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Nazi POWs in the Tar Heel State / Robert D. Billinger Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Billinger, Robert D., Jr., 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, American.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Prisoners of war--North Carolina.
- Prisoners of war.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- Germans.
- Germany.
- Germans--North Carolina.
- North Carolina.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 246 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Nazi prisoners of war in the Tar Heel State
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2008]
- Contents:
- 1 The German Visitors: An Introduction 1
- 2 POW Camps in the Tar Heel State: An Introduction 20
- 3 The Afrika Korps Comes to Monroe 35
- 4 North Carolina's Two Base Camps: Fort Bragg and Camp Butner 51
- 5 Branch Camps 70
- 6 Uncle Sam's Willing and Unwilling Workers 105
- 7 Escapes 122
- 8 Reorientation Programs at Camp Butner, Camp Mackall, and Fort Bragg 141
- 9 Winding Down: Late-War and Postwar Reactions 156
- 10 It's Not Over Until It's Over: Memories of France and England 169
- 11 Graves and Memories 181
- Appendix The Jakob Fischer Case 199.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813032245
- 0813032245
- OCLC:
- 173182683
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