The barbed-wire college : reeducating German POWs in the United States during World War II /

From Stalag 17 to The Manchurian Candidate, the American media have long been fascinated with stories of American prisoners of war. But few Americans are aware that enemy prisoners of war were incarcerated on our own soil during World War II. In The Barbed-Wire College Ron Robin tells the extraordin...

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1. Verfasser: Robin, Ron Theodore
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1995.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Ch. 1 The Genesis of Reeducation 17
  • Ch. 2 The POW Camp and the Total Institution 30
  • Ch. 3 Professors into Propagandists 43
  • Ch. 4 The Idea Factory and Its Intellectual Laborers 59
  • Ch. 5 Der Ruf: Inner Emigration, Collective Guilt, and the POW 75
  • Ch. 6 Literature: The Battle of the Books 91
  • Ch. 7 Film: Mass Culture and Reeducation 107
  • Ch. 8 Politics and Scholarship: The Reeducation College 127
  • Ch. 9 The Democracy Seminars: Preparation for "One World" 145
  • Ch. 10 Variations on the Theme of Reeducation 162
  • Ch. 11 Reeducation and the Decline of the American Dons 180.