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Luftgangster over Germany: The Lynching of American Airmen in the Shadow of the Air War
'Luftgangster' über Deutschland: Lynchjustiz gegen amerikanische Flieger im Schatten des Luftkrieges
This study analyzes the Lynchjustiz committed against American airmen in Germany during World War II. Largely overlooked by historians, the extent of violence against flyers is drastically underestimated, hindered by the complex historical memory of the Allied air war, the arduous denazification process, and the looming Cold War of the postwar era. While the precise number of Allied flyers that ex…
Creator
- Hall, Kevin T.
Subject
- History
- General History
- US citizen
- arbitrary law
- air force
- World War II
- prisoner of war
- historical analysis
- German Reich
- war crime
- Luftwaffe
- World War II
- History
Type of item
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Creator
- Hall, Kevin T.
Subject
- History
- General History
- US citizen
- arbitrary law
- air force
- World War II
- prisoner of war
- historical analysis
- German Reich
- war crime
- Luftwaffe
- World War II
- History
Type of item
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
Creation date
- 2018
- 2018
Places
- Deutschland
- Germany
Provenance
- Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Source
- Historical Social Research, 43(2)
Identifier
- oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/57690
- 0172-6404
- https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/57690
- urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57690-3
- https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.2.277-312
- http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/57690/ssoar-hsr-2018-2-hall-Luftgangster_over_Germany_The_Lynching.pdf?sequence=1
- http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/337MREKY4AKTKXHEQYMVLQJVH6WWLFSU
Extent
- Seite(n): 277-312
Format
- application/pdf
Language
- eng
- eng
Year
- 2018
Providing country
- Germany
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-01-17T10:02:31.686Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-01-17T10:02:31.686Z