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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 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 archival res...

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Autor principal: Thompson, Antonio S. (Antonio Scott), 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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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