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Axis Diplomats in American Custody - The Housing of Enemy Representatives and Their Exchange for American Counterparts, 1941-1945 (Paperback)
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Axis Diplomats in American Custody - The Housing of Enemy Representatives and Their Exchange for American Counterparts, 1941-1945 (Paperback)
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After Pearl Harbor, German, Italian and Japanese diplomats, along
with their staffs and families, were relocated to two lavish but
isolated resorts in Appalachia, where the State Department insisted
they be treated as distinguished guests. As the war progressed,
other Axis envoys were similarly detained. (The Japanese ambassador
to Germany was captured by U.S. soldiers in Europe and held in a
small hotel in rural Pennsylvania, while the War Department argued
for treating him as a war criminal and the local population decried
his luxurious accommodations.) Informants were recruited, attempts
at espionage and escape were foiled, diplomats complained and
squabbled endlessly, babies were born and townspeople made threats,
while newspapers published outlandish exposes of wild parties.
Based on government documents, the recollections of detainees and
hotel staff and contemporary newspaper accounts, this book is the
first to focus on the day-to-day lives of the nearly 1,000
detainees during their six-month confinement.
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