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

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Year of Publication
1995
Contributors Author: Ron Robin
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217 pp.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
City
Princeton, NJ
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9780691037004
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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