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Taking a psychoanalytic perspective, this paper investigates the mysterious bond between leaders andfollowers. Using such concepts as charisma, projection, transference, defense mechanisms, and the psychology of groups, regressive processes between leaders and followers are explored. In the context of leadership, attention is also given to the psychological consequences of the faulty management of anxiety and aggression.

Historians have paid little attention to the over half a million German prisoners-of-war who were deployed for the purposes of reconstruction in France between 1944 and 1948. In an effort to contain the rural labour crisis over half were allocated to agriculture. Despite an initially hostile reception by the French, this article argues that moving the prisoners into farms marked the beginning of a strikingly rapid process of acceptance by these local communities. Farmers led the way to broader acceptance by refusing to enforce the rules and granting prisoners more freedom than the authorities intended. It shows how, despite opposition from some quarters, in a process of growing normalization, rural populations gradually came to identify the Germans less as prisoners and more as foreign workers living amongst them.

Al-Ansar is a large prison camp built by the Israelis in southern Lebanon (near Nabatiyeh) to house the thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese the Israeli ar my rounded up during its occupation of the South. In mid-September, after the Israelis invaded Beirut, in breach of their international commitment not to do so, thousands more were seized by the Israeli Defence Forces. In these mass ar rests, the Israelis targeted all Palestinian men between the ages of 14 and 60, but they also arrested many Lebanese and anyone else suspected of a connection to a Palestinian political or service organisation, including foreigners working in hospitals, schools and other social service institutions. The exact number of those arrested is not known, but according to Red Cross officials, 15,000 is a 'very realistic' figure.1 A I-A nsar is but one Israeli prison camp. There are others in undisclosed loca tions in northern Israel. The following report by an Israeli soldier stationed at the Ansar camp gives a vivid description of the inhumane conditions existing at the camp. There are other frequent reports, appearing even in the Israeli press, that prisoners are routinely beaten, denied basic needs and kept in degrading and overcrowded conditions. 2 Repeated efforts by international agencies to ob tain a complete list of prisoners from the Israeli authorities have been unsuc cessful. Israel also refuses to grant prisoner-of-war status to its detainees, in de fiance of international law.3