The fifteen : murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America
(2025)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
940.547273/GEROUX,W

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Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Crown, [2025]
©2025
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

xxi, 374 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780593594254, 0593594258 :, 0593594258, 9780593594254
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Prologue : A Chair and a Clothesline -- Part I : Life and Death in the Fritz Ritz. From Afrika and the Sea -- "I Just Didn't Lose" -- Incoming -- The Fritz Ritz -- Little Germanies -- "No Place for a Priest" -- Secret Verdicts -- Part II : In German Hands. King Kong in a Cage -- Wrong Side of the River -- The Bastards Get Lucky -- Part III : Wartime Justice. "A Gestapo on the Free Soil of Kansas" -- The Rollkommando -- "Reeducating" the Nazis -- Blind Drop -- "The Dachau Treatment" -- Boiling Point -- Bargaining Chips -- "I Could Not Do Otherwise" -- "Nasty Smiles" -- Part IV : Hostage Diplomacy. A Startling Offer -- Pandemonium -- Hostage Diplomacy -- "Unfavorably Terminated" -- The Elevator Shaft -- "Everything Comes Out Under the Sun" -- Closing the Ledger

The true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown

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