That’s the name of a book by Eric Lichtblau. I got the link from a thread that Stephen McIntyre did—and I highly recommend it. McIntyre’s account of
If you’re of a certain age, like I am, you’re familiar with the story that, following WW2, top Nazis ended up:
Tried for war crimes;
Hiding in Paraguay or Argentina or Brazil; and
A few got lucrative gigs as missile scientists for the winners of the war—US.
However, that’s not the end of the story. In a review of Lichtblau’s book (The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men) that McIntyre links, we learn the rest of the story:
‘The Nazis Next Door,’ by Eric Lichtblau
In the wake of World War II, America recruited a few leading German scientists in order to advance our space and military programs and to keep these valuable assets from falling into Soviet hands. This is the broadly accepted script about Nazis in America. In fact, as Eric Lichtblau, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, relates in “The Nazis Next Door,” we welcomed approximately 10,000 Nazis, some of whom had played pivotal roles in the genocide.
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America began reaching out to leading Nazis months before the Germans surrendered. In March 1945, while the war still raged, the American spy chief Allen Dulles conducted a friendly fireside chat in the library of a Zurich apartment with the Nazi general Karl Wolff, the closest associate of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler for much of the war. The Scotch-lubricated conversation convinced Dulles that Wolff, despite his ties to Himmler and his role as a leader of the Waffen SS, was a moderate who deserved protection. When prosecutors sought to try Wolff, one of the highest-ranking SS leaders to survive, at Nuremberg, Dulles worked to have his name removed from the list of defendants. While Wolff was in Allied custody, he was permitted to take a yacht trip, spend time with his family and carry a gun. Nonetheless, he complained that what he endured was “much more inhumane than the extermination of the Jews.” He said the Jews had been gassed in a few seconds, while he did not know how long he would be held. (His imprisonment lasted four years.)
The SS leader Heinrich Himmler, right, and his adjutant, Gen. Karl Wolff, in 1942.
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But we did not stop with scientists. The C.I.A. and the F.B.I. sought out spies and informants who had participated in genocide. For these agencies, engaging in murder was acceptable as long as the recruits did not lie about their record. Ultimately, most of these “informants” never provided any valuable information. Some even offered bogus reports.
But these intelligence agencies remained their greatest protectors. In the 1980s, when the Justice Department began to hunt war criminals who had lied in order to enter this country, both agencies actively obstructed the investigations. They were also protected by White House officials such as Pat Buchanan, then a top aide to Ronald Reagan, who denounced the Justice Department’s “revenge obsessed” and “hairy-chested Nazi hunters” as dupes of the Soviets. And the largest group of Nazis who entered America simply slipped in through “the back door,” according to Lichtblau. They gamed the system and immigrated as “refugees,” starting new lives as thousands of people perished in the Allied camps.
McIntyre covers quite a bit more, including the remarkable story of Adolf Heusinger. Heusinger:
served as the Operations Chief within general staff of the High Command of the German Army in the Nazi German Armed Forces from 1938 to 1944. He was then appointed acting Chief of the General Staff for two weeks in 1944 after his predecessor (Kurt Zeitzler) resigned his post because of a nervous breakdown.
Heusinger … later became a general for West Germany and served as head of the West German military from 1957 to 1961 as well as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1961 to 1964.
Oh!
And here’s an old photo of Heusinger that McIntyre includes—you may recognize at least one other person in the photo, in addition to Robert McNamara:
McIntyre points out, among other interesting facts, that Heusinger participated in much of the top level military planning for the Nazi regime, including military operations in the then Soviet Union. He is said to have been a key member of the (in)famous Gehlen Organization. Of course the Russians are fully aware of all of this rehabilitation of people who were responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people during WW2—which in no way absolves the Soviets for their own crimes.
All in all, it’s an interesting read.
Look there is first and foremost we, the USA, were amateurs as far as spying et al goes at that time. The techno hunt was justifiable as we didn't want their knowledge to fall to the Soviets and THAT was a very big deal that seems lost on many. I do wish someone involved would have given it all up so at l.east it would not be speculated on. Many wanted US to follow Patton's lead and rearm the Germans and march back into Russia, that was not going to happen either. We are always painted with a Diabolical intent, we had been thrust onto the front of the World stage and were not prepared and reacted to about everything rather than being out in front.
Eric Lichtblau is involved in the shenanigans of Fusion GPS about Alfa Bank and Trump.
See my new blog article:
https://people-who-did-not-see.blogspot.com/2022/05/fusion-gps-and-outside-computer-experts.html