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The Insecurity of America: The Curious Case of Torture’s Escalating Popularity

In: Justice, Sustainability, and Security

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  • Brent J. Steele

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In an Ethics and International Affairs article that was later republished in the influential second edition of the volume with the same name, John Lewis Gaddis made the case for the importance of “morals” in global politics by looking back at the way in which the Allied militar­ies carried out their postwar occupation of Germany in 1945–1946. In a section of his chapter titled “Domestic Culture and External Behavior,” Gaddis noted that it has long been known that the Red Army behaved brutally toward German civilians in those parts of the country that it occupied. This contrasted strikingly with the treatment accorded the Germans in the American, British, and French zones … Red Army soldiers, it now appears, raped as many as two million German women in 1945 and 1946.

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  • Brent J. Steele, 2013. "The Insecurity of America: The Curious Case of Torture’s Escalating Popularity," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Eric A. Heinze (ed.), Justice, Sustainability, and Security, chapter 0, pages 171-204, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-32294-4_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137322944_7
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