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A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad.
The 600-page report, which the Justice Department has tried to keep secret for four years, provides new evidence about more than two dozen of the most notorious Nazi cases of the last three decades.
It describes the government’s posthumous pursuit of Dr. Josef Mengele, the so-called Angel of Death at Auschwitz, part of whose scalp was kept in a Justice Department official’s drawer; the vigilante killing of a former Waffen SS soldier in New Jersey; and the government’s mistaken identification of the Treblinka concentration camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.
Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says – NYTimes.com. (and if that doesn’t work… here)
The forgotten history of this time includes large pro-Nazi sentiments in many areas of the country, which culminated into a very large rally in Madison Square Garden. We even had Hitler Youth. Further, read some of the stories of Nazi war prisoners housed in the South. They were greeted with open arms, and would later give interviews citing German propaganda that they had been told that the U.S. would actually join Nazi Germany.
Long, dark, ugly history.
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Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Yikes! Just scary. FDR and Truman were presidents. Starts at the top. I’m just sayin.
This is not news, expect for the specifics. There may have been pro Nazi pockets, but for the most part, people hated the Nazi’s, especially once their sons started coming home in coffins. In fact, there were German POW’s in the city I am living in now. They worked in the canning factories and were moved around doing agriculture work. For the most part, they were draftees into Hitler’s army and not Nazis. But, our political and military leaders did make pragmatic decisions, like with Wernher von Braun and the scientists who built V-1 and V-2 rockets. These people knew slave labor were building the rockets. It doesn’t surprise me this happened.
Google “Operation Paper Clip”.
Actually “Operation PaperClip”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
While there are some surprising, and gory, details, this has been public knowledge for decades. Shoot, Werner von Braun was the centerpiece of our space program, and he was the inventor of the V-2 rockets the Nazis used against London and Britain at the end of the war. The bit about Mengele’s scalp is disturbing, but beyond that, treating this as revelatory is a bit much. Shoot, Project Paper Clip was used by Chris Carter as part of his X-Files mythology.
I just realized I started two sentences with the word “shoot”. Hope you don’t take it literally.
Shoot, Geoffrey, I reckon you did.