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Men in German uniform : POWs in America during World War II /

Examining the largest prisoner-of-war handling operation in U.S. history, this book offers a meticulous account of the myriad history, problems as well as the impressive successes that came with housing 371,000 German POWs on American soil during World War II. Antonio Thompson draws on extensive arc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thompson, Antonio S. (Antonio Scott), 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Legacies of war.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Housing the enemy : prisoner of war administration and camp construction -- Sprechen sie Deutsch? : from recruitment in the Third Reich to incarceration in the United States -- Igniting the powder keg : Nazi influence within the camps and the last acts of defiance among POWs -- Love thy enemy : coddling, segregating, and fraternizing with German POWs -- The devil is in the details : German POW labor and the American home front -- Idle hands : recreation and intellectual diversion behind barbed wire -- Exorcising the beast : the reeducation of German POWs in the United States -- Leaving a place called Amerika. 
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