Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWs in Florida - The Florida History and Culture Series - Robert D. Billinger Jr. - Books - University Press of Florida - 9780813034416 - October 11, 2009
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Robert D. Billinger Jr.
Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWs in Florida - The Florida History and Culture Series

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In the first book-length treatment of the German prisoner of war experience in Florida during World War II, Robert D. Billinger, Jr., tells the story of the 10,000 men who were "guests" of Uncle Sam in a tropical paradise that for some became a tropical hell. Having been captured while serving on U-boats off the Carolinas, with the Afrika Korps in Tunisia, with the paratroops in Italy, or with labor battalions in France, the POWs were among the 378,000 Germans held as prisoners in 45 states. Except for the servicemen who guarded them, the civilian pulp-cutters, citrus growers, and sugarcane foremen who worked them, and the FBI and local police who tracked the escapees among them, most people were--and still are--unaware of the German POWs who inhabited the 27 camps that dotted the Sunshine State. Billinger describes the experiences of the Germans and their captors as both sides came to the realization that, while the Germans' worst enemies were often their own comrades-in-arms, wartime enemies might also become life-long friends. Concentrating especially on the story of Camp Blanding in North Florida, Billinger based his research on both American and German archives. His account mixes rare photos with interviews with former prisoners; reports by the International Red Cross, the YMCA, and the U. S. military; and local newspaper articles.

262 pages, illustrations

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 11, 2009
ISBN13 9780813034416
Publishers University Press of Florida
Pages 286
Dimensions 137 × 226 × 20 mm   ·   512 g
Language English  

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