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The fifteen : murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America Cover Image Book

The fifteen : murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America / William Geroux.

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Murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi Prisoners of War in America (other title)
Geroux, William, (author.).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593594254
  • ISBN: 0593594258
  • Physical Description: xxi, 374 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown, [2025]

Content descriptions

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.

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Subject: Prisoner-of-war camps > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, American.
Prisoners of war > Germany > History > 20th century.
Germans > United States > History > 20th century.
Murder > United States > History > 20th century.
Genre: True crime stories.

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