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050 00 $aD805.A2$bC4913 1994
082 00 $a940.54/77/092$aB$220
100 1 $aChristiansen, Chris,$d1914-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96004505
240 10 $aSyv år blandt krigsfanger.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93121683
245 10 $aSeven years among prisoners of war /$cChris Christiansen ; translated by Ida Egede Winther.
260 $aAthens :$bOhio University Press,$c1994.
300 $axi, 221 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aHundreds of thousands of prisoners were incarcerated in camps around the world during World War II. And individuals from all walks of life joined international organizations like the Red Cross, churches, and other relief groups to help counter the hopelessness of camp life.
520 8 $aOne of these was Chris Christiansen, who had just graduated from Theological School at Copenhagen University when he took a position with the World's Alliance of the YMCAs to work with British, American, and other Allied prisoners of war in Germany. The next seven years were, for him, "an amazing experience." The prisoners faced cold, starvation, loneliness, deprivation, and cruel and arbitrary treatment. Those who served among them - unrecognized in the headlines or history text - worked tirelessly and patiently to relieve the conditions of the prisoners as much as possible. Christiansen, who was also arrested in Berlin and imprisoned in Moscow experienced this grim aspect of warfare from both sides.
520 8 $aHis story pays tribute to the prisoners, to the relief workers, to the churches and other service organizations, and to "that part of the human spirit" which sustained them through this dark period in our collective past.
600 10 $aChristiansen, Chris,$d1914-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96004505
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148472
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, Danish.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113949
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xChaplains$zDenmark$vBiography.
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zSoviet Union$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109312
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zDenmark$vBiography.
610 20 $aKFUM (Denmark)$vBiography.
852 00 $boff,glx$hD805.A2$iC4913 1994