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Icons of Insult: German and Italian Prisoners of War in African American Letters during World War II

Icons of Insult: German and Italian Prisoners of War in African American Letters during World War II

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Icons of Insult: German and Italian Prisoners of War in African American Letters during World War II

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Icons of Insult: German and Italian Prisoners of War in African American Letters during World War II

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Universitätsverlag C. Winter

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Amerikastudien, 2004-01, Vol.49 (4), p.539-562

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English

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Universitätsverlag C. Winter

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More than 371,000 German and 51,000 Italian prisoners of war were interned in the United States between 1942 and 1946. African American soldiers claimed that these men enjoyed better treatment and more rights than they did. This assertion has become a staple of publications on the American home front and is widely accepted to the present day. The a...

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Icons of Insult: German and Italian Prisoners of War in African American Letters during World War II

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TN_cdi_jstor_primary_41158095

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_jstor_primary_41158095

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0340-2827

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