Binding up the wounds - Info and Reading Options
an American soldier in occupied Germany, 1945-1946
By Leon C. Standifer
"Binding up the wounds" was published by Louisiana State University Press in 1997 - Baton Rouge, it has 209 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Binding up the wounds” Metadata:
- Title: Binding up the wounds
- Author: Leon C. Standifer
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 209
- Publisher: ➤ Louisiana State University Press
- Publish Date: 1997
- Publish Location: Baton Rouge
“Binding up the wounds” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Soldiers - Biography - Reconstruction (1939-1951) - Military government - Bezettingen - Historical - Tweede Wereldoorlog - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - HISTORY - Germany, history, 1945-1990 - Americans, foreign countries
- People: Leon Standifer
- Places: United States - Germany - Biography
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xvii, 209 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL999370M - OL3335242W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 35262467
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 96038212
- ISBN-10: 0807120944
- All ISBNs: 0807120944
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Standifer, who served in the 94th Infantry Division in western Germany, the Sudetenland, and Bavaria in the first year of occupation, chronicles that unique and chaotic time from the viewpoint of a typical GI. Germany was an epic landscape of human need, and cities lay in ruins. But the war was over, light and laughter were once again possible, and, as Standifer recalls, "we had a ball during that first year." Among the things he experienced or witnessed were. Black-market operations large and small (American cigarettes served as a universal currency, and a few ounces of mess-hall grease or used coffee grounds were valuable commodities); the spectacle of gung-ho officers attempting to turn combat troops into spit-and-polish paraders; the exploitative games played between American soldiers and German women; a gut-wrenching visit to a displaced persons camp; and the difficulties involved in guarding captured soldiers who were no. Longer the enemy. Perhaps most revealing, and often surprising, are the attitudes Standifer discovered among ordinary Germans toward the war, the Nazis, the "Hitler times" in general - not only during the occupation, but also decades later when he revisited Germany and spoke with elderly survivors of those times. For there are really two voices telling the tale of Binding Up the Wounds. One is that of the combat-hardened but otherwise naive twenty-year-old who lived the. Experiences. The other is that of the author as retired college professor looking back over half a century and puzzling out what those experiences meant for himself, for America, and for human-kind.
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