"After the Liberation:

   The American Administration of the
   Concentration Camp at Dachau"

by Henry Staruk
     University of Tennessee

"AFTER THE LIBERATION: The American Administration of the Concentration Camp at Dachau"

Title Page / Acknowledgements / Abstract / Preface / Table of Contents

Chapter I: Dachau and the Concentration Camp System

Chapter II: 29 April 1945: The Americans Arrive

Chapter III: The Problems of Administration

Chapter IV: Rehabilitation and Repatriation

Chapter V: Final Notes

Bibliography / Vita

IMPORTANT:

I have posted these pages as a means to make available access to my research on what I think is a fascinating topic.  By doing that, I acknowledge that people will read this and maybe use it for further research or just to enrich their own knowledge on the subject.  I encourage this, of course, as long as it is done responsibly.  Being a Ph.D.student at the University of Tennessee, I have graded many hundreds of undergraduates' term papers as well as leading discussion sections, so I am well aware of the problems of PLAGIARISM.  I bring this up only because I'll never know exactly who is reading this nor their experience with proper citing procedures, and also because of my firsthand experience with undergraduates who, whether consciously or not, have in fact committed plagiarism.  I mean no offense to anyone by referring to this.  So, if you plan to use any of this for any research project -- high school, university, personal, professional -- this paper should be cited as follows:

Staruk, Henry F. "After the Liberation: The American Administration of the Concentration Camp at Dachau." M.A. thesis, University of Tennessee, 2002.

An original copy of this paper, accepted as my Master's Thesis 25 April 2002, is on the shelves of Hodges Library, University of Tennessee.  You may be able to access the University's library home page for the online catalog, and request a copy through your local library or institution's Interlibrary Loan service.

Other Papers of Interest

A similar look at the American administration of the camp at Buchenwald, in a much shorter paper with some introductory overlap:The Liberation and American Administration of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp

A few apologies:
First, as you can plainly see, this is not the most technically or aesthetically impressive web site you're likely to come across.  Instead, it serves its purpose as a method of transmitting information, which (at one point, at least) was the entire point of the Internet.  I intend to win no awards for web design, &c.; only to post the results of some of my research in a forum more accessible than the print versions are.
Second, although I will leave the text intact, this will probably be a continuing work in progress, adding other papers when I feel it necessary or just tinkering with the format and presentation of the pages.  Again, it's sort of the nature of the Internet, so we'll see what happens.
And third, continuing the "nature of the Internet" theme, I do apologize for the advertising, but free hosting's hard to come by without it.

Questions? Comments? hstaruk@utk.edu