Daniel Stahl, Daniel Stahl

Hunt for Nazis

South America's Dictatorships and the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes

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Produktbeschreibung

Hunt for Nazis is the first comprehensive account of the post-1945 efforts to bring Nazi war criminals who had escaped to South America to justice. The author shows that the Nazi hunt -- which resulted in spectacular cases like the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann -- should not only be understood as part of the afterlife of the Third Reich, but that it also became an integral aspect of dealing with repression at the hands of authoritarian regimes in South America. Dissidents and human rights activists assumed that the escaped Nazi perpetrators and collaborators continued to be involved in violent crimes in the service of these new dictatorships.

Produktdetails

• Amsterdam University Press
• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9789462985216
• ISBN-10: 9462985219
• Artikelnr.: 52005576

Autorenporträt

Daniel Stahl is Research Associate at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. For the German publication of Hunt for Nazis. Daniel Stahl received the Opus Primum award of the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany's largest private research funder.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I. The 'Fourth Reich' 1. World War II: The Particularity of
Argentina 2. Nazi Flight: From Anticipation to Reality 3. Politicizing the
Nazi Flight 4. European Amnesty Policies II. Reluctant Manhunt 1. The
Capture of Eichmann 2. West German Reactions 3. Mengele and the Statute of
Limitations Debate 4. Extradition Proceedings During the 1960s III. Nazi
Hunting as Political Opposition 1. Recidivists in the Service of South
America's Dictators 2. Military Junta and Nazi Extradition 3. Klaus Barbie
and Bolivia's Democratization 4. Democrats and Nazi Hunters IV. Two Ways of
Dealing with State Atrocities 1. Menem's Amnesty Laws and the Nazi Past 2.
Argentina and the looted Gold Debate in the 1990s, Conclusion,
Acknowledgements, Overview of the Most Important Manhunts and Extradition
Proceedings, Sources and Literature, Abbreviations.