The Washington Post, July 24th, 2005
SOLDIERS AND SLAVES American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble By Roger Cohen Knopf. 303 pp. $25.95 The question has often been asked -- not least by some Allied commanders back in 1945 -- whether it mattered that the final advance across northwestern Europe to crush Nazism was so sluggish. In fact, it mattered profoundly to some 8 million of Hitler's captives, who died by the thousands each day until deliverance came. Slave labor had become a central feature of the Nazi industrial machine, as it was of the Soviet one. To the very end of World War II, vast numbers of men and women wer...
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