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Title: The Nazis Next Door
Subtitle: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
Author: Eric Lichtblau
Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-28-14
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 69 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis.
Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI brought thousands of perpetrators to America as possible assets against their new Cold War enemies. When the Justice Department finally investigated and learned the truth, the results were classified and buried.
Using the dramatic story of one former perpetrator who settled in New Jersey, conned the CIA into hiring him, and begged for the agency's support when his wartime identity emerged, Eric Lichtblau tells the full, shocking story of how America became a refuge for hundreds of postwar Nazis.
Members Reviews:
Interesting but a little disorganized
It would be inappropriate to say that I enjoyed this book, given its horrific tales both of Nazi cruelty and of CIA amorality. I did learn a lot, especially about the government, that I hadn't known before. This wasn't, however, a book that was easy to listen to with focus or comprehension, despite Malcolm Hilgartner's skillful presentation. The book didn't seem to follow a logical progression, and it was hard at times to keep track of the story lines concerning each Nazi. At times the book seemed downright repetitive, so that, bored, I would stop listening for a while. I kept wishing I had a table of contents to which I could refer as I listened; it would have helped me to get a clearer picture of the book's structure. At any rate, for those who, like me, don't necessarily know much about the post-war immigration - or importation - of Nazis into the US, the book is revealing.
More hypocrisy in the McCarthy Era.
The seamy side of America's war on Communism, is that the CIA let thousands of Nazis settle peacefully in the U.S. Lichtblau provides ample evidence of this premise. He does so in an interesting, and sometime sarcastic manner, that the reality of this situation would engender.
His research indicates that the right wing Foster Dulles was the architect, of this policy. In addition to (overthrowing a few elected governments in Costa Rica and Iran,"info not included in this book") pardoning a few ex Nazis was on his to do list.
After all, weren't the Communists our real enemy, and what's a few dead Jews, gypsies, and partisans between friends?? Yea, and I personally hate the airport named after him in D.C, and then there was the 'successful Bay of Pigs operation', (What, politicians with irrational fears making them do crazy things,- this could never happen, again ?) .but I won't let that get in the way of a good story. And this is an interesting and well authored book.
Great book, compelling stories, great audio perf.
the audio performance thankfully was well done, none of that overly hysterical or robotic stuff, smooth ssiling. The book-well, the stories are things I knew, but each one reads like a little morality play.
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Title: The Nazis Next Door
Subtitle: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
Author: Eric Lichtblau
Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-28-14
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 69 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis.
Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI brought thousands of perpetrators to America as possible assets against their new Cold War enemies. When the Justice Department finally investigated and learned the truth, the results were classified and buried.
Using the dramatic story of one former perpetrator who settled in New Jersey, conned the CIA into hiring him, and begged for the agency's support when his wartime identity emerged, Eric Lichtblau tells the full, shocking story of how America became a refuge for hundreds of postwar Nazis.
Members Reviews:
Interesting but a little disorganized
It would be inappropriate to say that I enjoyed this book, given its horrific tales both of Nazi cruelty and of CIA amorality. I did learn a lot, especially about the government, that I hadn't known before. This wasn't, however, a book that was easy to listen to with focus or comprehension, despite Malcolm Hilgartner's skillful presentation. The book didn't seem to follow a logical progression, and it was hard at times to keep track of the story lines concerning each Nazi. At times the book seemed downright repetitive, so that, bored, I would stop listening for a while. I kept wishing I had a table of contents to which I could refer as I listened; it would have helped me to get a clearer picture of the book's structure. At any rate, for those who, like me, don't necessarily know much about the post-war immigration - or importation - of Nazis into the US, the book is revealing.
More hypocrisy in the McCarthy Era.
The seamy side of America's war on Communism, is that the CIA let thousands of Nazis settle peacefully in the U.S. Lichtblau provides ample evidence of this premise. He does so in an interesting, and sometime sarcastic manner, that the reality of this situation would engender.
His research indicates that the right wing Foster Dulles was the architect, of this policy. In addition to (overthrowing a few elected governments in Costa Rica and Iran,"info not included in this book") pardoning a few ex Nazis was on his to do list.
After all, weren't the Communists our real enemy, and what's a few dead Jews, gypsies, and partisans between friends?? Yea, and I personally hate the airport named after him in D.C, and then there was the 'successful Bay of Pigs operation', (What, politicians with irrational fears making them do crazy things,- this could never happen, again ?) .but I won't let that get in the way of a good story. And this is an interesting and well authored book.
Great book, compelling stories, great audio perf.
the audio performance thankfully was well done, none of that overly hysterical or robotic stuff, smooth ssiling. The book-well, the stories are things I knew, but each one reads like a little morality play.