Given Up For Dead: American GI's in the Nazi Concentration Camp at Berga (2005) By Flint Whitlock
 
During World War II, prisoners of war were required by the Geneva Convention of 1929 to be treated to established rules of warfare. For the most part, the Nazis followed the rules. But in late 1944, when a large number of Americans were taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge and elsewhere, their captors had different plans for those Americans who were Jewish or from some other “undesirable” ethnic or religious group. Instead of being incarcerated in regular POW camps, several hundred were separated from their fellow captives and sent to the brutal slave-labor camp at Berga-an-der-Elster in southeastern Germany.
 
Until now, the story of what these men endured has been largely untold. Given Up for Dead chronicles the experience of Americans at Berga. Here is an incredible tale of survival against overwhelming odds, inhuman living and working conditions, and the imminent prospect of annihilation during a 300-kilometer death march in the last few weeks of the war designed to keep them out of the hands of the approaching, liberating Allies. That these men willed themselves to stay alive is an amazing testimony to the resiliency of the human spirit.
 
Using gripping first-person accounts and definitive factual narration that was hidden for so many years (the soldiers were ordered never to speak of their treatment at Berga for reasons that are still unclear), Given Up for Dead exposes a little-known chapter in the history of World War II.
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
251 pages
In Good Condition