The Economic Organization of a P.O.W. Camp

Authore(s) : R.A. Radford || From Economica November1945.

Volume : (13), Issue : 205, January - 2019

Abstract : After allowance has been made for abnormal circumstances, the social institutions, ideas and habits of groups in the outside world are to be found reflected in a Prisoner of War Camp. It is an unusual but a vital society. Camp Organization and politics are matters of real concern to the inmates, as affecting their present and perhaps their future existences. Nor does this indicate any loss of proportion. No one pretends that camp matters are of any but local importance or of more than transient interest,  but their importance  there is great.  They  bulk large in a world  of narrow horizons   and   it  is  suggested   that   any   distortion   of  values   lies   rather   in  the minimization   than  in  the  exaggeration   of  their  importance.   Human  affairs  are essentially practical matters and the measure of immediate effect on the lives of those directly concerned in them is to a large extent the criterion of their importance at that time and place. A prisoner can hold strong views on such subjects as whether or not all tinned meats shall be issued to individuals cold or be centrally cooked, without losing sight of the significance of the Atlantic Charter.

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