissant-Rouge/Red Cross and Red Crescent
Information
International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 81 , Issue 834: 100 ans: Droit de La Haye (1899) 50 ans: Conventions de Genève de 1949/100 years: Law of The Hague (1899) 50 years: Geneva Conventions of 1949 , June 1999 , pp. 387 - 402
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1999

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bibliographie

Böhme, Kurt W., Gesucht wird…, Die dramatische Geschichte des Suchdienstes, Munich, 1965 et 1970.Google Scholar
Gruber, Walter, Das Rote Kreuz in Deutschhnd: zum 125. Jahrestag von Solferino, Wiesbaden, 1985.Google Scholar
Croix-Rouge allemande, 50 Jahre Suchdienst in Deutschland, Munich, 1995.Google Scholar
Köster-Hetzendorf, Maren, Ich hob dich so gesucht…, Der Krieg und seine verlorenen Kinder, Augsbourg, 1996.Google Scholar