TY  - GEN
T1  - Terror flyers : the lynching of American airmen in Nazi Germany
A1  - Hall, Kevin T.
LA  - English
PP  - Bloomington, Indiana
PB  - Indiana University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1142939095
AB  - "Terror Flyers examines the "lynch justice" (Lynchjustiz) committed against American airmen in Nazi Germany during World War II. Using engaging first-person accounts of downed pilots, as well as previously unused primary sources, Terror Flyers challenges the notion that such lynchings were exclusively the domain of Nazi party officials and soldiers. New evidence reveals ordinary German people executed Lynchjustiz as well. Initially occurring as a spontaneous reaction to the devastation of the Allied air campaign against the cities of the Third Reich, Lynchjustiz offered the Nazi regime a unique propaganda opportunity to harness the outrage of the German population. Fueled by inspiration from America's own history of the lynching of African Americans, Nazi propaganda exploited the very same imagery found in US publications to escalate the anger of the German people. Drawing heavily on the accounts of the downed airmen themselves, testimonies from the "flyer trials" held in Dachau during 1945-48, and rarely seen Nazi propaganda, Terror Flyers offers a new narrative of this previously overlooked aspect of the Allied campaign in Europe and suggests that at least 3,000 cases of lynch justice likely occurred between 1943 and 1946"--
OP  - 370
CN  - D804.G3 H35 2021
SN  - 0253050162
SN  - 9780253050168
SN  - 9780253050151
SN  - 9780253050175
KW  - United States. : Army Air Forces : Airmen.
KW  - United States. : Army Air Forces
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 : Prisoners and prisons, German.
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 : Atrocities : Germany.
KW  - Lynching : Germany : History : 20th century.
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 : Aerial operations, American.
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 : Campaigns : Germany.
KW  - Civilians in war : Germany.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 : Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands.
KW  - Lynchage : Allemagne : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 : Campagnes et batailles : Allemagne.
KW  - Guerre : Participation des civils : Allemagne.
KW  - HISTORY : Modern : 20th Century.
KW  - Military operations, Aerial : American
KW  - Armed Forces : Airmen
KW  - Atrocities
KW  - Civilians in war
KW  - Lynching
KW  - Military campaigns
KW  - Germany
KW  - Civils et guerre : Allemagne : 1900-1945.
KW  - Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) : Operations aeriennes : États-Unis.
KW  - Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) : Atrocites : Allemagne.
KW  - Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) : Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands.
KW  - Lynchage : Allemagne : 1900-1945.
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -