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Nazis Next Door, The: How America Became A Safe Haven For Hitler's Men (2014)

by Eric Lichtblau(Favorite Author)

4.2 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1491581271 (ISBN13: 9781491581278)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Brilliance Audio

review 1: Excellent book explaining in detail how the US Government aided, harbored, relocated, and employed known Nazis at the end of WWII, even as the Jews and other persecuted groups languished in the camps, unable to secure visa's or find places to go. US Government officials are named, most who were more than happy to overlook "minor war crimes" as the re-tooled bio's and files read, in order to bring in known high-level Nazis who could help in the Cold War against Russia, some even before the war ended. Files were scrubbed, polygraph test discrepancies were overlooked, and the US Government was willing to turn a blind eye. It wasn't until decades later, as US public sentiment shifted, that investigations began to "find" these criminals, long hidden by our own government. Full ... moredisclosure, I couldn't finish the book. While reading account after account, it was clear how rampant anti-semitism was here in the US, and how that set the stage for what occurred. The book is very detailed, and even without finishing it, it was clear how it turned out.
review 2: 3.5 stars. A really infuriating look at how the United States, and particularly our national security apparatus, not only turned a blind eye toward allowing some Nazis into the country, but even employed some of them. Some ground in here has been covered extensively elsewhere. This includes things like Operation Paperclip and the recruitment of Nazi scientists to come work on our space program, among other things. That's the stuff that makes blood boil, especially when you read about some of the experiments these monsters conducted. Perhaps the most frustrating story is about one former Nazi who not only managed to avoid being deported after being exposed (thanks partially to CIA interference) but even managed to win several hundred thousand dollars in a libel judgment against a publishing arm of the New York Times (he later died in a vigilante bombing incident). The book's structure is a bit off, but worth a read. less

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