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Nazis after Hitler - How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth (Paperback)
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Nazis after Hitler - How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth (Paperback)
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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 persecution
until the war's end, and they had little or no responsibility or
guilt for what had happened. In making these and other claims
denying their involvement in the Holocaust, they defended the Nazi
atrocities and anti-Semitism. Nearly every fabrication of these war
criminals found its way into the mythology of postwar Holocaust
deniers, who have used them, in one form or another, to buttress
the deniers' biggest lie-that the Holocaust did not happen. The
perpetrators, therefore, helped advance Holocaust denial without
having denied the Holocaust happened. Written in a compelling
narrative style, Nazis after Hitler is the first to provide an
overview of the lives of Nazis who survived the war, the vast
majority of whom escaped justice. McKale provides a unique and
accessible synthesis of the extensive research on the Holocaust and
Nazi war criminals that will be invaluable for all readers
interested in World War II.
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