America's invisible Gulag : a biography of German American internment & exclusion in World War II : memory and history / Stephen Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, Stephen, 1938-

Series:

New German-American studies ; vol. 23.

New German-American studies = Neue deutsch-amerikanische Studien ; vol. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--German Americans--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, American.

Oral history.

German Americans.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 379 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2000]

Contents:

Prologue: "The president thought you might like to look them over" 1

Part 1 Flight

1 The Seekers: "They had burnt their bridges" / Shirley Malcolm, John Voelkel, Jr. 13

2 The Proscribed: "We had to get away from there" / Otto Orenstein, Dr. Otto Trott 19

3 The Activists: "I liked the music and the marching" / Alfred Krakau, Melicent Friedrich, Werner John, Ina Kesseler, Elsie Fox 23

Part 2 Arrest

4 Home of the Good Shepherd: "We got no sleep that night" / Shirley Malcolm, Anna Schafer, Carl Tiemann 37

5 Heartland: "One guy was playing with his pistol" / Melicent Friedrich, Eberhard Fuhr, Alfred Krakau 50

6 East: "Would you shoot him?" / Werner John, Amelia Price, Ruth Hood 59

7 West: "Precisely the material out of which saboteurs come" / Elsie Fox, Dr. Otto Trott 70

8 Hawaii: "It's cheaper to watch you guys in a camp" / Griffith Conradt, Otto Orenstein, Bruno, Irina Berg 77

Part 3 Latin American Deportations

9 The Jew: "He had no use whatever for me" / Dr. Julius Maier 89

10 The Businessman: "This is also a commercial war" / Siegfried Hamann 99

Part 4 Army Camps

11 "These guards have orders to shoot to kill" / Ted, Barbara Dreier, Alfred Krakau, Dr. Otto Trott, Werner John 109

Part 5 Immigration and Naturalization Service Camps

12 "For the duration of the war!" / Ina Kesseler 131

13 Ft. Lincoln: "To pass the time we dug tunnels" / Werner John, Alfred Krakau, Elsie Fox 137

14 Crystal City: "I had a good time" / Alfred Plaschke, Alfred Krakau, Ruth Hood, John Voelkel, Jr. 150

Part 6 Home Front

15 "You're up against it" / Carl Tiemann, Cleona, Paul de Gaston 169

Part 7 Exclusion

16 "By the use of force if necessary" 187

17 "His antagonistic, arrogant and belligerent, Germanic attitude" / Heinz Arens, Hermann Harjes, Dr. Alvin, Freda Uhle, Gertrude Schneider, Vilma Ralston 191

Part 8 Parole and Release

18 "You can catch the last ferry" / Shirley Malcolm, Carl Tiemann, Werner Joh 211

19 West and Hawaii: "They drove up in a big white Cadillac" / Dr. Otto Trott, Ted, Barbara Dreier, Otto Orenstein 221

Part 9 Repatriation

20 To Germany: "Germany is in the middle of a war!" / Amelia Price, Ruth Hood, Erna Cummings, Melicent Friedrich, G.E. Schneider, Bert Shepard, John Voelkel, Jr. 235

21 Reprieve: "I saw how democracy works" / Eberhard Fuhr, Alfred Krakau 257

22 To South America: "This life certainly isn't worth living" / Hans Jung, Helen Hackenberg 267

23 East: "God, please don't let me lead a dull life!" / Amelia Price, Ruth Hood, John Voelkel, Jr., Ina Kesseler, G.E. Schneider, Alfred Plaschke, Alfred Krakau, Erna Cummings, Carl Tiemann 283

24 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: "One ever feels this twoness" 293

Author's Postscript: "Hitler taught the world" 300.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-366) and index.

ISBN:

0820449148

OCLC:

42780552