Axis Diplomats in American Custody
Subtitle: The Housing of Enemy Representatives and Their Exchange for American Counterparts, 1941-1945
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781476664866
Subjects: United states, history, military
Description: "After Pearl Harbor, German, Italian and Japanese diplomats were relocated to two lavish but isolated resorts in the Allegheny Mountains, where the State Department insisted they be treated as distinguished guests. Other Axis envoys were similarly detained. This book focuses on the day-to-day lives of the nearly 1,000 detainees during their six-month confinement"--