Remaking the Conquering Heroes

Remaking the Conquering Heroes shows that American policymakers and Army officers had to confront and take control over a lawless US military in the aftermath of World War II. Money laundering, theft, racial antagonism between black and white GIs, unregulated sex, and high rates of venereal disease threatened to undermine American authority in occupied Germany as much as Soviet-American conflict. Willoughby argues that it was the creative, if disorganized, reaction of American officials in Germany that helped create both a foreign policy framework and more inclusive, familial military establishment capable of consolidating and extending US power during the Cold War.

'...a uniquely interdisciplinary social history of the U.S. occupation army...' -

Journal of Military History

Autorentext
JOHN WILLOUGHBY is Associate Professor of Economics at American University in Washington, D.C. Between 1998 and 2000, he served as the Senior Economics Professor at the new American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

Inhalt
Introduction: The Historical Significance of the Rise of American Martial Tourism in Germany The Collapse of the World War II Army 'Primarily Invested in the German Fraulein' The Corrosive Racial Divide From Colony to Junior Partner Between Boot Camp and Summer Camp The Beginnings of Gender and Racial Inclusion in the Cold War Military Family Remaking the Conquering Heroes: Extending American Power