Hitler's soldiers in the Sunshine State : German POWs in Florida

Publication

-

Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Hitler's soldiers in the Sunshine State : German POWs in Florida

Entry/Object ID

Library.1201

Description

xvii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: National Context -- Uncle Sam's Smiling Workers -- U-boat Men and Other Naval Prisoners: Special Breed, Special Problems -- When the Afrika Korps Came to Blanding: Riots and Repatriations -- The "Worst Camp in America": Clewiston Escapes and a Suicide -- Escapees: The Individualists, the Threatened, and the Alienated -- MacDill Menus and Belle Glade Beans: The Press and Coddling Charges -- On the Threshold: Reeducation Efforts in the Blanding and Gordon Johnston Camps -- The Long Way Home: Repatriation -- Epilogue: Graves, Alumni, and Memories -- 1,250 Miles through Florida.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, American., Prisoners of war -- Germany., Prisoners of war -- Florida., Florida -- History, Military.

Publication Details

Author

Billinger, Robert D., Jr

Publisher

Univeristy Press of Florida

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Gainesvilles, FL

Call No.

D 805 .U5 B55 2000

ISBN

9780813034416

LCCN

9931274