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Remaking the Conquering Heroes

The Social and Geopolitical Impact of the Post-War American Occupation of Germany

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  • © 2001

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  1. John Willoughby
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • John Willoughby
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Collapse of the World War II Army

    • John Willoughby
    Pages 7-28

  4. Primarily Interested in the German Fraulein

    • John Willoughby
    Pages 29-47

  5. The Corrosive Racial Divide

    • John Willoughby
    Pages 49-72

  6. From Colony to Junior Partner

    • John Willoughby
    Pages 73-97

  7. Between Boot Camp and Summer Camp

    • John Willoughby
    Pages 99-115

  8. The Beginnings of Gender and Racial Inclusion in the Cold War Military Family

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    Pages 117-135

  9. Remaking the Conquering Heroes: Extending American Power

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    Pages 137-151

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 153-187
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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, reaction of American officials in Germany that helped create both a foreign policy framework and more inclusive, familial military establishment capable of consolidating and extending US power during the Cold War.

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'...a uniquely interdisciplinary social history of the U.S. occupation army...' -

Journal of Military History

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JOHN WILLOUGHBY is Associate Professor of Economics at American University in Washington, D.C. Between 1998 and 2000, he served as the Senior Economics Professor at the new American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

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