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Loading... Remaking the Conquering Heroes: The Postwar American Occupation of Germanyby John Willoughby
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Remaking the Conquering Heroes shows that American policymakers and Army officers had to confront and take control over a lawless US military in the aftermath of World War II. Money laundering, theft, racial antagonism between black and white GIs, unregulated sex, and high rates of venereal disease threatened to undermine American authority in occupied Germany as much as Soviet-American conflict. Willoughby argues that it was the creative, if disorganized, reaction of American officials in Germany that helped create both a foreign policy framework and more inclusive, familial military establishment capable of consolidating and extending US power during the Cold War. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.5338History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War IILC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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