Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment Of Americans In Hitler's Camps

by Mitchel G Bard

Overview

The outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 put tens of thousands of American civilians, especially Jews, in deadly peril, and yet the US State Department failed to help them. Consequently many suffered and some died. Later, when the United States joined the war against Hitler, many American and, in particular, Jewish American soldiers were captured and

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367009175
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/10/2019
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mitchell G. Bard is executive director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise and author of several books on Middle Eastern politics and U.S.-Israel relations.

Table of Contents

Preface — The Tragic Untold Story — Sorry, You Missed the Boat: Americans in Europe — Americans in the Warsaw Ghetto: The Diary of Mary Berg — The Meaning of Fear: Soldiers in Captivity — Bodies in the Mirror: POWs in Buchenwald — End of the Line for Spies—Mauthausen — Jewish POWs Are Singled Out — "We're Building the Pyramids Again"-Berga — The Death March and Liberation — The Meaning of Survival: Life After the Camps — The War Crimes Trials: Justice Half-Served — Recognition of the Victims

What People are Saying About This

Marvin Hier

Forgotten Victims brings home the tragedy of Americans caught in the Nazi Web. Mr. Bard's extensively researched book brings to light a hitherto unknown chapter of the Holocaust and gives much needed recognition to Americans forgotten by their own government.

Abraham H. Foxman

Mitchell Bard's compelling account of American G.I.'s and citizens who were herded into Nazi concentration camps and abandoned by their government exposes yet another outrage in the dark history of the Holocaust. Bard shatters the belief that American citizenship guarantees safe passage abroad. We are all indebted to him for his lust for truth and his tenacity in uncovering it.

Editorial Reviews

Based on original documents and interviews with survivors, this shocking study reveals that Washington officials knew that U.S. citizens were brutalized and murdered in Nazi concentration camps, and failed to take steps to save hundreds, perhaps thousands, of American lives. Bard describes the fate of American civilians trapped in Europe by the outbreak of WW II and the mistreatment of American military POWs, with special attention to Jewish GIs. He discloses the failure of American prosecutors in post-war crime trials to bring to justice perpetrators of crimes against U.S. civilians and captured military personnel. He explores the feasibility of reparations for surviving American victims of the Holocaust who were abandoned by their government. His harsh indictment concludes with a warning that Americans overseas should not count on protection from the U.S. government. Bard is executive director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. Photos. (June)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

American POWs and American civilians in Europe who were Jewish were not spared the treatment given to European Jews. This study investigates what the US government knew about such treatment of its citizens, when it knew it, what it did to help, and what it could have done to save hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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