Logistics Matters and the U.S. Army in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949
This book examines the US Army’s presence in Germany after the Nazi regime’s capitulation in May 1945. This presence required the pursuit of two stated missions: to secure German borders, and to establish an occupation government within the assigned US zo
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AND THE U.S. ARMY IN
OCCUPIED GERMANY, 1945–1949
LEE KRUGER
Logistics Matters and the U.S. Army in Occupied Germany, 1945–1949
Lee Kruger
Logistics Matters and the U.S. Army in Occupied Germany, 1945–1949
Lee Kruger Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-38835-9 ISBN 978-3-319-38836-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-38836-6
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For Suse and Jürgen Your stories are now History! My heartfelt thank you to you both for your friendship and support
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish to acknowledge the two people who really lived almost daily with my project – one remains in Germany, the other here in the USA. Suse Pfeiffer, a Württemberger, is 90 now but she was 20 at the end of the war, and lived in the US Zone. The other person – four years old at the beginning of the occupation – also lived within the US Zone. Suse, not only provided me with her own experiences, but introduced me to a number of others from her age group, who brought life to the subject. The other, my husband, Jürgen, not only raised my often-sagging spirits, but also provided focus and perspective and, more often than not, cleared a path through the German archival system. I cannot over-emphasize the role these two played in my completion of this narrative. As important as their support has been to me personally, however, I could not have completed this project without a mountain (a nice logistics term) of assistance and support from professional sources. First, my dissertation committee deserves the academic equivalent of a military Legion of Merit for putting u
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