Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in World War II

ISBN-13: 9780521675352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 372 str.

Max Paul Friedman

Opis

This book is an expose of a secret American operation during World War II to seize 4,000 Germans from Latin America and intern them in camps in the Texas desert. Rather than Nazi spies and saboteurs, they turned out to be a broad range of German immigrants, even Jewish refugees, most of whom posed no danger to national security. Research in seven countries reveals the diplomatic intrigues and human impact of a misguided policy that offers important lessons about US relations with Latin America, the failure to rescue victims of the Holocaust, and the treatment of civilians in wartime.

Recenzje

'Nazis and Good Neighbors is a valuable contribution to scholarship on the wartime involvement of the smaller Latin American republics. Friedman has written a meticulous study about a long-forgotten aspect of transatlantic history, which has gained new relevance lately … It adds a fascinating perspective … this book is brilliantly written and offers many vivid examples, well chosen illustrations and personal recollections …' Iberoamericana

Spis treści

1. Contamination; 2. Assessment; 3. Blacklisting; 4. Deportation; 5. Internment; 6. Justice; 7. Expropriation; 8. Repatriation; 9. The new menace; 10. There went the neighborhood.