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028 52 3316253 |bUMI
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100 1  Weis, Andrea.
245 11 "On behalf of my comrades" : |btransnational private memories of German prisoners of war in U.S. captivity / |cby Andrea Weis.
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2008.
300    189 pages
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
502    Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kansas, 2008.
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-188).
520     On May 8, 1945 eleven to twelve million Germans experienced the fall of National Socialist Germany while in Allied captivity;1 four million German soldiers experienced it as captives of the United States. These Germans not only had to negotiate and respond to "victorious" Americans who judged them by standards different from those in the regime for which they fought, but also had to put into perspective their active investment in a political and social structure that had initiated and carried out global war and genocide. This study analyzes nine personal interviews conducted between 2001 and 2004 to address how German soldiers and war prisoners remember their "private" experiences of the rupture of Germany's defeat and their transnational relations with U.S. personnel in captivity. By employing popular memory theory, it will investigate how German veterans, sixty years after the war, compose private memories and senses of self in the persistent shadows of their National Socialist past.1This number includes a small percentage of persons of other nationalities who had to fight or volunteered to fight for the Germans in western and eastern war theaters. The number also includes civilians who had worked for National Socialist offices and organizations.
530    Electronic version(s)  |bavailable internally at USHMM.
533    Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services. |e22 cm.
590     Dissertations and Theses
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, American.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, German.
650  0 Prisoners of war |zGermany.
650  0 Prisoners of war |zUnited States.
655  7 Personal narratives. |2lcgft
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