The Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States during World War II

TitleThe Barbed-Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States during World War II
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1995
AuthorsRobin, Ron
Number of Pages217 pp.
PublisherPrinceton University Press
CityPrinceton, NJ
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780691037004
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Includes interesting chapter on selection of reading material to German prisoners of war.

Contents:
The Genesis of Reeducation
The POW Camp and the Total Institution
Professors into Propagandists
The Idea Factory and Its Intellectual Laborers
Der Ruf: Inner Emigration, Collective Guilt, and the POW
Literature: The Battle of the Books
Film: Mass Culture and Reeducation
Politics and Scholarship: The Reeducation College
The Democracy Seminars: Preparation for "One World"
Variations on the Theme of Reeducation
Reeducation and the Decline of the American Dons

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