Böcker av Andrew Theobald

A prime minister determined to keep the troops in action. Waning support for the war effort. A country divided. These aren't today's headlines. Picture this: Canadian troops die by the thousands in the muddy fields of Europe. Russia is descending into civil war, and will soon be lost to the Allies. The French army has mutinied. The United States has declared war on Germany, but their army needs time to prepare. German U-boats are turning the seas into floating graveyards. Back in Canada, fewer and fewer men are volunteering to join the fray. Prime Minister Borden's government proposed conscription to replace the dead and wounded. Farmers, fishermen, francophones, and the Liberal Party opposed the Military Service Act. Canada was in upheaval. Many reduced the issue to tension between pro-British Ontario and anti-war Quebec, but there was more. In New Brunswick, ruptures emerged between rural and urban, liberal and conservative, north and south, Protestant and Catholic, and French and English. The legacy of bitterness and ethnic tensions echo to this day.

Hidden away in the woods of central New Brunswick lie the remains of Camp B, one of several internment camps that were administered by the Canadian government during the Second World War. A dark chapter in Canada's history, sites like Camp B housed hundreds of individuals deemed to be "dangerous enemy sympathizers," many imprisoned with little or no justification.In the first year of its operation, Camp B incarcerated German and Austrian Jewish refugees dispatched from Britain. Fearful that the refugees were agents of the Nazis they'd fled, the British government sent thousands of men to Canada to be interned. After most of the refugees were released in 1941, Camp B held Canadians who were suspected of opposing the war effort -- including homegrown fascists and men of German and Italian descent -- as well as captured enemy merchant mariners.In this illuminating account, Andrew Theobald examines the conditions of the camp and the lives of those imprisoned. He also scrutinizes the troubling circumstances that led to the internment of both refugees and Canadian nationals, the debates over the ethics of internment inside and outside the camp, and the role of the camps in shaping government policy towards immigration and the post-war powers of the Canadian state."Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers" is volume 26 in the New Brunswick Military Heritage Series.