Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database
SOLDIERS AND SLAVES : AMERICAN POWS TRAPPED BY THE NAZIS' FINAL GAMBLE / Roger Cohen. (ID: 32164)
Authorship or Source:
Cohen, Roger.
Year:
2005
Title or Main Description:
SOLDIERS AND SLAVES : AMERICAN POWS TRAPPED BY THE NAZIS' FINAL GAMBLE / Roger Cohen.
Place Published or Holding Institution:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf
Description:
- 303 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- Approx. 350 Names.
Edition:
1st ed.
Type of Work:
Book
ISBN or ISSN:
037541410X
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
USHMM Library: D805.5.B46 C63 2005.
Keywords:
- Berga (Concentration camp) --Registers.
- Jewish soldiers --United States --Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Prisoners and prisons, German --Germany --Berga --Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Concentration camps --Germany --Berga --Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Conscript labor --Germany --Berga --Registers.
- Death marches --Germany.
- Prisoners of war --United States --Biography.
- Prisoners of war --Germany --Biography.
- Berga am Elster (Germany) --Registers of dead.
- Schwalbe V (Concentration camp) --Registers.
Abstract:
Includes a list of 350 American soldiers (most captured during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge) held in the Berga am Elster concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald, which also had the code name "Schwalbe V." Many of those listed perished from malnutrition, disease and maltreatment. These American prisoners of war were mostly Jews or "suspected Jews," persons that the Germans had decided appeared to be Jewish, who had been specially singled out and taken from other prisoner of war camps, such as Stalag IX-B located at Bad Orb.
Language and Other Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-283) and index.
- Although not based on this book, interviews with many former prisoners of Berga listed at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/berga/about_credits.html can be seen in the film "Berga: Soldiers of Another War" (Educational Broadcasting, c2003.)
