Alleged Nazi Collaborators in the United States after World War II (eBook)

Christoph Schiessl (Autor)

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2016
270 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2941-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This thorough account of the postwar search for 150 suspected Nazi collaborators in the United States explains how they immigrated into the United States, why it took so long to locate and apprehend them, and the eventual founding in the 1970s of the investigative body that sought to bring them to justice.

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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. The manuscript makes use, among other documents, of declassified sources from the CIA and FBI, little used trial accounts, and hard to locate OSI records.

Autor

Christoph Schiessl is assistant teaching professor at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Policemen and Camp Guards: The Crimes of Eastern European Nazi Collaborators during the HolocaustChapter 2: The Allied and American War Crimes Trials after World War II: Nuremberg and BeyondChapter 3: Nazi Collaborators from Eastern Europe as Immigrants: The Displaced Persons Acts and BeyondChapter 4: The Search for Nazi Collaborators from the 1950s to the 1970s: From Eichmann to the Ford AdministrationChapter 5: Changes to Immigration Law and the Founding of the OSI: From the 1970s to the 1980sAfterword: The Effort of the OSI in Comparison and the Meaning of the Nazi HuntAppendix 1: Complete List of Suspects by Name, Ethnicity, Alleged Crimes, and Result of InvestigationAppendix 2: Cases’ Outcomes

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.3.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Holocaust • Legal Studies • Nazism • The Cold War • U.S. immigration history • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-2941-0 / 1498529410
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-2941-9 / 9781498529419