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The fifteen murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America Cover Image Large Print Book

The fifteen [large print] : murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America / William Geroux.

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"On orders from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Department of War built hundreds of POW camps in the United States. Ardent Nazis in the camps attacked fellow Germans they deemed disloyal. Fifteen were sentenced to death for acts of murder. German authorities condemned fifteen American POWs to the same fate and proposed a trade: fifteen German lives for fifteen American lives. Journalist and author William Geroux shines a spotlight on this story of murder and high-stakes diplomacy, and on the fifteen American lives that hung in the balance"-- Back cover.

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  • ISBN: 9781420522495
  • ISBN: 1420522493
  • Physical Description: 681 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2025]

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General Note:
Published in 2025 by arrangement with Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group. a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-669).
Formatted Contents Note:
Cast of characters -- Author's note -- Prologue: A chair and a clothesline -- Part I: Life and death in the Fritz Ritz. From Afrika and the sea ; "I just didn't lose" ; Incoming ; The Fritz Ritz ; Little Germanies ; "No place for a priest" ; Secret verdicts -- Part II: In German hands. King Kong in a cage ; Wrong side of the river ; The bastards get lucky -- Part III: Wartime justice. "A Gestapo on the free soil of Kansas" ; The Rollkommando ; "Reeducating" the Nazis ; Blind drop ; "The Dachau treatment" ; Boiling point ; Bargaining chips ; "I could not do otherwise" ; "Nasty smiles" -- Part IV: Hostage diplomacy. A startling offer ; Pandemonium ; Hostage diplomacy ; "Unfavorably terminated" ; The elevator shaft ; "Everything comes out under the sun" ; Closing the ledger.

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Prisoner-of-war camps > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, American.
Nazis > History > 20th century.
Prisoners of war > Germany > History > 20th century.
Germans > United States > History > 20th century.
Murder > United States > History > 20th century.
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Statesville Main Library L.P. 940.547273 GER (Text) 33114018907378 Adult Large Print New Nonfiction Checked out 08/27/2026

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