Forgotten Victims
The Abandonment Of Americans In Hitler's Camps
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2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-15904-7 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-15904-7 (ISBN)
This book, which examines the fate of Americans who fell into Nazi hands, argues that much of the evidence has been concealed by the US Government for half a century, in an attempt to avoid uncomfortable questions about its failure to offer safe havens to the Nazis' main targets: European Jews.
The outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 put tens of thousands of American civilians, especially Jews, in deadly peril, and yet the US State Department failed to help them. Consequently many suffered and some died. Later, when the United States joined the war against Hitler, many American and, in particular, Jewish American soldiers were captured and
The outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 put tens of thousands of American civilians, especially Jews, in deadly peril, and yet the US State Department failed to help them. Consequently many suffered and some died. Later, when the United States joined the war against Hitler, many American and, in particular, Jewish American soldiers were captured and
Preface -- The Tragic Untold Story -- Sorry, You Missed the Boat: Americans in Europe -- Americans in the Warsaw Ghetto: The Diary of Mary Berg -- The Meaning of Fear: Soldiers in Captivity -- Bodies in the Mirror: POWs in Buchenwald -- End of the Line for Spies-Mauthausen -- Jewish POWs Are Singled Out -- We're Building the Pyramids Again-Berga -- The Death March and Liberation -- The Meaning of Survival: Life After the Camps -- The War Crimes Trials: Justice Half-Served -- Recognition of the Victims
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.06.2021 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 149 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 280 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-367-15904-X / 036715904X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-15904-7 / 9780367159047 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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