Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-964245-8
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 428 Seiten, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 534 g

This is the story of how Nazi war criminals escaped from justice at the end of the Second World War by fleeing through the Tyrolean Alps to Italian seaports, and the role played by the Red Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services of the major powers in smuggling them away from prosecution in Europe to a new life in South America.

The Nazi sympathies held by groups and individuals within these organizations evolved into a successful assistance network for fugitive criminals, providing them not only with secret escape routes but hiding places for their loot. Gerald Steinacher skillfully traces the complex escape stories of some of the most prominent Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann, showing how they mingled and blended with thousands of technically stateless or displaced persons, all flooding across the Alps

to Italy and from there, to destinations abroad.

The story of their escape shows clearly just how difficult the apprehending of war criminals can be. As Steinacher shows, all the major countries in the post-war world had 'mixed motives' for their actions, ranging from the shortage of trained intelligence personnel in the immediate aftermath of the war to the emerging East-West confrontation after 1947, which led to many former Nazis being recruited as agents turned in the Cold War.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the history of Nazi Germany and the issue of war criminals and the hunt for them

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steinacher, Gerald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1: The Nazi Escape Route Through Italy
2: The Co-Responsibility of the International Red Cross
3: The Vatican Network
4: The Intelligence Service Ratline
5: Destination Argentina
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steinacher, Gerald
Gerald Steinacher is currently a Joseph A. Schumpeter Research Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and Lecturer on Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is the author of numerous publications on German and Italian twentieth century history and is currently working on a study of the general attitudes and specific policies of the International Committee of the Red Cross in response to the Holocaust, the post-Second World War refugee crisis, and the early days of the Cold War.

Gerald Steinacher is currently a Joseph A. Schumpeter Research Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and Lecturer on Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is the author of numerous publications on German and Italian twentieth century history and is currently working on a study of the general attitudes and specific policies of the International Committee of the Red Cross in response to the Holocaust, the post-Second
World War refugee crisis, and the early days of the Cold War.