From German Prisoner Of War To American Citizen

Author : Barbara Schmitter Heisler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476602110

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From German Prisoner of War to American Citizen by Barbara Schmitter Heisler Pdf

Among the many German immigrants to the United States over the years, one group is unusual: former prisoners of war who had spent between one and three years on American soil and who returned voluntarily as immigrants after the war. Drawing on archival sources and in-depth interviews with 35 former prisoners who made the return, the book outlines the conditions that defined their unusual experiences and traces their journeys from captive enemies to American citizens. Although the respondents came from different backgrounds, and arrived in America at different times between 1943 and 1945, their experiences as prisoners of war not only left an indelible impression, they also provided them with opportunities and resources that helped them leave Germany behind and return to the place "where we had the good life."

Author : Barbara Schmitter Heisler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786473113

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From German Prisoner of War to American Citizen by Barbara Schmitter Heisler Pdf

Among the many German immigrants to the United States over the years, one group is unusual: former prisoners of war who had spent between one and three years on American soil and who returned voluntarily as immigrants after the war. Drawing on archival sources and in-depth interviews with 35 former prisoners who made the return, the book outlines the conditions that defined their unusual experiences and traces their journeys from captive enemies to American citizens. Although the respondents came from different backgrounds, and arrived in America at different times between 1943 and 1945, their experiences as prisoners of war not only left an indelible impression, they also provided them with opportunities and resources that helped them leave Germany behind and return to the place "where we had the good life."

Author : Georg Gaertner,Arnold Krammer
Publisher : Scarborough House
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015014621281

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Hitler's Last Soldier in America by Georg Gaertner,Arnold Krammer Pdf

Author : Antonio S. Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476681689

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Axis Prisoners of War in Kentucky by Antonio S. Thompson Pdf

During World War II, Kentuckians rushed from farms to factories and battlefields, leaving agriculture throughout the state--particularly the lucrative tobacco industry--without sufficient labor. An influx of Axis prisoners of war made up the shortfall. Nearly 10,000 German and Italian POWs were housed in camps at Campbell, Breckinridge, Knox and other locations across the state. Under the Geneva Convention, they worked for their captors and helped save Kentucky's crops, while enjoying relative comfort as prisoners--playing sports, performing musicals and taking college classes. Yet, friction between Nazi and anti-Nazi inmates threatened the success of the program. This book chronicles the POW program in Kentucky and the vital contributions the Bluegrass State made to Allied victory.

Author : Arnold Krammer
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1493049526

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Nazi Prisoners of War in America by Arnold Krammer Pdf

This is the only book available that tells the full story of how the U.S. government, between 1942 and 1945, detained nearly half a million Nazi prisoners of war in 511 camps across the country. With a new introduction and illustrated with more than 70 rare photos, Krammer describes how, with no precedents upon which to form policy, America's handling of these foreign prisoners led to the hasty conversation of CCC camps, high school gyms, local fairgrounds, and race tracks to serve as holding areas. The Seattle Times calls Nazi Prisoners of War in America "the definitive history of one of the least known segments of America's involvement in World War II. Fascinating. A notable addition to the history of that war."

Author : Eric Lichtblau
Publisher : HMH
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547669229

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The Nazis Next Door by Eric Lichtblau Pdf

A Newsweek Best Book of the Year: “Captivating . . . rooted in first-rate research” (The New York Times Book Review). In this New York Times bestseller, once-secret government records and interviews tell the full story of the thousands of Nazis—from concentration camp guards to high-level officers in the Third Reich—who came to the United States after World War II and quietly settled into new lives. Many gained entry on their own as self-styled war “refugees.” But some had help from the US government. The CIA, the FBI, and the military all put Hitler’s minions to work as spies, intelligence assets, and leading scientists and engineers, whitewashing their histories. Only years after their arrival did private sleuths and government prosecutors begin trying to identify the hidden Nazis. Now, relying on a trove of newly disclosed documents and scores of interviews, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Eric Lichtblau reveals this little-known and “disturbing” chapter of postwar history (Salon).

Author : Alexis Clark
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620971871

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Enemies in Love by Alexis Clark Pdf

A “New & Noteworthy” selection of The New York Times Book Review “Alexis Clark illuminates a whole corner of unknown World War II history.” —Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci “[A]n irresistible human story. . . . Clark's voice is engaging, and her tale universal.” —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power and American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House A true and deeply moving narrative of forbidden love during World War II and a shocking, hidden history of race on the home front This is a love story like no other: Elinor Powell was an African American nurse in the U.S. military during World War II; Frederick Albert was a soldier in Hitler's army, captured by the Allies and shipped to a prisoner-of-war camp in the Arizona desert. Like most other black nurses, Elinor pulled a second-class assignment, in a dusty, sun-baked—and segregated—Western town. The army figured that the risk of fraternization between black nurses and white German POWs was almost nil. Brought together by unlikely circumstances in a racist world, Elinor and Frederick should have been bitter enemies; but instead, at the height of World War II, they fell in love. Their dramatic story was unearthed by journalist Alexis Clark, who through years of interviews and historical research has pieced together an astounding narrative of race and true love in the cauldron of war. Based on a New York Times story by Clark that drew national attention, Enemies in Love paints a tableau of dreams deferred and of love struggling to survive, twenty-five years before the Supreme Court's Loving decision legalizing mixed-race marriage—revealing the surprising possibilities for human connection during one of history's most violent conflicts.

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476740256

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Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose Pdf

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war. From the high command down to the ordinary soldier, Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews to re-create the war experience with startling clarity and immediacy. From the hedgerows of Normandy to the overrunning of Germany, Ambrose tells the real story of World War II from the perspective of the men and women who fought it.

Author : Betty Cowley
Publisher : Badger Books Inc.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 187856983X

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Stalag Wisconsin by Betty Cowley Pdf

Comprehensive look inside Wisconsin's 38 branch camps that held 20,000 Nazi and Japanese prisoners of war during World War II.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000021725906

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Hearings on Cold War, Korea, WWII POWS by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1462 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116499377

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Debbie Cenziper
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316449663

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Citizen 865 by Debbie Cenziper Pdf

**Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Book Award Finalist** The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two. In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945 that no Western investigator had ever seen. The long-forgotten document, containing more than 700 names, helped unravel the details behind the most lethal killing operation in World War Two. In the tiny Polish village of Trawniki, the SS set up a school for mass murder and then recruited a roving army of foot soldiers, 5,000 men strong, to help annihilate the Jewish population of occupied Poland. After the war, some of these men vanished, making their way to the U.S. and blending into communities across America. Though they participated in some of the most unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, "Trawniki Men" spent years hiding in plain sight, their terrible secrets intact. In a story spanning seven decades, Citizen 865 chronicles the harrowing wartime journeys of two Jewish orphans from occupied Poland who outran the men of Trawniki and settled in the United States, only to learn that some of their one-time captors had followed. A tenacious team of prosecutors and historians pursued these men and, up against the forces of time and political opposition, battled to the present day to remove them from U.S. soil. Through insider accounts and research in four countries, this urgent and powerful narrative provides a front row seat to the dramatic turn of events that allowed a small group of American Nazi hunters to hold murderous men accountable for their crimes decades after the war's end.

Author : Martin F. Auger
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774841535

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Prisoners of the Home Front by Martin F. Auger Pdf

In the middle of the most destructive conflict in human history, the Second World War, almost 40,000 Germans civilians and prisoners of war were detained in internment and work camps across Canada. Prisoners of the Home Front details the organization and day-to-day affairs of these internment camps and reveals the experience of their inmates. Auger concludes that Canada abided by the Geneva Convention; its treatment of German prisoners was humane. This book sheds light on life behind barbed wire, filling an important void in our knowledge of the Canadian home front during the Second World War.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000019824147

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POW/MIA Policy and Process by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Enemy property
ISBN : UCSD:31822019217421

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Return of Confiscated Property by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Considers legislation on return of confiscated property, payment of American war damage claims, and use of interest from the investment of funds obtained under the provisions of the Trading With the Enemy Act for scientific scholarships and fellowships for children of veterans.