Know Your Enemy - The American Debate on Nazism, 1933-1945

This book analyses the intellectual side of the American war effort against Nazi Germany, showing how conflicting interpretations of 'the German problem' shaped American warfare and postwar planning.

List of contents

Prologue: Thomas Wolfe and the Third Reich; Introduction: defining the German problem; Part I. Prelude to War: 1. Memories of World War One: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Germany; 2. News from the new Germany: conflicting interpretations, contested meaning, 1933-40; 3. The prospect of war, 1933-41; Part II. Mobilizing the American Home Front: 4. The principal battleground of this war is American opinion, 1941/42; 5. OWI: explaining Nazism to the American people is no easy assignment; 6. Why we fight: the nature of the enemy seen differently; Part III. The Public Debate on Germany, 1942-5: 7. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Germans and Nazis; 8. The German disease and Nazism as gangsterism; 9. German peculiarities versus human universality: Vansittartism; Part IV. The Governmental Debate on Postwar Plans, 1942-5: 10. What do you do with people like that?; 11. How to prevent World War III; 12. The enemy in defeat: German-American encounters at zero hour; Conclusion.

About the author

Michaela Hoenicke Moore is Professor of History at the University of Iowa. She has taught at the Kennedy Institute of the Free University in Berlin, at the University of North Carolina, and at York University in Toronto and worked as a Senior Fellow in US Foreign Policy at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. She is the co-editor (with Bernard May) of The Uncertain Superpower: Domestic Dimensions of US Foreign Policy after the Cold War, and her articles have appeared in journals including Diplomatic History and Amerikastudien.

Summary

Analyses the intellectual side of the American war effort against Nazi Germany, showing how conflicting interpretations of 'the German problem' shaped American warfare and postwar planning.

Product details

• Authors: Michaela Hoenicke Moore, Michaela Hoenicke-Moore, Michaela Hoenicke Moore
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.2014
• EAN: 9781107655140
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65514-0
• No. of pages: 410
• Series: Publications of the German His; Publications of the German Historical Institute
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Germany, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History of the Americas, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater