Nazis and Good Neigbors: the United States Campaign against the Germans of Latin America in World War II

Friedman, Max Paul

Verlag: Cambridge University Press (2003), Cambridge, 2003

Beschreibung

orig.boards Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper Textual photo illustrations 23x15cm, xii,359 pp Contents: Introduction: Nazis and Good Neighbors; Contamination; Assessment; Blacklisting; Deportation; Internment; Justice; Expropriation; Repatriation; Epilogue: The New Menace. Conclusion: There Went the Neighbourhood. ["Based on research in seven countries, this international history uncovers an American security program in which Washington reached into fifteen Latin American countries to seize more than 4000 German expatriates and intern them in the Texas desert. The crowd of Nazi Party members, anti-fascist exiles, and even Jewish refugees were lumped together in camps riven by strife. The book examines the evolution of governmental policy, and the ideological assumptions that blinded officials in both Washington and Berlin to Latin American realities. Franklin Roosevelt's vaunted 'Good Neighbor policy' was a victim of this effort to force reluctant Latin American governments to hand over their German residents, while the operation ruined an opportunity to rescue victims of the Holocaust. This study makes a very contemporary argument: that security measures based on group affiliation rather than individual actions are as unjust and ineffective in foreign policy as they are in law enforcement." - publisher's description] Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001732

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Nazis and Good Neigbors: the United States ...

Verlag: Cambridge University Press (2003), Cambridge

Erscheinungsdatum: 2003

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket Included