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Arnold Krammer

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Description:THE CAPTIVE ENEMYNever before has the full story been told of how we kept nearly a half a million Nazi prisoners in 511 POW camps across the country, as well as in hastily converted CCC camps, high school gyms, and local fairgrounds. Even Santa Anita race track was used as a holding area for thousands of incoming Africa Korps captives.It was America's first experience handling so many foreign prisoners of war, and there were virtually no precedents upon which to form policy. The War Department simply hammered out decisions as problems arose—and there were difficulties aplenty. There were public relations problems, escapes, Nazism in the camps kangaroo courts, and political murders among the prisoners. Some American camp administrators, in fact, sometimes seemed to favor Nazis over anti-Nazi German prisoners because the former were more "orderly."There was a secret Government "re-education plan" and even a top secret proposal at the highest military level, to allow the enlistment in the U.S. Army of a POW "German Volunteer Corps" to fight the Japanese. More important, hundreds of thousands of Germans were utilized by labor-starved American farmers and businessmen to alleviate the drain of able-bodied workers fighting overseas. German POWs were engaged on projects from lumber production, roadwork, and harvesting crops, to their ironic appearance as contract workers at a kosher meatpacking firm in New Jersey.There are stories of a Nazi-loving American POW guard (a former Harvard ROTC cadet) who, together with several of his charges, escaped briefly to Mexico—of another camp guard who machine-gunned to death eight Nazis after he'd watched an atrocity film—of an American camp commander who insisted that be be saluted with "Heil Hitler"—and of a massive Hitler's birthday demonstration at the Fort Lewis stockade, a Nazi banner atop the flagpole. One escaped German prisoner received a tax rebate from the IRS and opened a bookstore in Chicago. Georg Gaertner, another Nazi POW, remains at large today.Illustrated with more than 70 rare photos, many of them never published before, this is the definitive history of one of the most incredible and least-known facets of America's participation in the Second World War.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Nazi Prisoners of War in America. To get started finding Nazi Prisoners of War in America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: THE CAPTIVE ENEMYNever before has the full story been told of how we kept nearly a half a million Nazi prisoners in 511 POW camps across the country, as well as in hastily converted CCC camps, high school gyms, and local fairgrounds. Even Santa Anita race track was used as a holding area for thousands of incoming Africa Korps captives.It was America's first experience handling so many foreign prisoners of war, and there were virtually no precedents upon which to form policy. The War Department simply hammered out decisions as problems arose—and there were difficulties aplenty. There were public relations problems, escapes, Nazism in the camps kangaroo courts, and political murders among the prisoners. Some American camp administrators, in fact, sometimes seemed to favor Nazis over anti-Nazi German prisoners because the former were more "orderly."There was a secret Government "re-education plan" and even a top secret proposal at the highest military level, to allow the enlistment in the U.S. Army of a POW "German Volunteer Corps" to fight the Japanese. More important, hundreds of thousands of Germans were utilized by labor-starved American farmers and businessmen to alleviate the drain of able-bodied workers fighting overseas. German POWs were engaged on projects from lumber production, roadwork, and harvesting crops, to their ironic appearance as contract workers at a kosher meatpacking firm in New Jersey.There are stories of a Nazi-loving American POW guard (a former Harvard ROTC cadet) who, together with several of his charges, escaped briefly to Mexico—of another camp guard who machine-gunned to death eight Nazis after he'd watched an atrocity film—of an American camp commander who insisted that be be saluted with "Heil Hitler"—and of a massive Hitler's birthday demonstration at the Fort Lewis stockade, a Nazi banner atop the flagpole. One escaped German prisoner received a tax rebate from the IRS and opened a bookstore in Chicago. Georg Gaertner, another Nazi POW, remains at large today.Illustrated with more than 70 rare photos, many of them never published before, this is the definitive history of one of the most incredible and least-known facets of America's participation in the Second World War.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Nazi Prisoners of War in America. To get started finding Nazi Prisoners of War in America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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