Hunt for Nazis : South America's dictatorships and the prosecution of Nazi crimes /
Hunt for Nazis is the first comprehensive account of the post-1945 efforts to bring Nazi war criminals who had escaped to South America to justice. The author shows that the Nazi hunt -- which resulted in spectacular cases like the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann -- should not only be understood as par...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
©2018.
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| Series: | Studies of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvcmxs29 |
| Summary: | Hunt for Nazis is the first comprehensive account of the post-1945 efforts to bring Nazi war criminals who had escaped to South America to justice. The author shows that the Nazi hunt -- which resulted in spectacular cases like the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann -- should not only be understood as part of the afterlife of the Third Reich, but that it also became an integral aspect of dealing with repression at the hands of authoritarian regimes in South America. Dissidents and human rights activists assumed that the escaped Nazi perpetrators and collaborators continued to be involved in violent crimes in the service of these new dictatorships. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789048536245 9048536243 9462985219 9789462985216 |