Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitlers Camps

by Mitchell G. Bard

Book Overview

One common explanation for the world's failure to prevent the Holocaust is that the information about the Nazi extermination program seemed too incredible to believe. Fifty years later, Americans may now also find it difficult to believe that their fellow citizens were among the twelve million people murdered by the Nazis, abandoned to this fate by their own government.The outbreak of war in Europe put tens of thousands of American civilians, especially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081332193X
• ISBN13: 9780813321936
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a shame

Shame on the Germans, shame on the American government. This sad tale recounts in vivid terms the horrors of Germany. Bard relates the horrors of the holocaust with the convincing detail and exhaustive research that ranks with the best of any account of that. The fact that the victims in this case were all Americans trapped in German territory makes the account somehow more personal. The sadness of American government callousness about these victims is enormous. The fact that greater effort was not made to rescue citizens in the early days is a result of the anti immigration atmosphere of the country. The fact that adequate acknowledgement and compensations was not made to Americans who spent time in concentration and slave camps is tragic and an injustice that Mr. Bard should be commended for exposing. Mr Bard writes in clear and interesting style, carefully researches his material, and effectively martials his arguments, highly recomended

Shocking the way our father's were treated as POW's!

This book tells the actual way that our soldiers were treated by the German army. My father was held at Berga as a POW. I never thought that the way he behaved towards me and our family was due to the war but now I haave changed my mind. Since his death I have found out through this wonderful book the reasons he hated Rooservelt, Red Cross and why he had a distrust of the dept of vetrans, and the vetrans hospital. I wish that I could get a copy of this book so that my children and grandchildren could know what a high cost their Grandfather paid for thier freedom. The book's only prombem was that it foused only on the Jewish point of view. My Father like many others was non-Jewish and held there too. The rest of the citizens need to know about teir treatment too.