Alleged Nazi Collaborators in the United States After World War II

This thorough account of the postwar search for 150 suspected Nazi collaborators in the United States explains how they immigrated into the United States, why it took so long to locate and apprehend them, and the eventual founding in the 1970s of the investigative body that sought to bring them to justice.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Policemen and Camp Guards: The Crimes of Eastern European Nazi Collaborators during the Holocaust
Chapter 2: The Allied and American War Crimes Trials after World War II: Nuremberg and Beyond
Chapter 3: Nazi Collaborators from Eastern Europe as Immigrants: The Displaced Persons Acts and Beyond
Chapter 4: The Search for Nazi Collaborators from the 1950s to the 1970s: From Eichmann to the Ford Administration
Chapter 5: Changes to Immigration Law and the Founding of the OSI: From the 1970s to the 1980s
Afterword: The Effort of the OSI in Comparison and the Meaning of the Nazi Hunt
Appendix 1: Complete List of Suspects by Name, Ethnicity, Alleged Crimes, and Result of Investigation
Appendix 2: Cases' Outcomes

About the author

Christoph Schiessl is assistant teaching professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Product details

• Authors: Christoph Schiessl, Schiessl Christoph
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498529426
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2942-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Zweiter Weltkrieg, Europa, Amerikanische Geschichte, 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, The Holocaust, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust