A Catalyst for the Development of Human Rights: German Internment Practices in the First World War,1914-1929

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dc.contributor.authorVick, Alison Marieen
dc.contributor.committeechairGumbert, Heather L.en
dc.contributor.committeechairStephens, Robert P.en
dc.contributor.committeememberCline, David P.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBugh, Glenn R.en
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-18T08:00:34Zen
dc.date.available2013-06-18T08:00:34Zen
dc.date.issued2013-06-17en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is a transnational study of the military actions and responses related to prisoners of war in World War I. Building on the works human rights scholars, I explore the how the collective rights afforded to prisoners of war under the 1906 Geneva Convention and 1907 Hague Convention served as a precursor to the concept of human rights that emerged after World War II. I argue that German military treated prisoners of war according to national interest, rather than international law. Specifically, I explore how the concepts of "military necessity" and "reciprocity" drove German internment practices, and how German internment practices escalated in violence during the last two years of the war. The violent practices committed by the Germans against prisoners of war produced an international demand to hold the perpetrators of wartime atrocities accountable for their actions in the postwar period.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:1163en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/23242en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectGermanyen
dc.subjectprisoners of waren
dc.subjectFirst World Waren
dc.subjecthuman rightsen
dc.subjectinternational lawen
dc.titleA Catalyst for the Development of Human Rights: German Internment Practices in the First World War,1914-1929en
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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