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Author:

Thompson, Antonio S. (Antonio Scott), 1975-

Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Tennessee Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xiv, 178 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-173) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Legacies of war

ISBN:

1572337281 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781572337282 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)624036846

LCCN:

2010019337

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)