“Nazi” POWs in the Tar Heel State with Dr. Robert Billinger
TOPIC: “Nazi” POWs in the Tar Heel State, 1942-1946
SPEAKER: Dr. Robert D. Billinger, Jr., Emeritus Professor of History, Wingate University
This presentation demonstrates the unique and lasting influence on North Carolinians and their 10,000 German POW “guests” of the POW presence in the state during World War II.
His thesis is that enemies were found to be human.
Main Points include: Uniforms concealed diversity and memories of disunity among the POWs themselves and increasingly good relations with Americans were most lasting in the minds of America’s wartime guests and their hosts.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Robert D. Billinger, Jr., is member of the Monroe Rotary Club and an emeritus professor of History at Wingate University. A native of Bethlehem, PA, he graduated from Lehigh University and has graduate degrees from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Vienna and has written three books: Metternich’s South German Policy; Hitler’s Soldiers in the Sunshine State, and Nazi POWs in the Tar Heel State.
See robertbillingerbooks.com for background and bibliography.
