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A Critical History of the American Red Cross, 1882-1945
The End of Noble Humanitarianism
ISBN: 9780773467064
Format: Hardback
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
This revisionist perspective on the history of the Red Cross reflects its transformation from its genesis to become the government's humanitarian agency, and the subsequent effect this change may have had on American prisoners of war held captive in Germany in World War II. More
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It was assumed by many, including the Red Cross, that the Geneva Treaty was being honored, that food parcels were reaching the starving Allied prisoners, and that the Red Cross was relaying accurate information to the homefront concerning the welfare of captive soldiers. Shealy's work provides data from declassified military documents and Red Cross documents deeded to the National Archives and the library of Congress. Coupled with mainstream sources, her research offers a revisionist perspective of the American Red Cross era from 1882 to 1945. Additionally, the Red Cross, usually above reproach, turned the mirror initself with candid monographs written post-WWII to 1950. These discourse, documents and letters reveal the agency's struggle to reconcile itself with policy not always in step with its recipients.
