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

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

Title remainder

the hunt for Hitler's hidden soldiers in America

Statement of responsibility

Debbie Cenziper

Title variation

Citizen eight hundred sixty-five

Creator

• Cenziper, Debbie

Author

• Cenziper, Debbie

Subject

• United States, Department of Justice | Office of Special Investigations -- History
• War criminals -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Fugitives from justice -- United States -- History
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- United States
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
• Nazi hunters -- History

Language

eng

Summary

"In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945 that no Western investigator had ever seen. The long-forgotten document, containing more than 700 names, helped unravel the details behind the most lethal killing operation in World War Two. 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. Though they participated in some of the most unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, "Trawniki Men" spent years hiding in plain sight, their terrible secrets intact. In a story spanning seven decades, Citizen 865 chronicles the harrowing wartime journeys of two Jewish orphans from occupied Poland who outran the men of Trawniki and settled in the United States, only to learn that some of their one-time captors had followed. 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. Through insider accounts and research in four countries, this urgent and powerful narrative provides a front row seat to the dramatic turn of events that allowed a small group of American Nazi hunters to hold murderous men accountable for their crimes decades after the war's end." --

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Provided by publisher

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NjBwBT

Dewey number

364.1/38

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

D803

LC item number

.C46 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography