ISBN:
0521822467
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 359 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. publ.
Year of publication:
2003
DDC:
940.53/17/0973 21
Keywords:
Geschichte 1941-1946
;
Allemands - Déplacement - États-Unis
;
Antinazisme - Amérique latine - Histoire
;
Antinazisme - États-Unis - Histoire
;
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Camps de concentration - États-Unis
;
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Déportés latino-américains
;
Juifs - Déplacement - États-Unis
;
Sécurité nationale - États-Unis
;
Geschichte
;
Juden
;
Weltkrieg (1939-1945)
;
World War, 1939-1945 Deportations from Latin America
;
Germans Relocation
;
Jews Relocation
;
World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps
;
National security
;
Anti-Nazi movement History
;
Anti-Nazi movement History
;
Internierung
;
Deutsche
;
Amérique latine - Relations extérieures - États-Unis
;
États-Unis - Relations extérieures - Amérique latine
;
Lateinamerika
;
USA
;
United States Relations
;
Latin America Relations
;
Lateinamerika
;
Texas
;
Lateinamerika
;
Deutsche
;
Internierung
;
Texas
;
Geschichte 1941-1946
Abstract:
"Based on research in seven countries, this international history uncovers an American security program in which Washington reached into fifteen Latin American countries to seize more than 4,000 German expatriates and intern them in the Texas desert. The crowd of Nazi Party members, antifascist exiles, and even Jewish refugees were lumped together in camps riven by strife." "The book examines the evolution of governmental policy, its impact on individuals and emigrant communities, and the ideological assumptions that blinded officials in both Washington and Berlin to Latin American realities. Franklin Roosevelt's vaunted Good Neighbor policy was a victim of this effort to force reluctant Latin American governments to hand over their German residents, while the operation ruined an opportunity to rescue victims of the Holocaust. This study makes the very contemporary argument that security measures based on group affiliation rather than individual actions are as unjust and ineffective in foreign policy as they are in law enforcement."--BOOK JACKET.
URL:
Publisher description
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=9291
