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About the product For whom “Hunters for Nazis” is a book for those who are interested in history outside the school textbook, who want to know not only the “official versions”, but also the opinions of real people, participants in the events, about difficult and troubled times in the history of mankind. “I try to talk to people about empathy and compassion so they can see the injustice,” says author Andrew Nagorski. «We need to talk about authoritarian domination and attempts to marginalize people so that history does not repeat itself.» About the book The new book by an American journalist and publicist is a gripping and true story of a small group of men and women who were later called Nazi hunters. They refused to accept the fact that Nazi criminals would go unpunished, and therefore hunted them down, caught and brought them to justice. The book is based on real events and the memories of specific people and at the same time evokes lively emotions, captivating like a terrible detective story. The author is sure that it is necessary to tell about the history of the persecution of Nazi criminals right now — after all, both former Nazis and their persecutors will soon remain only in human memory. And until this happens, until reality has turned into a myth, you need to have time to tell the world about it. At the same time, Nagorski asks a difficult question: how was it possible that high-ranking officials of the Third Reich, who sent thousands and thousands of people to their deaths, after the war were able to occupy high positions, work in American intelligence and even in the UN? Why did current issues — such as the fight against communism or the Cold War — allow the Allies to leave many Nazi crimes unpunished? About the author Andrew Nagorski is a journalist and publicist who has worked for Newsweek for over 30 years, has headed foreign editorial offices in Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw, Berlin and Hong Kong, and became a senior editor of Newsweek in 2000. Author of popular science books about World War II and the history of the Third Reich. Nagorski became interested in these topics while working in Germany and other European countries. In his work on the primary sources, he was greatly helped by his knowledge of Polish, Russian, German and French. Abstract The Nuremberg Trials 1945-1946. over the leadership of the Third Reich had to show all mankind that the main culprits of the «plague of the XX century» were justly punished. But is it really so? How is it possible for the killer of hundreds of people to become an agent of the American counterintelligence, and then a consultant to the President of Bolivia? Why was the former Wehrmacht soldier able to take the post of UN Secretary General, and the Hitlerite propagandist — to become the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany? In the spirit of a good detective, this engaging book tells the true story of enthusiasts who made it their life to find and expose Nazi criminals who escaped punishment — from the organizer of the Nazi concentration camp network Eichmann and «Angel of Death» Dr. Mengele to the overseer named Mare. Having different motives, using different methods and resources, the «Nazi hunters» pursued one goal: to show that crimes against humanity do not have a statute of limitations and the punishment will overtake the culprit even decades later.
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