After the Nuremberg trials concluded and the Cold War began, most of the victors in World War II turned their attention elsewhere, too preoccupied to finish prosecuting Nazi war criminals. Lower-ranking Nazi officials blended in with the rest of Europe as people across the continent embarked...
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May 10, 2016
There is a Zelig-like quality to Andrew Nagorski’s “The Nazi Hunters.” More often than not, in a saga spanning decades and continents, Nagorski has been there, interviewing the men and women pursuing the worst villains of the Holocaust.
Many of the stories he recounts, from the long-...
May 06, 2016
Andrew Nagorski’s The Nazi Hunters comes at a significant point, at the juncture between living memory and the historical record. Death, rather than the courts, now claims the last Nazi criminals — as well as those who labored for decades to bring them to justice.
Nagorski has...
May 05, 2016
Bringing Nazi criminals to justice has been a counter-cultural pursuit, both immediately after the war and today
As Germany closes the book on Shoah-related trials, author Andrew Nagorski probes a seven-decade saga in his new book, ‘The Nazi Hunters’
“One-...
May 05, 2016
Andrew Nagorski writes an exhaustive account of those who continue to go after Nazi war criminals.
Seven decades after the end of World War II, at least one Nazi hunter remains active.
For a campaign called Operation Last Chance, Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Israel...
May 02, 2016
Andrew Nagorski’s latest book, The Nazi Hunters, (Simon & Schuster) will be released in May with several events in New York City. Nagorski, EWI’s former vice president of communications and public policy, will speak at the Overseas Press Club of America, 747 Third Ave., on May 18,...
April 27, 2016
Major Wilhelm Trapp, who led of one of the most notorious Nazi killing squads in Poland, once said to his driver, “If this Jewish business is ever avenged on earth, then have mercy on us Germans.”
Most Nazis never did meet justice on this earth. That even a few did is largely...
April 18, 2016
Centerpiece Film at the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival: The People vs. Fritz Bauer
Philadelphia Premiere
Date: Monday, April 18
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Kimmel Center for Performing Arts...
December 04, 2015
KAITY KLONOWSKI | Special to Jewish News
The 1920s and 1930s were key to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and “if people had been paying attention during those two decades, this whole thing – the entire Holocaust – could have been prevented,” author Andrew Nagorski told an...