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Remaking The Conquering Heroes: The Social And Geopolitical Impact Of The Post-war American Occupation Of Germany
Willoughby J.
Remaking The Conquering Heroes: The Social And Geopolitical Impact Of The Post-war American Occupation Of Germany J. Willoughby - Palgrave Macmillan 2001 - 187p. 14.61 x 1.91 x 20.96 cm
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.
9780312234003
940.5338 / WIL
Remaking The Conquering Heroes: The Social And Geopolitical Impact Of The Post-war American Occupation Of Germany J. Willoughby - Palgrave Macmillan 2001 - 187p. 14.61 x 1.91 x 20.96 cm
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.
9780312234003
940.5338 / WIL