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    The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
    The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
    The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men
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    The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men

    Written by Eric Lichtblau

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 28, 2014
    ISBN9781491581261
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    Eric Lichtblau

    ERIC LICHTBLAU, a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, is the best-selling author of The Nazis Next Door and Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice. He was a Washington reporter for the New York Times for fifteen years, while also writing for the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, TIME, and other publications. He has been a frequent guest on NPR, MSNBC, C-SPAN, and other networks, as well as a speaker at many universities and institutions. He lives outside Washington, D.C.

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    • 4/5
      Omg..i had never heard of "operation paperclip" before, how incredibly disheartening that our government had participated in this atrocity..

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    • 5/5
      I knew a bit about Operation Paperclip but it is shocking to learn the extent to which the United States government gave safe haven to Nazi war criminals, protected them, and even intervened on their behalf. Meticulously researched and thoroughly documented.