Robin The Barbed-Wire College

Reeducating German POWs in the United States During World War II
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2162-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 22, 224 Seiten

Reihe: The William G. Bowen Series

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Robin, Ron Theodore

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction 3

Ch. 1 The Genesis of Reeducation 17

Ch. 2 The POW Camp and the Total Institution 30

Ch. 3 Professors into Propagandists 43

Ch. 4 The Idea Factory and Its Intellectual Laborers 59

Ch. 5 Der Ruf: Inner Emigration, Collective Guilt, and the POW 75

Ch. 6 Literature: The Battle of the Books 91

Ch. 7 Film: Mass Culture and Reeducation 107

Ch. 8 Politics and Scholarship: The Reeducation College 127

Ch. 9 The Democracy Seminars: Preparation for "One World" 145

Ch. 10 Variations on the Theme of Reeducation 162

Ch. 11 Reeducation and the Decline of the American Dons 180

Notes 189

Note on the Sources 209

Index 213

Über Autor(innen)

Ron Robin teaches history at the University of Haifa in Israel. Among his books is Enclaves of America: The Rhetoric of American Political Architecture Abroad, 1900-1965 (Princeton).