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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| Max Paul Friedman. Nazis and Good Neighbors: The United States Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 359. $30.00.
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| In this book, Max Paul Friedman makes a significant contribution to twentieth-century history. Based on prodigious research conducted on three continents, it provides a richly textured case study of a failed diplomatic and security program. The book is persuasively argued, lucidly written, and seasoned with black humor. Friedman's timely study merits an audience not only of historians and their students but also of policy makers and informed citizens. |
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Friedman explores the compelling story of the deportation of over 4,000 Germans from Latin America and their subsequent internment in the United States during World War II. In conjunction with the deportation program, Washington launched a systematic campaign of economic warfare against German business interests in the region. These measures alienated Latin American states by underscoring the United States's readiness to drop both "the letter and spirit of the Good Neighbor policy" (p. 3). Friedman holds that the "campaign against the region's Germans" effectively ended that policy "during the Second World War, not the Cold War" (p. 230). |
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