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Kurt Frank Korf's story is one of the most unusual to come out of World War II. Although German-Americans were America's largest ethnic group, and German-Americans-including thousands of native-born ...Germans-fought bravely in all theaters, there are few full first-person accounts by German- Americans of their experiences during the 1930s and 1940s.Drawing on his correspondence and on oral histories and interviews with Korf, Patricia Kollander paints a fascinating portrait of a privileged young man forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1937 because the infamous Nuremburg Laws had relegated him to the status of second-degree mixed breed(Korf had one Jewish grandparent).Settling in New York City, Korf became an FBI informant, watching pro-Nazi leaders like Fritz Kuhn and the German-American Bund as they moved among the city's large German immigrant community. Soon after, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving in Germany as an intelligence officer during the Battle of the Bulge, and as a prisoner of war camp administrator. After the war, Korf stayed on as a U.S. government attorney in Berlin and Munich, working to hunt down war criminals, and lent his expertise in the effort to determine the authenticity of Joseph Goebbels's diaries. Kurt Frank Korf died in 2000.Kollander not only draws a detailed portrait of this unique figure; she also provides a rich context for exploring responses to Nazism in Germany, the German-American position before and during the war, the community's later response to Nazism and its crimes, and the broader issues of ethnicity, religion, political ideology, and patriotism in 20th-century America. Patricia Kollander is Associate Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. She is the author of Frederick III: Germany's Liberal Emperor. I Must Be a Part of This Waris part of her ongoing research into the experiences of some fifteen thousand native-born Germans who served in the U.S. Army in World War II. John O'Sullivan was Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University.
While a multitude of New Deal “relief, recovery, and reform” agencies were created in response to the 1930s economic shock, many of these same agencies were subsumed by the Federal Works Agency and ...played key national defense roles during the 1940s. We examine the wartime expenditure patterns of these agencies, as well as spending on war supply contracts and war-related industrial facilities, to determine whether Depression-era economic goals were addressed during the Second World War. We find that some specific aspects of the New Deal economic agenda were carried out during the war. Furthermore, wartime spending by the alphabet agencies was significantly correlated with the expenditure patterns of those agencies during the 1930s, suggesting that the transition from economic to military objectives may not have been as pointed as the Roosevelt Administration often asserted.
At the foot of the front.: Proceedings of the conference “Antifascism among young people and the experience of war,” Perugia June 23, 2005
In calce al front.: Atti del convegno L'Antifascismo tra i ...giovani e l'esperienza della guerra, Perugia 23 giugno 2005
In calce al front.: Atti del convegno L'Antifascismo tra i giovani e l'esperienza della guerra, Perugia 23 giugno 2005
As a case study in wartime resistance, Italy proves to be unique in a number of ways. First, the existence of the Fascist regime in Italy, and its alliance with Hitler, meant that armed resistance ...against the Nazis began only in September 1943, when the armistice with the Allies was signed, and when Germany invaded its former ally. Indeed, after September 8, 1943, Italy was essentially split in half, with the Allies controlling southern Italy and the Axis controlling the North. This divide proved fateful for Italian Jews, who lived almost entirely in central and northern Italy, and who regained
LAURENCE WEINBAUM. A Marriage of Convenience: The New Zionist Organization and the Polish Government, 1936-1939. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs; dist. Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. ...xiii, 295.
DAVID ENGEL. Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1943-1945. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. Pp. x, 317.
