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

> They are investigating which hands actually brought them here

The Ratline helped many nazis escape to places like Argentinia.

Would be nice to see more evidence of who helped them escape justice back then.

 

edit: The Ratline was just one option for nazis to get away. In the the chaotic time right after WWII they could also escape with help of the Red Cross [source].





Via Operation Paperclip [source] thousands of nazis also got away. Those where mainly scientists and secret agents, some where war-criminals. The most famous of them was Werner von Braun, father of the American space program. He got his nazi history white-washed by the OSS (now the CIA) like many others from Germany and Eastern Europe [source, book].

Thank you. So I caught a NPR interview with the author of The Nazis Next Door: http://www.amazon.com/The-Nazis-Next-Door-America-ebook/dp/B00HK3LRKW

And one of the things he talked about that stuck with me was that he mentioned in his research he found that these Nazis and Nazi collaborators, who had done unspeakably inhumane things to millions of people, once they settled in the US, generally as a reward for being CIA assets against the Soviets once the war was over, became these quiet ordinary normal people.

So the scary thing is I think about what could happen in the reverse, as in what would happen if myself and my neighbors were put in a world war situation. A classic example is Assad, who in another life could have been a quiet eye doctor.

Of course I'm not suggesting that the person doesn't need to take responsibility. Rule of law ceases to exist if there are no punishments for actions. And clearly being a good husband and father can't erase a person's Nazi crimes against humanity. But it is something interesting to think about.