The Nazi hunters
Record details
- ISBN: 9781476771861 (hardcover) :
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Physical Description:
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regular print
xv, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm - Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The hangman's handiwork -- "An eye for an eye" -- Common design -- The penguin rule -- My brother's keeper -- See less evil -- "Like-minded fools" -- "Un momentito, senõr" -- "In cold blood" -- "Little people" -- A slap to remember -- "Model citizens" -- To La Paz and back -- Wartime lies -- Chasing ghosts -- Full circle. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Nazi hunters -- History World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities War criminals -- Germany -- History Fugitives from justice -- Germany -- History Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Castlegar Public Library | 940.5318 NAG (Text) | 35146001968361 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
Nazi Hunters reveals the experiences of the young American prosecutors in the Nuremberg and Dachau trials, Benjamin Ferencz and William Denson; the Polish investigating judge Jan Sehn, who handled the case of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss; Germany’s judge and prosecutor Fritz Bauer, who repeatedly forced his countrymen to confront their country’s record of mass murder; the Mossad agent Rafi Eitan, who was in charge of the Israeli team that nabbed Eichmann; and Eli Rosenbaum, who rose to head the US Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations that belatedly sought to expel war criminals who were living quietly in the United States. But some of the Nazi hunters’ most controversial actions involved the more ambiguous cases, such as former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim’s attempt to cover up his wartime history. Or the fate of concentration camp guards who have lived into their nineties, long past the time when reliable eyewitnesses could be found to pinpoint their exact roles. Andrew Nagorski's book is a tale of gritty determination, at times reckless behavior and relentless pursuit.