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formation of,
94
,
95

former Nazis in government of,
195
,
213
(see also
Kiesinger, Kurt Georg)

Israeli representative in,
136
,
138

role in search for Mengele of,
297
,
298
,
301
–3

war crimes trials in,
xii
,
xiv
,
98
,
219
,
224
,
240
,
260
,
314
–16
(See also
Frankfurt, Auschwitz trial in)

West Point, U.S. Military Academy at,
38

Whipping of prisoners,
80
,
190
,
236
–37,
310

White, Elizabeth,
253

Wiegrefe, Klaus,
317

Wiesenthal
(Dugan),
231
–32

Wiesenthal, Cyla Müller,
31
,
32
,
110
,
112
,
114

Wiesenthal, Hillel,
31

Wiesenthal, Paulinka,
110
,
112
,
157
,
326

Wiesenthal, Simon,
36
,
63
,
89
,
108
–22,
242
,
280
–88,
304
,
320

anticommunism of,
233

background of,
31
–32

Braunsteiner located by,
xii
,
237
–39

death of,
326

extension of German statute of limitations for war crimes advocated by,
219

fugitive Nazis’ fear of,
292
–93

Gestapo officer who arrested Anne Frank located by,
234
–36

investigative work for U.S. Army intelligence units of,
108
–10

Israeli intelligence services and,
114
–15

on Jewish councils and Jewish police,
177
–78

Kreisky opposed by,
286
–87

Linz Documentation Center run by,
111
,
117
–18,
121
–22

at Mauthausen,
xi
,
30
–31,
33
–34,
111

memoirs of,
3
,
157
,
236

Mengele hunted by,
297
–98

role in hunt for Eichmann of,
xi
,
35
,
119
–22,
136
,
147
–48,
157
–59,
231

self-promotion by,
230
–32

survivors located by,
110
–11

in Waldheim controversy with World Jewish Congress,
xi
,
xv
,
254
,
270
–71,
273
–75,
280
–85,
287
–88,
321

Zionism and,
32
,
111
–13,
116

Will, Thomas,
196
,
322

Winchell, Walter,
106

Wittmann, Rebecca,
195

Wojak, Irmtrud,
123
–24,
126
,
127

Women in the Twentieth Century,
212

Woods, John C.,
11
,
13
–18,
23
,
60

World Jewish Congress (WJC),
xi
,
xv
,
121
,
243
,
254
,
266
–67,
271
,
273
–85,
287
–88

World War I,
31
,
77
,
78
,
91
,
125
,
164

World War II,
31
–32,
65
,
202
,
224
,
245
,
267
,
306
,
323

aftermath of,
18
,
24
,
28
,
32
–33,
46
,
103
,
117
,
119
,
128
–29,
225
–26,
231
,
293
(see also
Concentration camps, liberation of; Displaced persons; Germany, postwar)

armed forces in,
see
Army, U.S.; British Army; Red Army; SS; Wehrmacht

Catholic Church during,
112

commission of atrocities and war crimes during,
21
(see also names of war criminals and specific war crimes trials

end of,
3
,
11
,
23
,
28
,
36
,
91
,
114
,
128
,
187
,
323

final stage of,
22
–24,
32
,
66
,
84
,
119
,
131
,
234

Kiesinger during,
204
,
213

legacy of,
5

outbreak of,
65
,
70
,
207

prisoners of war during,
see
Prisoners of war

resistance during,
see
Resistance

U.S. intelligence service during,
90
–91,
103
–4

Waldheim during,
xv
,
266
,
268
–79,
282
–83,
285
–88,
321

Wrocław (Poland),
66

Wulkan, Emil,
187

Yad Vashem,
117
,
122
,
157
,
191

Yale University,
181

Yalta conference,
21

YouTube,
313

Yugoslavia,
xv
,
54
,
267
,
271
,
274
–76

ZDF television station,
292

Zeit, Die
(weekly),
205

Zelman, Leon,
267
–69,
281

Zhukov, Marshal Georgy,
22
,
24

Zim shipping lines,
149

Zinn, Georg-August,
139

Ziok, Ilona,
124
,
126
,
127
,
205

Zionism,
32
,
111
,
113
,
169
,
216
,
224
,
292

Zman
magazine,
184

Zuroff, Efraim,
xi
,
319
–22

Zyklon B gas,
82

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The Nazi hunters / Andrew Nagorski. — First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

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1. Nazi hunters—History. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Atrocities. 3. War criminals—Germany—History. 4. Fugitives from justice— Germany—History. 5. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945). I. Title.

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