The fifteen : murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America / William Geroux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geroux, William, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoner-of-war camps--United States--History--20th century.

Prisoner-of-war camps.

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

World War, 1939-1945.

Prisoners of war--Germany--History--20th century.

Prisoners of war.

Germans--United States--History--20th century.

Germans.

Murder--United States--History--20th century.

Murder.

Genre:

True crime stories.

Physical Description:

xxi, 374 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

15 : murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America

Murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi Prisoners of War in America

Place of Publication:

New York : Crown, [2025]

Summary:

The true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown.

Contents:

Prologue : A chair and a clothesline

Part I : Life and death in the Fritz Ritz. From Afrika and the sea

"I just didn't lose"

Incoming

The Fritz Ritz

Little Germanies

"No place for a priest"

Secret verdicts

Part II : In German hands. King Kong in a cage

Wrong side of the river

The bastards get lucky

Part III : Wartime justice. "A gestapo on the free soil of Kansas"

The Rollkommando

"Reeducating" the Nazis

Blind drop

"The Dachau treatment"

Boiling point

Bargaining chips

"I could not do otherwise"

"Nasty smiles"

Part IV : Hostage diplomacy. A startling offer

Pandemonium

Hostage diplomacy

"Unfavorably terminated"

The elevator shaft

"Everything comes out under the sun"

Closing the ledger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-356) and index.

ISBN:

9780593594254

0593594258

OCLC:

1442330926

Publisher Number:

90101651940