"Hitler's Generals in America: Nazi POWs and Allied Military Intelligence"

This talk will compare the behavior and perspectives of two German general officers, Ludwig Cruwell and Bernard-Hermann Ramcke, both held as prisoners of war during the Second World War by first Britain and then the United States. These two men exemplify the pitfalls of attempting to assess the political loyalties of prisoners of war. Both were believed to be hardcore Nazis while in captivity, yet took very different paths in the immediate postwar era.

Derek R. Mallett earned a Ph.D. in U.S. military and diplomatic history from Texas A&M University in 2009. He served as an assistant professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College from 2010-2011. Mallett is now a World War II historian for the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

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Center for Biographical Research, Mānoa Campus

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(808) 956-3774, biograph@hawaii.edu

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