| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Remaking the Conquering Heroes: The Social and Geopolitical Impact of the Post-War American Occupation of Germany. By John Willoughby. (New York: Palgrave, 2001. xvi, 187 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-312-23400-7.)

The American occupation of Germany has long fascinated students of postwar German history. Scholars agree that American influence played a major role in the Federal Republic of Germany's political and cultural rehabilitation after 1945. John Willoughby's goal in his short book (151 pages of text) is to show that the impact on the Americans was no less significant. Willoughby argues that the domestication of American troops, from undisciplined, sexually predatory "conquerors" to semipermanent residents, living with their families in large settlements and participating in a range of tourist and social activities, helped change American attitudes toward armies of occupation and the use of their forces to extend American influence overseas. . . .

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