Defiant Diplomat George Platt Waller: American Consul in Nazi-Occupied Luxembourg, 1939?1941【電子書籍】

＜p＞Drafted while events were fresh in his mind in 1942?1943, Alabama-born American diplomat George Platt Waller’s memoir chronicles his war-time experience in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. In vivid prose, he recalls the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, the “Phony War,” the German invasion of May 10, 1940, and the Wehrmacht occupation. Intimately involved with the political and public life of this small democratic nation, Waller did not follow Grand Duchess Charlotte and her government into exile. Instead, he remained as long as he could to witness and champion the Luxembourg people, doing his best to rescue the flood of refugees seeking visas and asylum in the United States. Waller bitterly condemns the Nazi civilian administration, its oppressive racial laws, and its attempts to annex the country to Germany under the banner of Heim ins Reich.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From his pivotal position as dean of the diplomatic community, representative of the powerful United States; and trusted conf．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る