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Informationen zum Autor Kevin T Hall is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr-Universtiät Bochum, Germany. He was a Fulbright grantee in Cologne in 2013-2014 and obtained his PhD from Central Michigan University in 2018. In 2019, he was a postdoctoral research historian at the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA) in Honolulu, where he assisted the agency in accounting for US servicemen missing from past conflicts. Klappentext Terror Flyers is a carefully researched new account of a little-known area of WWII History. It examines the violent attacks and lynchings of Jewish and African American airman in WWII. It counters a commonly held belief that "average Germans" didn't participate in war crimes against Allied soldiers generally, and airmen specifically Terror Flyers narrative, and readable style should appeal to armchair historians and scholars alike. Terrors Flyers details how Nazi propaganda towards Black airmen was inspired by US publications. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Charts List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Uninvited Guests: Experiences Of Downed Airmen 2. American "Terror Flyers" In German Propagandaiii 3. The History And Escalation Of Lynchjustiz In Germany 4. Analysis Of The Flyer Trials 5. Lynchjustiz Narratives 6. Examining The Motives Of Lynchjustiz Conclusion Appendix A-Lynchjustiz Documents Appendix B-Newspaper Examples Appendix C-Index Of Flyer Trials Appendix D-Unsolved Cases Appendix E-List Of Known Airmen Held At St. Giles Prison Appendix F-List of Known Airmen held in Prisons Bibliography Index
