Robert Billinger, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History at Wingate University, author
Robert D. Billinger, Jr., Ph.D., a native of Bethlehem, PA, is the Ruth Davis Horton Professor of History at Wingate University, where he has taught since 1979. He is a graduate of Lehigh University and completed gradate degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also was a Fulbright Graduate Scholar to Vienna, Austria. He is the author of three books, including two concerning German POWs in America during World War II. His Hitler’s Soldiers in the Sunshine State: German POWs in Florida was published by the University Press of Florida in 2000. That press has recently published his Nazi POWs in the Tar Heel State. One of his favorite presentation themes is: “Uniforms Conceal Diversity: German POWs in North Carolina Camps During World War II."
