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From War to Peace in 1945 Germany : A GI's Experience /

"As an Official Army Photographer, "Mac" Fleming's assignment was to take motion pictures of significant wartime events for the U.S. Army. In the first-aid kit on his belt, he also carried a small personal camera, which he used to take pictures of the people and places that inter...

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Autor principal: Fleming, Malcolm L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Foreword by James H. Madison
  • Introduction
  • PART I. THE WAR : A CHRONOLOGICAL STORY. Battle for Remagen Bridge across the Rhine River
  • Fast evacuation of wounded : an experiment
  • Continued fighting
  • On leave in Paris for training
  • Advance through the Hartz Mountains
  • Civilians during the war
  • Russians in East Germany Part I : linkup at the Elbe River
  • Russians in East Germany Part II : Russians occupy the land
  • Gardelegen atrocity
  • PART II. THE PEACE : A TOPICAL STORY OF MILITARY OCCUPATION. Rules of the occupying US Army
  • Wartime destruction
  • People on the move following victory in Eeurope, May 7
  • Displaced persons, or DPs : a nice name for slave labor
  • German village and country life
  • Reminders of the past
  • Relations between US soldiers and German civilians
  • Where are the German PWs?
  • Entertainment and rest
  • Going home
  • Afterword by Bradley D. Cook.