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  title info:
    title: Prisoners of war-cold war allies
    sub title: the Anglo-American relationship with Wehrmacht generals
  name:
    name part: Mallett, Derek R.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Krammer, Arnold P.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: This study examines the relationship between British and American officials and the fifty-five Wehrmacht general officers who were held as prisoners of war in the United States during World War II. This relationship transformed as the war developed and new national security concerns emerged in the immediate postwar era. As largely evidenced by the records of the United States War Department and the British War Office, the transformation of this relationship illustrates two important points. First, despite some similarities, the respective priorities of British and American authorities regarding their POW general officers differed significantly. British officials consistently interrogated and eavesdropped on all of their senior officer prisoners, primarily seeking operational and tactical intelligence to aid the Allied war effort. By contrast, American officials initially had little regard for the value of Wehrmacht general officer POWs. Second, by the end of the war, admiration for the prowess of German officers and the German military tradition in particular, coupled with anxiety about Soviet intentions and the strength of the Red Army, drove Washington into a collaborative relationship with many of the Wehrmacht general officers in its custody. The evolution of America's national security concerns in the years immediately following the end of World War II impacted its policy governing the treatment of high-ranking prisoners of war.
  note: by Derek Ray Mallett.
  note: "August 2009."
  note: "Major Subject: History"
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-869
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major history
  subject:
    topic: Prisoners of War
  subject:
    topic: Wehrmacht General Officers
  subject:
    topic: German General Officers
  subject:
    topic: Cold War
  subject:
    topic: World War II
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-869
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 120323
    record change date: 20151202151924.0
    record identifier: in00002740446