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The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
The Nazis Next Door How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
Author: Eric Lichtblau
The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. — Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, an...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780547669199
ISBN-10: 0547669194
Publication Date: 11/4/2014
Pages: 266
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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I've read about these Nazis who were brought to America in numerous other books. But this is the first book I've read detailing the investigations to convict and deport some of them. How they ever came to the U.S. and were granted citizenship is a blot on our history.

The Soviet Union's knowledge of these cases---in the hundreds, if not thousands---helped the Soviets rationalize their disbelief in America's stand for justice in the world. Not that the Soviet system was any better than what the Nazis had.

It's not enough to wipe the traces of honors given these Nazis---the awards, building and street names, etc---we need to do teh same for those members of the U.S. military, Department of Justice, FBI and CIA who helped conceal these monsters. If you read this book, I draw your attention to page 85, where Attorney General Robert Kennedy refused to help the Nazi hunters.


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