From war to peace in 1945 Germany : a GI's experience /
"As an Official Army Photographer, "Mac" Fleming's assignment was to take motion pictures of significant wartime events for the U.S. Army. In the first-aid kit on his belt, he also carried a small personal camera, which he used to take pictures of the people and places that inter...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2016]
Bloomington, Indiana : [2016] |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by James H. Madison
- Introduction
- PART I. THE WAR : A CHRONOLOGICAL STORY. Battle for Remagen Bridge across the Rhine River
- Fast evacuation of wounded : an experiment
- Continued fighting
- On leave in Paris for training
- Advance through the Hartz Mountains
- Civilians during the war
- Russians in East Germany Part I : linkup at the Elbe River
- Russians in East Germany Part II : Russians occupy the land
- Gardelegen atrocity
- PART II. THE PEACE : A TOPICAL STORY OF MILITARY OCCUPATION. Rules of the occupying US Army
- Wartime destruction
- People on the move following victory in Europe, May 7
- Displaced persons, or DPs : a nice name for slave labor
- German village and country life
- Reminders of the past
- Relations between US soldiers and German civilians
- Where are the German PWs?
- Entertainment and rest
- Going home
- Afterword / by Bradley D. Cook
- Foreword by James H. Madison
- Introduction
- PART I. THE WAR : A CHRONOLOGICAL STORY. Battle for Remagen Bridge across the Rhine River
- Fast evacuation of wounded : an experiment
- Continued fighting
- On leave in Paris for training
- Advance through the Hartz Mountains
- Civilians during the war
- Russians in East Germany Part I : linkup at the Elbe River
- Russians in East Germany Part II : Russians occupy the land
- Gardelegen atrocity
- PART II. THE PEACE : A TOPICAL STORY OF MILITARY OCCUPATION. Rules of the occupying US Army
- Wartime destruction
- People on the move following victory in Eeurope, May 7
- Displaced persons, or DPs : a nice name for slave labor
- German village and country life
- Reminders of the past
- Relations between US soldiers and German civilians
- Where are the German PWs?
- Entertainment and rest
- Going home
- Afterword by Bradley D. Cook