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Poisoned Hope : Mias, Mythmaking, And Trauma In Defeated Nations, Patrick Gallagher
Poisoned Hope : Mias, Mythmaking, And Trauma In Defeated Nations, Patrick Gallagher
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation examines a postwar phenomenon that it describes as the secret camp myth. That myth arises from uncertainty about the fates of POWs and MIAs, and its advocates argue that the MIAs must survive in secret captivity after the war. This dissertation examines two historical examples of this phenomenon: West Germany following World War II, and the US after the Vietnam War. These two examples have been examined individually, but have not been compared extensively, and prior historiography has only examined each within the context of German and American histories of those wars. This dissertation argues that both cases …
The Creation Of An American Collective Memory Of The First World War : 1917 -- 1941, Kimberly Jean Lamay
The Creation Of An American Collective Memory Of The First World War : 1917 -- 1941, Kimberly Jean Lamay
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
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