The German victory in the West in 1940 brought 1.5 million French prisoners of war (POWs) to Germany. Given that Germany and France had signed only an armistice, not a peace treaty, Germany did not release its prisoners but deployed them as laborers throughout the entire territory of the Reich. The fact that Vichy France was a friendly neutral and that the French army, with the exception of the small Free French forces, was no longer fighting Germany made it possible to disperse French prisoners among the German working population with less supervision than, for example, British prisoners. Worried about the proximity of so many foreign men to German women, however, the Nazi regime severely penalized amorous contacts between POWs and German women, especially as the growing manpower demands of the German army depleted factories and villages of German men. Yet, the punishments did little to deter relationships between German women and French POWs. The number of love-

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心的合作：纳粹德国法国战俘与德国妇女的禁忌之恋

1940 年德国在西方的胜利为德国带来了 150 万法国战俘 (POW)。考虑到德国和法国只签署了停战协议，而不是和平条约，德国并没有释放囚犯，而是将他们作为劳工部署在整个帝国领土上。事实上，维希法国是一个友好的中立国，除小型自由法国军队外，法国军队不再与德国作战，这使得将法国囚犯分散到德国工作人口中成为可能，而监督程度低于，例如，英国囚犯。担心有这么多外国男人接近德国女人，纳粹政权严厉惩罚战俘和德国女人之间的恋情接触，尤其是随着德国军队不断增长的人力需求耗尽了德国男人的工厂和村庄。然而，这些惩罚并没有阻止德国妇女和法国战俘之间的关系。爱的数量——