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U-Boat Commander Oskar Kusch : anatomy of a Nazi-era betrayal and judicial murder / Eric C. Rust.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rust, Eric C., 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kusch, Oskar, 1918-1944.
- Kusch, Oskar.
- Germany. Kriegsmarine--Officers--Biography.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarine.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, German.
- Submarine captains--Germany--Biography.
- Submarine captains.
- Trials (Treason)--Germany.
- Trials (Treason).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- This study, the first scholarly work on Kusch in English, traces his career and ordeal from his upbringing in Berlin to his tragic death and beyond, including the fifty-year struggle to rehabilitate his name and restore his honor in a postwar Germany long loath to confront the darker dimensions of its past.
- Contents:
- Lorient
- Lieutenant Kusch
- Lieutenant Abel
- First Patrol
- Second Patrol
- The Report
- The Trial
- Agony
- El Doce de Mayo
- Wakes
- A Summing Up.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-68247-515-8
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