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Axis Diplomats in American Custody
- The Housing of Enemy Representatives and Their Exchange for American Counterparts, 1941-1945
Engelsk Paperback

Axis Diplomats in American Custody

- The Housing of Enemy Representatives and Their Exchange for American Counterparts, 1941-1945
Engelsk Paperback

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After Pearl Harbor, German, Italian and Japanese diplomats, along with their staffs and families, were relocated to two lavish but isolated resorts in Appalachia, where the State Department insisted they be treated as distinguished guests. As the war progressed, other Axis envoys were similarly detained. (The Japanese ambassador to Germany was captured by U.S. soldiers in Europe and held in a small hotel in rural Pennsylvania, while the War Department argued for treating him as a war criminal and the local population decried his luxurious accommodations.)

Informants were recruited, attempts at espionage and escape were foiled, diplomats complained and squabbled endlessly, babies were born and townspeople made threats, while newspapers published outlandish exposes of wild parties.

Based on government documents, the recollections of detainees and hotel staff and contemporary newspaper accounts, this book is the first to focus on the day-to-day lives of the nearly 1,000 detainees during their six-month confinement.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9781476664866
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1476664862
Udg. Dato:
30 aug 2016
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
30 aug 2016
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