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Article: Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in World War II
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- Journal of Third World Studies
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- April 1, 2005
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Friedman, Max Paul., Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 359 pp.
In the years leading up to the outbreak of World War II and well into the war itself, the United States pursued German nationals and descendents throughout Latin America with an unparalleled vengeance. According to Florida State University historian, Max Paul Friedman, the ultimate objective was not just the removal of a perceived Nazi threat from the hemisphere, but also the elimination of German economic interests so that U.S. businesses could fill the vacuum. To support his stinging indictment of U.S. wartime ...