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Intelligence officer and interrogator Hans L. Trefousse with the Nazi German Hummel self-propelled gun he convinced the crew of to surrender to the Allies. Near Wurzen, Germany.
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Trefousse was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1935 (at age 13) as his parents fled the increasingly totalitarian Nazi regime. He graduated
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saved hundreds of lives by arguing for 11 hours with a Nazi commander holed with many troops, convincing him to surrender to Allied forces.
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Trefousse initially was interested in diplomatic history, and his first book, based on his dissertation, was
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The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide
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The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide
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from 1950 to 1998. He also taught as a distinguished professor of history at
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Impeachment of a President: Andrew Johnson, the Blacks, and Reconstruction
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The Radical Republicans: Lincoln's Vanguard for Racial Justice
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The Radical Republicans: Lincoln's Vanguard for Racial Justice
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Reconstruction: America's First Effort at Racial Democracy
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Benjamin Franklin Wade: Radical Republican from Ohio
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Hans Trefousse
City College New York
Columbia University
Frankfurt/Main
Reconstruction Era
World War II
Brooklyn College
Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Phi Beta Kappa
New York City College
U.S. Army
World War II
Leipzig
GI Bill
Columbia University
Ben Butler
New Orleans, Louisiana
American Civil War
Reconstruction era
Benjamin F. Wade
Thaddeus Stevens
Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
Bill Clinton
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adding missing items
Carl Schurz
Pearl Harbor
Andreas W. Daum

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