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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Jones, Calvin N. |
| Title, Analytic | Views of America and Views of Germany in German POW Newspapers of World War II |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 1982 |
| Volume ID | 17 |
| Location in Work | 63-70 |
| Abstract | To Alfred Andersch, the life of a POW was such a positive improvement over that of the front-line soldier that he called the camp a 'golden cage.' Since America's wartime enemy soon became a close ally, it is important to investigate the role of the prisoners' American experience in modifying their opinions about the two countries. The experience was obviously very important in the political and literary development of writers like Andersch and Hans Werner Richert, for it led directly to their influential postwar intellectual journal Der Ruf and to Group 47, the writers' circle which grew out of it, but it was probably no less important for thousands of prisoners who were to play less significant roles. . . .[I]t is likely that one of the chief sources of information about the United States and best indicators of prisoner sentiment were the newspapers published in the German language by the prisoners themselves. These camp newspapers were not all of one type, however, and the amount of information and the outlook taken toward the United States and Germany varied; it would therefore be useful to compare the pictures of the two countries conveyed by two quite different newspapers, Der Zaungast and Der Ruf. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Newspapers/ World War, 1939-1945/ Prisoners of war/ |