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Terror Flyers

The Lynching of American Airmen in Nazi Germany

Kevin T Hall (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2021
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-05015-1 (ISBN)

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Terror Flyers examines the "lynch justice" (Lynchjustiz) committed against American airmen in Nazi Germany during World War II. Using engaging first-person accounts of downed pilots, as well as previously unused primary sources, Terror Flyers challenges the notion that such lynchings were exclusively the domain of Nazi party officials and soldiers. New evidence reveals ordinary German people executed Lynchjustiz as well.

Initially occurring as a spontaneous reaction to the devastation of the Allied air campaign against the cities of the Third Reich, Lynchjustiz offered the Nazi regime a unique propaganda opportunity to harness the outrage of the German population. Fueled by inspiration from America's own history of the lynching of African Americans, Nazi propaganda exploited the very same imagery found in US publications to escalate the anger of the German people.

Drawing heavily on the accounts of the downed airmen themselves, testimonies from the "flyer trials" held in Dachau during 1945–48, and rarely seen Nazi propaganda, Terror Flyers offers a new narrative of this previously overlooked aspect of the Allied campaign in Europe and suggests that at least 3,000 cases of lynch justice likely occurred between 1943 and 1945.

Kevin T Hall is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr-Universtiät Bochum, Germany. He was a Fulbright grantee in Cologne in 2013–2014 and obtained his PhD from Central Michigan University in 2018. In 2019, he was a postdoctoral research historian at the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA) in Honolulu, where he assisted the agency in accounting for US servicemen missing from past conflicts.

List of Figures
List of Charts
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
1. Uninvited Guests: Experiences Of Downed Airmen
2. American "Terror Flyers" In German Propagandaiii
3. The History And Escalation Of Lynchjustiz In Germany
4. Analysis Of The Flyer Trials
5. Lynchjustiz Narratives
6. Examining The Motives Of Lynchjustiz
Conclusion

Appendix A—Lynchjustiz Documents
Appendix B—Newspaper Examples
Appendix C—Index Of Flyer Trials
Appendix D—Unsolved Cases
Appendix E—List Of Known Airmen Held At St. Giles Prison
Appendix F—List of Known Airmen held in Prisons

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	117 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	703 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-253-05015-4 / 0253050154
ISBN-13	978-0-253-05015-1 / 9780253050151
Zustand	Neuware