Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn Terror Flyers , military historian Kevin Hall (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) offers a well researched and detailed study of incidents of Lynchjustiz (lynch justice) against US airmen in Nazi Germany during World War II. Earlier literature long ago identified the violence against some US Air Corps crew members who were forced to bail out over Germany. Hall uses several new sources to prove the number of such cases was much larger than previously thought, with a focus on the culpability of both civilians and the National Socialist regime
* Michigan War Studies Review *
Terror Flyers brings to light a less-known history and integrates a psycho-social analysis of Germany's Nazis, both civilian and official, and the dastardly punishment they meted out to several downed Allied flyers by ignoring their injuries, physically assaulting them, and then simply killing them.
-- Sheldon Goldberg * H-TGS *
Table of ContentsList 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
