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Citizen 865 : the hunt for Hitler's hidden soldiers in America

Summary: In the tiny Polish village of Trawniki, the SS set up a school for mass murder and then recruited a roving army of foot soldiers, 5,000 men strong, to help annihilate the Jewish population of occupied Poland. After the war, some of these men vanished, making their way to the U.S. and blending into communities across America. In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians discovered a Nazi roster from 1945. The long-forgotten document, containing more than 700 names, helped unravel the details behind the "Trawniki Men" who had spent years hiding in plain sight, their terrible secrets intact. Cenziper chronicles how a tenacious team of prosecutors and historians pursued these men and, up against the forces of time and political opposition, battled to the present day to remove them from U.S. soil. -- adapted from jacket

Item details

ISBN: 9780316449656
ISBN: 0316449652
Physical Description: print
xvii, 300 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Hachette Books, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-286) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: The dance -- Occupied Poland 1941-1943. The shtetl of Zolochiv ; The color of blood ; The wedding -- United States 1978-1992. Proper work ; Darkness comes my way ; Light at long last ; Breach of power ; God's grace ; Secrets and lies ; Sunrise in Prague ; Code for murder ; Seven floors above Manhattan -- Poland and the United States 1941-1951. Health and welfare ; Courage and devotion ; Amchu? ; Good fortune -- United States 1996-2013. Long after dark ; Winter in Penza ; The work of murder ; Taken up ; Compassion ; Second chances ; Credible evidence ; Trawniki -- Epilogue. Feels like vindication.

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War criminals United States History 20th century
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