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Soldiers and Slaves
- American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
- ナレーター: Sam Tsoutsouvas
- 再生時間: 6 時間 17 分
- カテゴリー: 政治学・社会科学, 政治・政府
批評家のレビュー
"It's Cohen's level of detail that makes this journalistic history come alive." (Publishers Weekly)
あらすじ・解説
Starved and brutalized, the GIs were denied their rights as prisoners of war, their ordeal culminating in a death march that was halted by liberation near the Czech border. Twenty percent of these soldiers, more than 70 of them, perished. After the war, Berga was virtually forgotten, and the experiences of these Americans were buried.
Now, for the first time, their story is told in all its blistering detail. This is the story of hell in a small place over a period of nine weeks, at a time when Hitler's Reich was crumbling but its killing machine still churned. It is a tale of madness and heroism, and of the failure to deliver justice for what the Nazis did to these Americans.
Roger Cohen uncovers exactly why the U.S. government did not aggressively prosecute the commandants of Berga, why there was no particular recognition for the POWs and their harsh treatment in the postwar years, and why it took decades for them to receive proper compensation.
Soldiers and Slaves is an intimate, intensely dramatic story of war and of a largely forgotten chapter of the Holocaust.
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- 2005/05/31
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- Dan
- 2005/06/12
Well Hidden Revisionism
The author has a great writing style and sheds light on many of the less known tragedies of World War II. The American POWs caught up in the 'final solution' reflects the need for America to be ever vigilant against despotism. What I did NOT like about this book is the subtle, but very real revisionist history that the author portrays. At best, he tries to sell that the American government covered up the tragedy, at worse, colluding with the enemy. This part of the book is absolutely absurd and is clearly done to intentionally discredit the American government. Another conspiracy writer...