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Barcode30053003858563
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No940.54 GERO
Title The fifteen : murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America / William Geroux.
Author Geroux, William, author.
CollectionNEW: Adult 900-999
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003858563940.54 GERO3/20/2025 Available

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Personal Name Geroux, William, author.
Title Statement The fifteen : murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America / William Geroux.
Varying Form of Title Murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America
Varying Form of Title 15
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Crown, [2025]
Physical Description xxi, 374 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-356) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Prologue: A Chair and a Clothesline -- Part I: Life and Death in the Fritz Ritz -- From Afrika and the Sea -- "I Just Didn't Lose" -- Incoming -- The Fritz Ritz -- Little Germanies -- "No Place for a Priest" -- Secret Verdicts -- Part II: In German Hands -- King Kong in a Cage -- Wrong Side of the River -- The Bastards Get Lucky -- Part III: Wartime Justice -- "A Gestapo on the Free Soil of Kansas" -- The Rollkommando -- "Reeducating" the Nazis -- Blind Drop -- "The Dachau Treatment" -- Boiling Point -- Bargaining Chips -- "I Could Not Do Otherwise" -- "Nasty Smiles" -- Part IV: Hostage Diplomacy -- A Startling Offer -- Pandemonium -- Hostage Diplomacy -- "Unfavorably Terminated" -- The Elevator Shaft -- "Everything Comes Out Under the Sun" -- Closing the Ledger.
Summary, Etc. "The true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Prisoners of war History 20th century. Germany
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Murder History 20th century. United States
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Prisoner-of-war camps History 20th century. United States
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, American.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Germans History 20th century. United States

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