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| Experiment
in Occupation
Witness to the Turnabout, Anti-Nazi War to Cold
War 1944-1946
By
Arthur D. Kahn
1/7/2004 | 312 pgs | 6 x 9
History, American Politics
Hardback: $48.00 SH
ISBN-10: 0-271-02314-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-271-02314-4 |
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a participant in many of the events he writes about in Experiment
in Occupation, Arthur Kahn offers a richly detailed account of
the process by which the fight against Nazism came to be transformed
into the Cold War. His story reveals how those in the Military Government
of Germany who were dedicated to carrying out the war aims promulgated
by Roosevelt and Eisenhower for a thorough democratization of Germany
were ultimately defeated in their confrontation with powerful elements
in the Military Government and in Washington who were more intent
upon launching a preemptive war against the Soviet Union than upon
the eradication of Nazism and German militarism. A
twenty-three-year-old OSS operative, Arthur Kahn was assigned
after D-Day to a psychological
warfare unit, where at first he supervised prisoner-of-war interrogations
and then served as an editor of intelligence. Instructed to respond
to requests from Supreme Headquarters, he drafted proposals for
psychological warfare approaches to critical situations at the
front
only to discover that a SHAEF directive banned calls to the Germans
to revolt. Subsequently Kahn served in liaison with the Soviets
and during the Battle of the Bulge at Montgomery’s British
headquarters. For several months before and after VE Day he traveled
through the American Zone as an intelligence investigator and
wrote
a report that led to the dismissal of General George S. Patton
as Military Governor of Bavaria. Appointed Chief Editor of Intelligence
of the Information Control Division, he produced the most influential
intelligence weekly in the American Zone.
Kahn’s
portrayal of events in postwar Germany provides warnings for
current
and future American experiments in foreign occupation. |
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Contents
Preface
Introduction: An OSS Recruit Despite Himself
Abbreviations
Part I: Why We Fight!
1 Soviet Partisans and Soviet Suspicions (Summer 1944)
2 “We Do Not Call Upon the Germans to Revolt” (Fall 1944)
3 The Capture-Liberation of Metz
4 The Battle of the Bulge (Winter 1944–1945)
5 Mainz: Investigating a Pre–VE Day Military Government (Spring
1945)
6 Interrogating Victims of Nazism and Nazis
7 Wuerzburg: Another Military Government Experience
8 “What We Russians Like to Consider as a Typical American!”
Part II: Policy Clash in Military Government
9 “Crack Patton’s Military Government Wide Open!” (Summer
1945)
10 “If Only You Americans Weren’t Here . . . !”
11 Patton’s Last Stand
12 Elections, the American Cure-All (Fall 1945)
13 Rehearsal for McCarthyism
Part III: Triumph of the Cold Warriors
14 A Military Government in Crisis (Winter 1945-1946)
15 Elections: The American Panacea II
16 Democracy, American Zone Style!
17 Summing Up and the Collective Guilt Issue (Spring 1946)
18 Demoralized GIs
Epilogue: 1946–1947
Appendices
Index |
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Arthur
Kahn, a former distinguished professor of Classics at universities
in the U.S. and Canada, has written seven previous books, including
The Education of Julius Caesar (1986), a History Book Club
Selection. |
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