Publication Date

Spring 1977

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

Advisor

Charles B. Burdick; Jack M. Patt

Abstract

My topic for this thesis, the U. S. Military Mission in Berlin in 1919, was the organization responsible for tending to allied prisoners imprisoned in Germany after the First World War. Most of these prisoners were Russians cut off from their homes by the Russian Revolution and the allied strategy for containing the Soviet threat. At no time did the Mission's staff number over 1,000, but this small organization worked wonders in sustaining and repatri­ating thousands of non-American prisoners. The scope of the Mission's work created numerous problems in organization and presentation.

There were two organizations involved with the U. S. Mission, thus a simple chronological presentation risked mass confusion. Therefore, the format of the paper is topical and chronological so that concurrent activities can be scrutinized separately.

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* Additional details about the author’s thesis advisor, Charles B. Burdick, military historian and SJSU history professor, are available here: Emeritus and Retired Faculty Biographies: Charles B. Burdick

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