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“I’ve tried to make sure that people don’t forget what happened,” concentration camp survivor and famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal told author Andrew Nagorski in their last conversation before Wiesenthal died in 2005.
In his latest history, “The Nazi Hunters,” Nagorski accomplishes that...
Nazi Hunters' chronicles a dogged pursuit of justice
Criminals are never beyond the law – but how far should we go in persecuting Nazi officers, guards and soldiers 71 years after the end of World War II?
Nagorski's book energetically tells some of the most famous stories of the quest to push against that historical complacency. It...
The Nazi hunters who wouldn’t give up: “Many war criminals… simply went back and resumed their lives”
Detailed, dramatic, and at times gripping, Andrew Nagorski’s “The Nazi Hunters” looks at about a dozen men and women who kept pushing at a time when the world was trying to move on. Hunters like Simon Wiesenthal and Serge and Ben Klarsfeld are characters here, as are Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie,...
Why the long, hard hunt for Nazis had to carry on
Ten top-ranking Nazis were sent to the gallows in 1946 by the international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg. Many more escaped justice for decades or forever, some by taking their own lives, some by going into hiding and some merely because all but a few dedicated avengers lost interest in them...
Finishing the War: At first punishment was meted swiftly. But those who could delay their day in court got off lightly.
Between 1618 and 1648, millions of civilians died from violence, famine and pestilence as armies ranged across Central Europe in a savage conflict about power and religion. When the treaty was signed that ended the...
Nagorski Traces Nearly-Forgotten History In ‘Nazi Hunters’
Following the end of World War II, the U.S. and its European allies pivoted immediately to a new mission: to stop the spread of Soviet Communism. The Cold War had begun, Nazis who would have been tried as war criminals suddenly became key resources in the fight against the communists, and the...
Overseas Press Club Book Event for The Nazi Hunters
Watch it live: https://plus.google.com/events/cte2iovop6lkkbi8jofa0om0ch0?authkey=CMr_i...
The Advantages of Old-Fashioned Reporting
Earlier this week, Andrew Nagorski divulged the advantage of spreading the word...
New & notable book: Andrew Nagorski’s ‘The Nazi Hunters’
Andrew Nagorski, author of 2012’s Hitlerland, digs into the end of an era in The Nazi Hunters, a historical biography that chronicles the best-known and lesser-known hunters and their hunted more than 70 years after the end of World War II and the closing of Auschwitz and the...
What Nazi Hunters Reveal About the Way We See History - TIME
What Nazi Hunters Reveal About the Way We See History
A new book goes inside a chapter of history that's about to end
As trials of former Nazis wend their way through the German legal system, ...
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