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“The Dramatic Sequel to the War”: The U.S. Army, the International Tracing Service, and the Search for the Missing, 1945-1950 at Texas A & M University
Abstract
This thesis argues that the American Graves Registration Command (AGRC) and the International Tracing Service (ITS) cooperated to recover and identify the remains of missing U.S. military personnel and civilian casualties in Europe after World War II. Historians have written about both of these two efforts, but treated them as distinct. This thesis will demonstrate that they were, in fact, interconnected and entangled. Bodies of soldiers and civilians did not fall into neatly segregated spaces. The AGRC and ITS regularly uncovered documentary and physical evidence sought by the other agency and established an information sharing system. These twinned searches benefited from and, in some cases, depended on each other to form an integrated, symbiotic endeavor. Sources for this study came from the ITS records held at the International Center on Nazi Persecution in Bad Arolsen, Germany, only opened to the public in 2007.
Subject
World War IIMissing in Action
Prisoners of War
Forced Labor
International Tracing Service
American Graves Registration Command
Citation
Krause, Tristan Parker (2023). “The Dramatic Sequel to the War”: The U.S. Army, the International Tracing Service, and the Search for the Missing, 1945-1950 at Texas A & M University. Master's thesis, Texas A&M University. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /198880.