The barbed-wire college :: reeducating German POWs in the United States during World War II /
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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 extraordinary story of the 380,000 German prisoners who filled camps from Rhode Island to Wisconsin, Missouri to New Jersey. Using personal narratives, camp newspapers, and military records, Robin re-creates in arresting detail the attempts of prison officials to mold the daily lives and minds of their captives. From 1943 onward, and in spite of the Geneva Convention, prisoners were subjected to an ambitious reeducation program designed to turn them into American-style democrats. Under the direction of the Pentagon, liberal arts professors entered over five hundred camps nationwide. Deaf to the advice of their professional rivals, the behavioral scientists, these instructors pushed through a program of arts and humanities that stressed only the positive aspects of American society. Aided by German POW collaborators, American educators censored popular books and films in order to promote democratic humanism and downplay class and race issues, materialism, and wartime heroics. Red-baiting pentagon officials added their contribution to the program, as well; by the war's end, the curriculum was more concerned with combating the appeals of communism than with eradicating the evils of National Socialism. But the reeducation officials neglected to account for one factor: an entrenched German military subculture in the camps, complete with a rigid chain of command and a propensity for murdering "traitors." The result of their neglect was utter failure for the reeducation program. By telling the story of the program's rocky existence, however, Ron Robin shows how this intriguing chapter of military history was tied to two crucial episodes of twentieth-century American history: the battle over the future of American education and the McCarthy-era hysterics that awaited postwar America |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (x, 217 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-211) and index. |
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| spelling | Robin, Ron Theodore. The barbed-wire college : reeducating German POWs in the United States during World War II / Ron Robin. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1995. 1 online resource (x, 217 pages) : illustrations, map text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier polychrome. rdacc http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003 text file rdaft http://rdaregistry.info/termList/fileType/1002 Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-211) and index. Print version record. 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. 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 extraordinary story of the 380,000 German prisoners who filled camps from Rhode Island to Wisconsin, Missouri to New Jersey. Using personal narratives, camp newspapers, and military records, Robin re-creates in arresting detail the attempts of prison officials to mold the daily lives and minds of their captives. From 1943 onward, and in spite of the Geneva Convention, prisoners were subjected to an ambitious reeducation program designed to turn them into American-style democrats. Under the direction of the Pentagon, liberal arts professors entered over five hundred camps nationwide. Deaf to the advice of their professional rivals, the behavioral scientists, these instructors pushed through a program of arts and humanities that stressed only the positive aspects of American society. Aided by German POW collaborators, American educators censored popular books and films in order to promote democratic humanism and downplay class and race issues, materialism, and wartime heroics. Red-baiting pentagon officials added their contribution to the program, as well; by the war's end, the curriculum was more concerned with combating the appeals of communism than with eradicating the evils of National Socialism. But the reeducation officials neglected to account for one factor: an entrenched German military subculture in the camps, complete with a rigid chain of command and a propensity for murdering "traitors." The result of their neglect was utter failure for the reeducation program. By telling the story of the program's rocky existence, however, Ron Robin shows how this intriguing chapter of military history was tied to two crucial episodes of twentieth-century American history: the battle over the future of American education and the McCarthy-era hysterics that awaited postwar America World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, American. World War, 1939-1945 Education and the war. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148406 World War, 1939-1945 United States. World War, 1939-1945 Psychological aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148482 Prisoners of war Germany History 20th century. Prisoners of war United States History 20th century. Education, Higher United States History 20th century. Social sciences United States History 20th century. Education, Humanistic United States History 20th century. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Éducation et guerre. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 États-Unis. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Aspect psychologique. Prisonniers de guerre Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle. Éducation humaniste États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle. HISTORY Military World War II. bisacsh Education, Higher fast Education, Humanistic fast Prisoners of war fast Psychological aspects fast Social sciences fast War and education fast Germany fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtCD3rcKcPDx6FHmjvrbd United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBbhpRH9XvjbDFXtxhb 1900 - 1999 fast World War 2 Prisoners of war United States History fast Print version: Robin, Ron Theodore. Barbed-wire college. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1995 0691037000 (DLC) 94021161 (OCoLC)30783200 |
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| title_alt | The Genesis of Reeducation The POW Camp and the Total Institution Professors into Propagandists The Idea Factory and Its Intellectual Laborers Der Ruf: Inner Emigration, Collective Guilt, and the POW Literature: The Battle of the Books Film: Mass Culture and Reeducation Politics and Scholarship: The Reeducation College The Democracy Seminars: Preparation for "One World" Variations on the Theme of Reeducation Reeducation and the Decline of the American Dons |
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