Remaking the Conquering Heroes: The Social and Geopolitical Impact of the Post-War American Occupation of Germany

by John Willoughby

Book Overview

Remaking the Conquering Heroes shows that American policymakers and Army officers had to confront and take control over a lawless US military in the aftermath of World War II. Money laundering, theft, racial antagonism between black and white GIs, unregulated sex, and high rates of venereal disease threatened to undermine American authority in occupied Germany as much as Soviet-American conflict. Willoughby argues that it was the creative, if disorganized,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312234007
• ISBN13: 9780312234003
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"