Nazis after Hitler: How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth
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- Synopsis
- This deeply researched and informative book traces the biographies of thirty "typical" perpetrators of the Holocaust—some well known, some obscure—who survived World War II. Donald M. McKale reveals the shocking reality that the perpetrators were only rarely, if ever, tried or punished for their crimes, and nearly all alleged their innocence in Germany's extermination of nearly six million European Jews during the war. He highlights the bitter contrasts between the comfortable postwar lives of many war criminals and the enduring suffering of their victims. The author shows how immediately after the war's end in 1945, Hitler's minions, whether the few placed on trial or the many living in freedom, carried on what amounted to a massive postwar ideological campaign against Jews. To be sure, the perpetrators didn't challenge the fact that the Holocaust happened. But in the face of exhaustive evidence showing their culpability, nearly all declared they had done nothing wrong, they had not known about the Jewish
- Copyright:
- 2011
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 456 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781442213180
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781442213166
- Publisher:
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Date of Addition:
- 07/16/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Military, Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.