Nazis on the run : how Hitler's henchmen fled justice
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Nazis on the run : how Hitler's henchmen fled justice
Oxford University Press, 2012
- : pbk
- Other Title
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Nazis auf der Flucht : wie Kriegsverbrecher über Italien nach Übersee entkamen
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Based on the author's Habilitation--Universität Innsbruck, 2007
Originally published by Studienverlag, c2008
"First published in paperback 2012."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [342]-364) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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
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