Remaking the Conquering Heroes: The Social and Geopolitical Impact of the Post-war American Occupation of Germany: The Social and Geopolitical Impact of the Early American Occupation of Europe Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Remaking the Conquering Heroes: The Social and Geopolitical Impact of the Post-war American Occupation of Germany: The Social and Geopolitical Impact of the Early American Occupation of Europe 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.Read More

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  • 0312234007
  • 9780312234003
  • John Willoughby
  • 9 March 2001
  • Saint Martin's Press Inc.
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 208
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