Hitler's Generals in America

Nazi POWs and Allied Military Intelligence

Autor: Derek R Mallett

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Americans are familiar with prisoner of war narratives that detail Allied soldiers' treatment at the...

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Autor

Derek R Mallett

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2013

Pagini

264

EAN

9780813142517

ISBN

9780813142517

Enbook ID

06339490

Editura

The University Press of Kentucky

Greutate

500

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 27

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Americans are familiar with prisoner of war narratives that detail Allied soldiers' treatment at the hands of Germans in World War II: popular books and movies like The Great Escape and Stalag 17 have offered graphic and award-winning depictions of the American POW experience in Nazi camps. Less is known, however, about the Germans captured and held in captivity on U.S. soil during the war. In Hitler's Generals in America, Derek R. Mallett examines the evolution of the relationship between American officials and the Wehrmacht general officers they held as prisoners of war in the United States between 1943 and 1946. During the early years of the war, British officers spied on the German officers in their custody, housing them in elegant estates separate from enlisted soldiers, providing them with servants and cooks, and sometimes becoming their confidants in order to obtain intelligence. The Americans, on the other hand, lacked the class awareness shared by British and German officers. They ignored their German general officer prisoners, refusing them any special treatment. By the end of the war, however, the United States had begun to envision itself as a world power rather than one of several allies providing aid during wartime. Mallett demonstrates how a growing admiration for the German officers' prowess and military traditions, coupled with postwar anxiety about Soviet intentions, drove Washington to collaborate with many Wehrmacht general officers. Drawing on newly available sources, this intriguing book vividly demonstrates how Americans undertook the complex process of reconceptualizing Germans-even Nazi generals-as allies against what they perceived as their new enemy, the Soviet Union.

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