American prisoners of war in German death, concentration, and slave labor camps
Subtitle: Germany's lethal policy in the Second World War
By: Daniel B. Drooz.
Series: Studies in American history ;; v. 51; Studies in American history (Lewiston, N.Y.) ;; v. 51.
Publisher: E. Mellen Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.; Prisoners of war -- United States.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany.; Concentration camp inmates -- Germany.; Concentration camp inmates -- United States.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Germany.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany.
Description: "Using 16 personal interviews, government documents from Germany and the US, the author explores the experience of American POWs who were held in German concentration, death and slave labor camps. The work provides detailed accounts that document the presence of American POWs in these camps, and explores the reasons why the US government systematically suppressed information about them. It affirms that German policy was to kill as many prisoners as possible from all the allied nations, and systematically legalized its actions. It shows that the murder of POWs in death and concentration camps was not a matter of isolated incidents or random acts, but a planned policy. Other allied nations accepted the reports of their returning troops, but the US government denied the facts and covered them up"--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-329) and index.