Forgotten Victims The Abandonment of Americans in Hitlers Camps

The outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 put tens of thousands of American civilians, especially Jews, in deadly peril, and yet the US State Department failed to help them. Consequently many suffered and some died. Later, when the United States joined the war against Hitler, many American and, in particular, Jewish American soldiers were captured and made the victims of Nazi mistreatment.;This book, which examines the fate of those Americans who fell into Nazi hands, argues that much of the evidence has been concealed by the US Government for half a century, in an attempt to avoid uncomfortable questions about its failure to offer safe havens to the Nazis' main targets: European Jews. The author presents documentary evidence that American officials knew that US civilians and soldiers were in danger, being mistreated, being placed in concentration camps, and even being murdered by the Nazis.