Title: Forgotten victims : the abandonment of Americans in Hitlerʾs camps /
Authors: Bard, Mitchell Geoffrey, 1959-
Publisher: Westview Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Jews, American Crimes against Germany History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, German.
Abstract: One common explanation for the world's failure to prevent the Holocaust is that the information about the Nazi extermination program seemed too incredible to believe. Fifty years later, Americans may now also find it difficult to believe that their fellow citizens were among the twelve million people murdered by the Nazis, abandoned to this fate by their own government. The outbreak of war in Europe put tens of thousands of American civilians, especially Jews, in deadly peril, but the State Department failed to help them. As a consequence of this callous policy many suffered - and some died. Later, when the United States joined the war against Hitler, many brave young Americans were captured and imprisoned. Jewish soldiers were at a special risk - they were sent into battle with a telltale "H" (for "Hebrew") on their dog tags, which helped the Nazis single them out for mistreatment.^
Contents: ch. 1. The tragic untold story -- ch. 2. Sorry, you missed the boat: Americans in Europe -- ch. 3. Americans in the Warsaw ghetto: the diary of Mary Berg -- ch. 4. The meaning of fear: soldiers in captivity -- ch. 5. Bodies in the mirror: POWs in Buchenwald -- ch. 6. End of the line for spies- Mauthausen -- ch. 7. Jewish POWs are singled out -- ch. 8. We're building the pyramids again- Berga -- ch. 9. The death march and liberation -- ch. 10. The meaning of survival: life after the camps -- ch. 11. The war crimes trials: justice half-served -- ch. 12. Recognition of the victims.