After World War II, rumors circulated that a secret organization named "Odessa" had smuggled Nazi war criminals out of Europe, a rumor further fueled by the wildly popular novel The Odessa File. But "Odessa" was nothing more than a myth. Now, in Nazis on the Run, historian Gerald Steinacher provides the true story of how the Nazis escaped their fate. Steinacher not only reveals how Nazi war criminals escaped from justice at the end of the Second World War, fleeing through the Tyrolean Alps to Italian seaports, but he also highlights the key roles played by the Red Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services of the major powers. The book takes a hard look at the International Committee of the Red Cross, proving that identification papers issued by the Red Cross made it possible for thousands of Nazis, war criminals, and collaborators--including Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengale--to slip through the hands of justice and to find refuge in North and South America, Spain, and the Near East. Steinacher underscores the importance of the South Tyrol as a "ratline" from Germany to Italy and also reveals that many figures in the Catholic Church--sometimes knowingly, other times unwittingly--were involved in large-scale Nazi smuggling, often driven by the fear of an imminent communist takeover of Italy. Finally, the book documents how the Counter Intelligence Corps and later the CIA recruited former SS men to advise U.S. intelligence agencies and smuggled them out of Soviet-occupied areas of Austria and Eastern Europe into Italy and on to South America. Based on extensive research in newly opened archives, Nazis on the Run is the first book to provide a complete picture of this little-known story of justice denied.

Product Description: Sentenced to long prison terms at the Trial of the Major War Criminals at Nuremberg, seven of Adolf Hitler's closest associates - Rudolf Hess, Albert Speer, Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Walther Funk, Konstantin von Neurath, and Baldur von Schirach - were to have become forgotten men at Berlin's Spandau Prison...read more

Attempts to unravel the many complex mysteries surrounding a document, called the 'Secret Reich matter,' created by a group of Nazi leaders in 1942 at a lavish villa on the shore of Berlin's Lake Wannsee, that tallied up the Jews in Europe, classified half and quarter Jews, and ordered the senseless slaughter of thousands of Jews as the 'final solution to the Jewish Question.'

Describes the notable efforts of the world's most famous and successful Nazi hunter to bring to justice those responsible for the horrific, genocidal crimes of World War II, detailing his capture of Adolf Eichmann, the mastermind of Hitler's 'Final Solution,' and his pursuit of Mengele, Stangl, and other notorious war criminals. Original. (view table of contents)

Looks at the effects of Nazism and the Holocaust on present-day Germany and its people.

Product Description: Britain--Nazi Germany's fiercest opponent and one that never fell to the enemy--turned into a home for the war's most terrible mass murderers and their collaborators. Through a picture, at once compelling and horrifying, of Clement Atlee's post war government and its immigration policy, it becomes clear that Eastern Europeans had favored status over non whites and Jewish Holocaust survivors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: War crimes prosecutions create unique difficulties as civilian standards of law are applied to the extraordinary circumstances of war. Governments are often surprisingly hesitant to pursue war criminals. Patrick Brode has produced a fascinating study of such issues in Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments, a history of Canada's prosecution of war crimes committed during the Second World War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the life of a concentration camp survivor who tracked down Nazi war criminals after the war and brought them to justice

Product Description: The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Accounts of four Nazi war criminals who entered the United States after World War II, the lives they led here, and the men who hunted them down

Product Description: Although more than 40 years have passed since the end of World War II, the subject of Nazi war criminals remains a timely and emotionally charged topic of interest to scholars as well as the general public. Administered jointly by the four major Allies, the Nuremberg trial of Hermann Goering and Joachim von Ribbentrop, among other Nazi leaders, has drawn much attention over the years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Draws links between Kurt Waldheim and major political, religious, and crime organizations throughout the world while shedding light on Nazi war criminals still at-large today

Tells the stories of dedicated U.S. citizens who have worked for the identification and deportation of Nazi war criminals living in America

Details the cases of six infamous Nazis wanted for their war crimes, including Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Martin Bormann, and the SS trooper who arrested Anne Frank and her family

Relates the remarkable story of two Holocaust survivors who persuaded Wiesenthal not to pursue their Nazi tormentor, Werner Schultze