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Genre/Form: | Interviews |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Barbara Schmitter Heisler |
ISBN: | 9780786473113 0786473118 |
OCLC Number: | 810120284 |
Description: | vii, 203 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The Germans are coming -- An astonishing introduction: thirty-five POWs experience America -- Repatriation to Germany and return to America -- Pathways to immigration: from German prisoner of war to American citizen -- Prisoners of war and international migration. |
Responsibility: | Barbara Schmitter Heisler. |
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Abstract:
"Drawing on archival sources and in-depth interviews with 35 former prisoners who immigrated, the book outlines the conditions and circumstances that defined their unusual experiences and traces their journeys from captive enemies to American citizens"--

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