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Alleged Nazi collaborators in the United States after World War II

Title: Alleged Nazi collaborators in the United States after World War II / Christoph Schiessl.
Author: Schiessl, Christoph
Publication: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, [2016]

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Description

xxv, 217 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This book follows the story of suspected Nazi war criminals in the United States and analyzes their supposed crimes during World War II, their entry into the United States as war refugees in the 1940s and 1950s, and their prosecution in the 1970s and beyond by the U.S. government, specifically by the Office of Special Investigation (OSI). In particular, this book explains why and how such individuals entered the United States, why it took so long to locate and apprehend them, how the OSI was founded, and how the OSI has tried to bring them to justice. This study constitutes a thorough account of 150 suspects and examines how the search for them connects to larger developments in postwar U.S. history. In this latter regard, one major theme includes the role Holocaust memory played in the aforementioned developments. This account adds significantly to the historiographical debate about when and how the Holocaust found its way into American Jewish and also general American consciousness. In general, these suspected Nazi war criminals could come to the United States largely undetected during the early Cold War. In this atmosphere, they morphed from Nazi collaborators to ardent anti-Communists and, outside of some big fish, not even within the Jewish community was their role in the Holocaust much discussed. Only with the Eichmann trial in the early 1960s did interest in other Holocaust perpetrators increase, culminating in the founding of the OSI in the late 1970s.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (197-208) and index.

Contents

Policemen and camp guards: the crimes of Eastern European Nazi collaborators during the Holocaust -- The Allied and American War Crimes Trials after World War II: Nuremberg and beyond -- Nazi collaborators from Eastern Europe as immigrants: the displaced persons acts and beyond -- The search for Nazi collaborators from the 1950s to the 1970s: from Eichmann to the Ford Administration -- Changes to immigration law and the founding of the OSI: from the 1970s to the 1980s -- Afterword: the effort of the OSI in comparison and the meaning of the Nazi hunt.

Call Number

JFE 16-4822

ISBN

9781498529402
1498529402
9781498529426
1498529429

LCCN

2015046056
40025902333

OCLC

930068060

Author

Schiessl, Christoph, author.

Title

Alleged Nazi collaborators in the United States after World War II / Christoph Schiessl.

Publisher

Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (197-208) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Schiessl, Christoph, author. Alleged Nazi collaborators in the United States after World War II Lanham : Lexington Books, 2016 9781498529419 (DLC) 2015046254

Other Standard Identifier

40025902333

Research Call Number

JFE 16-4822

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