I Must be a Part of this War : A German American's Fight against Hitler and Nazism.
Settling in New York City, Korf became an FBI informant, watching pro-Nazi leaders like Fritz Kuhn and the German-American Bund as they moved among the cityGs large German immigrant community. Soon after, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving in Germany as an intelligence officer during the Battle o...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | O'Sullivan, John. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | US : Fordham University Press, 2005. |
| Series: | World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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| Summary: | Settling in New York City, Korf became an FBI informant, watching pro-Nazi leaders like Fritz Kuhn and the German-American Bund as they moved among the cityGs large German immigrant community. Soon after, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving in Germany as an intelligence officer during the Battle of the Bulge, and as a prisoner of war camp administrator. Kurt Frank KorfGs story is one of the most unusual to come out of World War II. Although German-Americans were AmericaGs largest ethnic group, and German-AmericansGincluding thousands of native-born GermansGfought bravely in all theaters, there are few full first-person accounts by German- Americans of their experiences during the 1930s and 1940s. Drawing on his correspondence and on oral histories and interviews with Korf, Patricia Kollander paints a fascinating portrait of a privileged young man forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1937 because the infamous Nuremburg Laws had relegated him to the status of Gsecond-degree mixed breedG (Korf had one Jewish grandparent). |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (284 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780823247967 |