LEADER 05929nam 2200841 a 450 001 9910780050003321 005 20230207222936.0 010 $a1-282-75218-9 010 $a9786612752186 010 $a1-4008-2162-2 010 $a1-4008-1314-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821624 035 $a(CKB)111056486503538 035 $a(EBL)617283 035 $a(OCoLC)705526985 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000108831 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11114308 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000108831 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10045291 035 $a(PQKB)11530534 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617283 035 $a(OCoLC)51533666 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36026 035 $a(DE-B1597)446121 035 $a(OCoLC)979905003 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821624 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617283 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035771 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275218 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486503538 100 $a19940607d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe barbed-wire college$b[electronic resource] $ereeducating German POW's in the United States during World War II /$fRon Robin 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Pres$dc1995 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 225 0 $aThe William G. Bowen Series ;$v22 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-03700-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [189]-211) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$tPART ONE: The Mobilization of Liberal Arts --$tCHAPTER ONE. The Genesis of Reeducation --$tCHAPTER TWO. The POW Camp and the Total Institution --$tCHAPTER THREE. Professors into Propagandists --$tCHAPTER FOUR. The Idea Factory and Its Intellectual Laborers --$tPART TWO: Reeducation and High Culture --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Der Ruf: Inner Emigration, Collective Guilt, and the POW --$tCHAPTER SIX. Literature: The Battle of the Books --$tCHAPTER SEVEN. Film: Mass Culture and Reeducation --$tPART THREE: The Prison Academy --$tCHAPTER EIGHT. Politics and Scholarship: The Reeducation College --$tCHAPTER NINE. The Democracy Seminars: Preparation for "One World" --$tCHAPTER TEN. Variations on the Theme of Reeducation --$tCHAPTER ELEVEN. Reeducation and the Decline of the American Dons --$tNotes --$tNote on the Sources --$tIndex 330 $aFrom Stalag 17 to The Manchurian Candidate, the American media have long been fascinated with stories of American prisoners of war. But few Americans are aware that enemy prisoners of war were incarcerated on our own soil during World War II. In The Barbed-Wire College Ron Robin tells the extraordinary story of the 380,000 German prisoners who filled camps from Rhode Island to Wisconsin, Missouri to New Jersey. Using personal narratives, camp newspapers, and military records, Robin re-creates in arresting detail the attempts of prison officials to mold the daily lives and minds of their prisoners. From 1943 onward, and in spite of the Geneva Convention, prisoners were subjected to an ambitious reeducation program designed to turn them into American-style democrats. Under the direction of the Pentagon, liberal arts professors entered over 500 camps nationwide. Deaf to the advice of their professional rivals, the behavioral scientists, these instructors pushed through a program of arts and humanities that stressed only the positive aspects of American society. Aided by German POW collaborators, American educators censored popular books and films in order to promote democratic humanism and downplay class and race issues, materialism, and wartime heroics. Red-baiting Pentagon officials added their contribution to the program, as well; by the war's end, the curriculum was more concerned with combating the appeals of communism than with eradicating the evils of National Socialism. The reeducation officials neglected to account for one factor: an entrenched German military subculture in the camps, complete with a rigid chain of command and a propensity for murdering "traitors." The result of their neglect was utter failure for the reeducation program. 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