PRISONIERS OF WAR IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR THE CASE OF ROMANIAN POWS IN BULGARIA
PRISONIERS OF WAR IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR THE CASE OF ROMANIAN POWS IN BULGARIA

Summary/Abstract: Although military (and civilian) internment has become associated with World War II in the collective memory, it has amuch longer and painful history. The turning point of this history took place during the First World War when, in the nameof “security” in a total war, the internment of “foreign enemy” became part of state policy for the belligerent states, leadingto imprisonment, moving and, in extreme cases, death by neglect or deliberate killing of hundreds of thousands of peoplearound the world. Among these heroes, often “unknown”, there were many Romanian soldiers who were taken prisoners andinterned in various camps of the Central Powers; this article is dedicated to them.

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