The Economic Organization of a POW Camp (1945) [pdf]

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Slightly off-topic, but Primo Levi's "If this is a man" is an excellent description of life in a camp. In his case, it was Auschwitz.

I'll second that recommendation, in addition to a description of life in a camp, it's diving into how one finds meaning in life after catastrophic and seemingly inescapable loss and tragedy, certainly helped to put my issues into perspective.

Facinating. Reminds me of Andersonville and King Rat

Also, I wish there wasn't so much material gated behind copyright and only available if you have access to a JSTOR subscription. To download the whole article (13 pages) if this wasn't being hosted on somebody's wordpress site, it would cost $43! http://www.jstor.org/stable/2550133?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont...

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