war criminals

Biography of Simon Wiesenthal, discussing his life and commitment to the cause of justice for Jewish people and to the pursuit of Nazi war criminals.

A first-person account by the Israeli agent who captured Hitler's chief executioner.

Provides the conclusions reached by this investigation into the suicide of Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering. The results are radically at odds with those of the U.S. Army Board of inquiry.

A biography of the German architect and Nazi leader who served as Minister of Armaments and Munitions under Adolf Hitler. Covers his childhood and marriage, his membership in the Nazi party, the Nuremberg Trials, and his imprisonment at Spandau.

The story of Efraim Zuroff who found information on over 1700 suspected Nazi war criminals during his career as a researcher for the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations and as director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Presents in full the Wannsee Protocol, which outlined plans for the Final Solution, and contemplates why the meeting that produced it was even held, since the mass murder of the Jewish people had already begun, and how the men present were capable of treating the subject in such a businesslike manner.

Steinacher not only reveals how Nazi war criminals escaped from justice at the end of the Second World War, fleeing through the Tyrolean Alps to Italian seaports, but he also highlights the key roles played by the Red Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services of the major powers. --from publisher description.

More than 600 biographies of notorious personages, from the merely controversial to extremely negative, from ancient times to the present and worldwide, with emphasis on their roles in historical events or impact on law enforcement or popular culture.

Profiles sixty women and men who were caught up in the Holocaust, including Nazi perpetrators and their victims, world leaders and policy makers, and those who showed their humanity and courage by resisting Hitler's reign of genocidal terror.