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

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Thompson, Antonio S. (Antonio Scott), 1975-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2010.
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Soldiers.
Prisoners of war.
Germans.
Prisonniers de guerre > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Camps d'internement > États-Unis.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > États-Unis.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, American.
Prisoners of war > United States > History > 20th century.
Prisoners of war > Germany > History > 20th century.
Soldiers > Germany > History > 20th century.
Germans > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States.
United States.
Germany.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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