(Source: Amsterdam University Press)
Amsterdam University
Press has published a book on the prosecution of Nazis having fled to Latin
America post World War II (English translation of the 2013 version in German).
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daniel Stahl is
Research Associate at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. For the German
publication of Hunt for Nazis Daniel Stahl received the Opus Primum award of
the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany's largest private research funder.
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