Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" ("The Sunday Times");
"a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking
scholarship"("Literary Review"); and "absorbing and thoroughly
gripping... deserves a lasting place among histories of the war."
("The Sunday Telegraph"), "Hunting Evil "is the first complete and
definitive account of how the Nazis escaped and were pursued and
captured -- or managed to live long lives as fugitives.
At the end of the Second World War, an estimated 30,000 Nazi war
criminals fled from justice, including some of the highest ranking
members of the Nazi Party. Many of them have names that resonate
deeply in twentieth-century history -- Eichmann, Mengele, Martin
Bormann, and Klaus Barbie -- not just for the monstrosity of their
crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war
existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step
ahead of their pursuers. Aided and abetted by prominent people
throughout Europe, they hid in foreboding castles high in the
Austrian alps, and were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents.
The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic,
featuring vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, and
daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives.
In this exhaustively researched and compellingly written work of
World War II history and investigative reporting, journalist and
novelist Guy Walters gives a comprehensive account of one of the
most shocking and important aspects of the war: how the most
notorious Nazi war criminals escaped justice, how they were
pursued, captured or able to remain free until their natural deaths
and how the Nazis were assisted while they were on the run by
"helpers" ranging from a Vatican bishop to a British camel doctor,
and even members of Western intelligence services. Based on all new
interviews with Nazi hunters and former Nazis and intelligence
agents, travels along the actual escape routes, and archival
research in Germany, Britain, the United States, Austria, and
Italy, "Hunting Evil " authoritatively debunks much of what has
previously been understood about Nazis and Nazi hunters in the post
war era, including myths about the alleged "Spider" and "Odessa"
escape networks and the surprising truth about the world's most
legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
From its haunting chronicle of the monstrous mass murders the Nazis
perpetrated and the murky details of their postwar existence to the
challenges of hunting them down, " Hunting Evil "is a monumental
work of nonfiction written with the pacing and intrigue of a
thriller.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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