Terror Flyers

Terror Flyers
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 9780253050168
ISBN-13 : 0253050162
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Terror Flyers by : Kevin T Hall

Terror Flyers examines the "lynch justice" (Lynchjustiz) committed against American airmen in Nazi Germany during World War II. Using engaging first-person accounts of downed pilots, as well as previously unused primary sources, Terror Flyers challenges the notion that such lynchings were exclusively the domain of Nazi party officials and soldiers. New evidence reveals ordinary German people executed Lynchjustiz as well. Initially occurring as a spontaneous reaction to the devastation of the Allied air campaign against the cities of the Third Reich, Lynchjustiz offered the Nazi regime a unique propaganda opportunity to harness the outrage of the German population. Fueled by inspiration from America's own history of the lynching of African Americans, Nazi propaganda exploited the very same imagery found in US publications to escalate the anger of the German people. Drawing heavily on the accounts of the downed airmen themselves, testimonies from the "flyer trials" held in Dachau during 1945–48, and rarely seen Nazi propaganda, Terror Flyers offers a new narrative of this previously overlooked aspect of the Allied campaign in Europe and suggests that at least 3,000 cases of lynch justice likely occurred between 1943 and 1945.

Forgotten Casualties

Forgotten Casualties
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 9781531502874
ISBN-13 : 1531502873
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Forgotten Casualties by : Kevin T Hall

Sheds new light on the mistreatment of downed airmen during World War II and the overall relationship between the air war and state-sponsored violence. Throughout the vast expanse of the Pacific, the remoteness of Southeast Asia, and the rural and urban communities in Nazi-occupied Europe, more than 120,000 American airmen were shot down over enemy territory during World War II, thousands of whom were mistreated and executed. The perpetrators were not just solely fanatical soldiers or Nazi zealots but also ordinary civilians triggered by the death and devastation inflicted by the war. In Forgotten Casualties, author Kevin T Hall examines Axis violence inflicted on downed Allied airmen during this global war. Compared with all other armed conflicts, World War II exhibited the most widespread and ruthless violence committed against airmen. Flyers were deemed guilty because of their association with the Allied air forces, and their fate remained in the hands of their often-hostile captors. Axis citizens angered by the devastation inflicted by the war, along with the regimes’ consent and often encouragement of citizens to take matters into their own hands, resulted in thousands of Allied flyers’ being mistreated and executed by enraged civilians. Written to help advance the relatively limited discourse on the mistreatment against flyers in World War II, Forgotten Casualties is the first book to analyze the Axis violence committed against Allied airmen in a comparative, international perspective. Effectively comparing and contrasting the treatment of POWs in Germany with that of their counterparts in Japan, Hall’s thorough analysis of rarely seen primary and secondary sources sheds new light on the largely overlooked complex relationship among the air war, propaganda, the role of civilians, and state-sponsored terror during the radicalized conflict. Sources include postwar trial testimonies, Missing Air Crew Reports (MACR), Escape and Evasion reports, perpetrators’ explanations and rationalizations for their actions, extensive judicial sources, transcripts of court proceedings, autopsy reports, appeals for clemency, and justifications for verdicts. Drawing heavily on airmen’s personal accounts and the testimonies of both witnesses and perpetrators from the postwar crimes trials, Forgotten Casualties offers a new narrative of this largely overlooked aspect of Axis violence.

Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuremberg, October 1946-April, 1949: Case 12 : U.S. v. von Leeb (cont.) Case 7: U.S. v. List (Hostage case)

Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuremberg, October 1946-April, 1949: Case 12 : U.S. v. von Leeb (cont.) Case 7: U.S. v. List (Hostage case)
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1352
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112106554840
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuremberg, October 1946-April, 1949: Case 12 : U.S. v. von Leeb (cont.) Case 7: U.S. v. List (Hostage case) by :

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (Vol. 1&2)

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (Vol. 1&2)
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Publisher : e-artnow
Total Pages : 2073
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ISBN-10 : EAN:4064066059439
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (Vol. 1&2) by : Various

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression in 2 volumes is a work by the Office of United States, Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. It presents a compilation of documentary facts and resources prepared by the American and British prosecuting teams for presentation before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg, Germany in the case of the major trial against German officers of the Third Reich.

The Mystery of Frankenberg's Canadian Airman

The Mystery of Frankenberg's Canadian Airman
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Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Total Pages : 262
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1550288849
ISBN-13 : 9781550288841
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mystery of Frankenberg's Canadian Airman by : Peter Hessel

The Mystery of Frankenberg's Airman is the account of painstaking research in a quest for the truth about an unsolved war crime.

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1080
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000090498597
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression by : United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality

The History of Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression

The History of Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression
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Publisher : e-artnow
Total Pages : 2046
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ISBN-10 : EAN:4064066396220
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis The History of Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression by : Various

The History of Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression presents a compilation of documentary facts and resources prepared by the American and British prosecuting teams for presentation before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg, Germany in the case of the major trial against German officers of the Third Reich.

The MATS Flyer

The MATS Flyer
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 492
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:C2573171
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis The MATS Flyer by :

The MAC Flyer

The MAC Flyer
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : MSU:31293011953761
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The MAC Flyer by :