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Defiant diplomat George Platt Waller : American consul in Nazi-occupied Luxembourg, 1939-1941 / edited by Willard Allen Fletcher and Jean Tucker Fletcher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waller, George Platt, 1889-1962.
- Series:
- Good Answers To Tough Questions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Luxembourg.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Europe, Western.
- Diplomats--United States--Biography.
- Diplomats.
- Luxembourg--History--German occupation, 1940-1944.
- Luxembourg.
- Waller, George Platt, 1889-1962.
- Waller, George Platt.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "American diplomat George Platt Waller's memoir" of his experiences in Luxembourg from 1939-1941 reveals the plight of a small neutral country invaded by Nazi Germany. His vivid account of the response of Luxembourgers to war and occupation and his own efforts to help refugees offers a compelling story of witness and resistance to evil in the Second World War.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Editors' Introduction; They Never Found A Quisling; Preface; Chapter 1. Ante-Chamber to Paradise; Chapter 2. Thunder on the Moselle; Chapter 3. The Sitz-Krieg; Chapter 4. The Evening of the Ninth of May; Chapter 5. So Fair and Foul a Day I Have Not Seen; Chapter 6. General Gullmann Calls; Chapter 7. The Diplomats Depart; Chapter 8. Belgium after the Surrender; Chapter 9. German Generals Toast the President; Chapter 10. I Become Consul; Chapter 11. A Visit from the R.A.F.; Chapter 12. Pack und Gesindel; Chapter 13. The Volksdeutsche Bewegung
- Chapter 14. Cologne Chapter 15. Persecution of Luxembourg Jews; Chapter 16. The Curé of Moersdorf; Chapter 17. The Gauleiter Embarkson Education Reform; Chapter 18. Into the Dustbin with d'Gëlle Fra, the Army, and the Law; Chapter 19. It's Not So Simple-Exchanging French for German; Chapter 20. Underground Organizations; Chapter 21. The Nine O'Clock Mass; Chapter 22. Cologne Revisited; Chapter 23. The Comforter of the Afflicted; Chapter 24. In Sure and Certain Hope; Epilogue; Editors' Afterword; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index; About the Editors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61149-720-5
- 9786613648075
- 1-61149-399-4
- 1-280-67114-9
- OCLC:
- 845244574
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