The Barbed-Wire College : : Reeducating German POWs in the United States During World War II / / Ron Theodore Robin.

From Stalag 17 to The Manchurian Candidate, the American media have long been fascinated with stories of American prisoners of war. But few Americans are aware that enemy prisoners of war were incarcerated on our own soil during World War II. In The Barbed-Wire College Ron Robin tells the extraordin...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1995]
©1995
Year of Publication:1995
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:The William G. Bowen Series ; 22
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 3 halftones 1 map 1 line drawing
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: The Mobilization of Liberal Arts
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Genesis of Reeducation
  • CHAPTER TWO. The POW Camp and the Total Institution
  • CHAPTER THREE. Professors into Propagandists
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Idea Factory and Its Intellectual Laborers
  • PART TWO: Reeducation and High Culture
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Der Ruf: Inner Emigration, Collective Guilt, and the POW
  • CHAPTER SIX. Literature: The Battle of the Books
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Film: Mass Culture and Reeducation
  • PART THREE: The Prison Academy
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Politics and Scholarship: The Reeducation College
  • CHAPTER NINE. The Democracy Seminars: Preparation for "One World"
  • CHAPTER TEN. Variations on the Theme of Reeducation
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Reeducation and the Decline of the American Dons
  • Notes
  • Note on the Sources
  • Index