Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
06.04.2008
Abbildungen
mit Illustrationen
Verlag
University Press of FloridaSeitenzahl
256
Maße (L/B/H)
24/16.4/2.8 cm
Gewicht
539 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8130-3224-5
More than 10,000 German prisoners of war were interned in eighteen camps in North Carolina during World War II. Yet apart from the guards, civilian workers, and FBI and local police who tracked escapees, most people were--and remain--unaware of their presence. Utilizing interviews with former prisoners and their guards, Red Cross and U.S. military reports, German-language camp newspapers, local print media, letters, memoirs, and other archival sources, Robert Billinger is the first to chronicle in detail the German POW experience in North Carolina during WWII. Billinger captures the perceptions of sixty years ago, and demonstrates how the stereotype that all Germans were Nazis evolved over time. The book is dedicated to the insights gained by many POWs, guards, and civilians: that wartime enemies could become life-long friends.
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