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Author : Lorrin L. Morrison
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2013-04
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ISBN : 9781258692582
Contributing Authors Include D. E. Livingston-Little, Edward Inskeep, Francis R. Holland, Jr. And Many Others.
Author : Lorrin L. Morrison
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Page : 156 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2013-04
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ISBN : 9781258686444
Contributing Authors Include Charles L. Camp, Richard A. Hernandez, Leo P. Kibby, And Many Others.
Author : Lorrin L. Morrison
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Page : 530 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic journals
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Author : Lorrin L. Morrison
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2013-04
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ISBN : 9781258687786
Contributing Authors Include Jack D. Forbes, James G. Caster, Theodore C. Hinckley, And Many Others.
Author : Lorrin L. Morrison
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 2013-04
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ISBN : 9781258686178
Contributing Authors Include Benjamin Franklin Gilbert, Oakah L. Jones, Jr., Martin Cole, And Many Others.
Author : Lorrin L. Morrison
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2013-04
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ISBN : 9781258685966
Contributing Authors Include Jack D. Forbes, James G. Caster, Theodore C. Hinckley, And Many Others.
Author : Antonio S. Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1476681678
During World War II, Axis prisoners of war received arguably better treatment in the U.S. than anywhere else. Bound by the Geneva Convention but also hoping for reciprocal treatment of American POWs, the U.S. sought to humanely house and employ 425,000 Axis prisoners, many in rural communities in the South. This is the first book-length examination of Tennessee's role in the POW program, and how the influx of prisoners affected communities. Towns like Tullahoma transformed into military metropolises. Memphis received millions in defense spending. Paris had a secret barrage balloon base. The wooded Crossville camp housed German and Italian officers. Prisoners worked tobacco, lumber and cotton across the state. Some threatened escape or worse. When the program ended, more than 25,000 POWs lived and worked in Tennessee.
Author : Antonio S. Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1476681686
During World War II, Kentuckians rushed from farms to factories and battlefields, leaving agriculture throughout the state--particularly the lucrative tobacco industry--without sufficient labor. An influx of Axis prisoners of war made up the shortfall. Nearly 10,000 German and Italian POWs were housed in camps at Campbell, Breckinridge, Knox and other locations across the state. Under the Geneva Convention, they worked for their captors and helped save Kentucky's crops, while enjoying relative comfort as prisoners--playing sports, performing musicals and taking college classes. Yet, friction between Nazi and anti-Nazi inmates threatened the success of the program. This book chronicles the POW program in Kentucky and the vital contributions the Bluegrass State made to Allied victory.
Author : Antonio Thompson
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1572337427
Examining the largest prisoner-of-war handling operation in U.S. history, this book offers a meticulous account of the myriad history, this book offers a meticulous account of the myriad problems—as well as the impressive successes—that came with problems—as well as the impressive successes—that came with housing 371,000 German POWs on American soil during World War II. Antonio Thompson draws on extensive archival research to probe the various ways in which the U.S. government strove to comply with the Geneva Convention’s mandate that enemy prisoners be moved from the war zone and given food, shelter, and clothing equal to that provided for American soldiers. While the prisoners became a ready source of manpower for the labor- starved American home front and received small wages in return, their stay in the United States generated more than a few difficulties, which included not only daunting logistics but also violence within the camps. Such violence was often blamed on Nazi influence and control; however, as Thompson points out, only a few of the prisoners were actually Nazis. Because the Germans had cobbled together military forces that included convicts, their own POWs, volunteers from neutral nations, and conscripts from occupied countries, the bonds that held these soldiers together amid the pressures of combat dissolved once they were placed behind barbed wire. When these “men in German uniform,” who were not always Germans, donned POW garb, their former social, racial, religious, and ethnic tensions quickly reemerged. To counter such troubles, American authorities organized various activities—including sports, arts, education, and religion—within the POW camps; some prisoners even participated in an illegal denazification program created by the U.S. government. Despite the problems, Thompson argues, the POW-housing program proved largely successful, as Americans maintained their reputation for fairness and humane treatment during a time of widespread turmoil.
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Page : 534 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Meteorology
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