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082 00 $a940.54/7243/0943184$222
100 1 $aCohen, Roger.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91034331
245 10 $aSoldiers and slaves :$bAmerican POWs trapped by the Nazis' final gamble /$cRoger Cohen.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c2005.
300 $a303 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-283) and index.
520 1 $a"In February 1945, 350 American POWs captured earlier at the Battle of the Bulge or elsewhere in Europe were singled out by the Nazis because they were Jews or were thought to resemble Jews. They were transported in cattle cars to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany, and put to work as slave laborers, mining tunnels for a planned underground synthetic-fuel factory. This was the only incident of its kind during World War II." "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 seventy of them - perished. After the war, Berga was virtually forgotten, partly because it fell under Soviet domination and partly because America's Cold War priorities quickly changed, 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 ten 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."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aBerga (Concentration camp)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003053732
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, German.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xConcentration camps$zGermany$zBerga.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xConscript labor$zGermany$zBerga.
650 0 $aDeath marches$zGermany.
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109067
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zGermany$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109311
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