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Experiment in occupation : witness to the turnabout, anti-Nazi war to Cold War, 1944-1946 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kahn, Arthur David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Kahn, Arthur David.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
Cold War.
Military government > Germany.
Germany > History > 1945-1955.
Table of Contents:
  • Why we fight!
  • Soviet partisans and Soviet suspicions, Summer 1944
  • "We do not call upon the Germans to revolt", Fall 1944
  • The capture-liberation of Metz
  • The Battle of the Bulge, Winter 1944-1945
  • Mainz: investigating a pre-VE Day military government, Spring 1945
  • Interrogating victims of Nazism and Nazis
  • Wuerzburg: another military government experience
  • "What we Russians like to consider as a typical American!"
  • Policy clash in military government
  • "Crack Patton's military government wide open!", Summer 1945
  • "If only you Americans weren't here...!"
  • Patton's last stand
  • Elections, the American cure-all, Fall 1945
  • Rehearsal for McCarthyism
  • Triumph of the Cold Warriors
  • A military government in crisis, Winter 1945-1946
  • Elections: the American panacea II
  • Democracy, American zone style!
  • Summing up and the collective guilt issue, Spring 1946
  • Demoralized GIs
  • Epilogue: 1946-1947.