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Remaking the Conquering Heroes
The Social and Geopolitical Impact of the Post-War American Occupation of Germany
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Remaking the Conquering Heroes
The Social and Geopolitical Impact of the Post-War American Occupation of Germany
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Historical Significance of the Rise of American Martial Tourism in Germany
- Chapter I The Collapse of the World War II Army
- Chapter II “Primarily Interested in the German Fraulein”
- Chapter III The Corrosive Racial Divide
- Chapter IV From Colony to Junior Partner
- Chapter V Between Boot Camp and Summer Camp
- Chapter VI The Beginnings of Gender and Racial Inclusion in the Cold War Military Family
- Chapter VII Remaking the Conquering Heroes: Extending American Power
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index