Moore, B. (2026) Enemies in their midst: British imperial policy on POWs and internees and its impact on South Africa during the Second World War. Immigrants & Minorities. ISSN: 0261-9288
Abstract
The societal fractures within the Union of South Africa created a series of unique problems when war broke out in 1939. With a disaffected Afrikaner population and governance over the former German colony of South West Africa, questions of security dominated the thinking of the government under Jan Smuts. This article surveys the British Imperial and Dominion policies on internment during the Great War to show how these influenced the Union’s Second World War regime – by balancing security concerns with the need to maintain social peace.
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2026 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Internment; World War II; South Africa; Prisoners of War; security |
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| Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
| Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of History (Sheffield) |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2026 08:24 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Sep 2026 08:24 |
| Status: | Published online |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Identification Number: | 10.1080/02619288.2026.2718191 |
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| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:244944 |

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