LEADER 04344nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910956678903321 005 20251116215102.0 010 $a0-8232-4796-1 010 $a1-4237-9647-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000464955 035 $a(EBL)3239701 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000175799 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11177187 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000175799 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10203416 035 $a(PQKB)11408872 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239701 035 $a(OCoLC)71010593 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse15021 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239701 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10586759 035 $a(OCoLC)923763482 035 $a(BIP)12582933 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000464955 100 $a20050614d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a"I must be a part of this war" $ea German American's fight against Hitler and Nazism /$fPatricia Kollander ; with John O'Sullivan 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 254 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) $cillustrations 225 1 $aWorld War II : the global, human, and ethical dimension,$x1541-0293 ;$vno. 8 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8232-2528-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-248) and index. 327 $a1. From patriot to outcast : 1909-1937 -- 2. How to become an American : 1937-1942 -- 3. A German in the U.S. Army : 1943-1944 -- 4. Into the abyss : 1944-1945 -- 5. The hunt for war criminals : 1945-1946 -- 6. From world war to cold war -- 7. The Goebbels diaries. 330 $aKurt Frank Korf's story is one of the most unusual to come out of World War II. Although German-Americans were America's largest ethnic group, and German-Americans-- including thousands of native-born Germans-- fought bravely in all theaters, there are few full first-person accounts by German-Americans of their experiences during the 1930s and 1940s. Drawing on his correspondence and on oral histories and interviews withKorf, Patricia Kollander paints a fascinating portrait of a privileged young man forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1937 because the infamous Nuremburg Laws had relegated him to the status of ocirc; second-degree mixed breedouml; (Korf had one Jewish grandparent). Settling in New York City, Korf became an FBI informant, watching pro-Nazi leaders like Fritz Kuhn and the German-American Bund as they moved among the city's large German immigrant community. Soon after, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving in Germany as an intelligence officer during the Battle of the Bulge, and as a prisoner of war camp administrator. After the war, Korf stayed on as a U.S. government attorney in Berlin and Munich, working to hunt down war criminals, and lent his expertise in the effort to determine the authenticity of Joseph Goebbels's diaries. Kurt Frank Korf died in 2000. Kollander not only draws a detailed portrait of this unique figure; she alsoprovides a rich context for exploring responses to Nazism in Germany, theGerman-American position before and during the war, the community's later response to Nazism and its crimes, and the broader issues of ethnicity, religion, political ideology, and patriotism in 20th-century America. 410 0$aWorld War II--the global, human, and ethical dimension ;$v8. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xParticipation, German American 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xMilitary intelligence$zUnited States 606 $aGerman Americans$xSocial conditions$y20th century 606 $aGerman American soldiers$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xParticipation, German American. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xMilitary intelligence 615 0$aGerman Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aGerman American soldiers 676 $a940.54/8673/092 676 $aB 700 $aKollander$b Patricia$01867942 701 $aO'Sullivan$b John$f1939-$01867943 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956678903321 996 $a"I must be a part of this war"$94475710 997 $aUNINA