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Two shocking exposs of Nazi cruelty and international collusion from one of the finest investigative journalists (The Washington Times).
Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europes Jews and Holocaust Survivors
This riveting expos reveals the shocking truth about how the Swiss banking industry knowingly collaborated with the Third Reich during the darkest era in modern history. With the knowledge and acquiescence of the Swiss government, hundreds of millions of dollars stolen from Jewish Holocaust victims were systematically hidden away in Swiss bank accounts. For the next half century, Swiss authorities engaged in a covert campaign of lies, subterfuge, and corruption to hide the wealth from its rightful ownersconcentration camp survivors and the families of the slainwhile freely dispensing the illegally obtained funds to fugitive Nazis. Nazi Gold is an explosive account of state-endorsed crimes and atrocities; of former victims fighting courageously for their due in the face of prejudice, hatred, and indifference; and of the dedicated US Treasury agents who worked tirelessly for decades to right an unconscionable wrong.
Compelling [and] carefully researched. The Washington Times
Klaus Barbie: The Butcher of Lyons
In 1942, SS Gestapo chief Nikolaus Klaus Barbie was dispatched to Nazi-occupied France after leaving his bloodstained mark on the Netherlands. In Lyons, Barbie was entrusted with cleansing the region of Jews, French Resistance fighters, and Communists, an assignment he undertook with sadistic cruelty. Thousands died on Barbies orders. Following the D-Day invasion, Barbie fled, slaughtering all his prisoners. But the wars conclusion was not the end of the Butcher of Lyons. With the dawning of the Cold War, Barbie went on to find a new employer: the US intelligence services. He escaped to South America, where he lived a free man until extradited to France to finally stand trial for war crimes in 1983.
[A] taut, richly backgrounded story. Kirkus Reviews

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CONTENTS GLOSSARY BND Bundesnachrichtendienst the West German secret - photo 8
CONTENTS
GLOSSARY
BND
Bundesnachrichtendienst, the West German secret service
CDU
Christian Democratic Union, the largest conservative party in West Germany
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
CIC
Counter Intelligence Corps, US Army
CID
Criminal Investigation Department
CNR
Conseil National de la Rsistance, the co-ordinating committee of the Resistance established by Moulin
CROWCASS
Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects, based in Paris
DGER
Direction Gnrale des Etudes et Recherches, French organisation investigating Nazi war crimes
DGSE
Dirction Gnrale de la Suret Extrieure, the external security service of the French police
DST
Direction de la Suret du Territoire, the French equivalent of MI5
EUCOM
European command, the US military occupation authority in the US zone
FSM
French Security (Military), based in Baden-Baden in the French zone
HICOG
American High Commission for Germany, which replaced OMGUS, military government in the US zone
JAG
Judge Advocate General, the British/American army legal service
KPD
Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, the West German Communist Party
MNAT
Mouvement National Anti-Terroriste, anti-Resistance organisation set up by the Vichy government
MNR
Movimiento Nationalista Revolutionario, a Bolivian pro-Nazi party which has swung towards the centre in recent years
MUR
Mouvement Unis de la Rsistance
OMGUS
Office of Military Government (US), replaced by HICOG in September 1949
OSS
Office of Strategic Services, the American wartime foreign intelligence agency
PPF
Parti Populaire Franais, the French wartime Fascist party
RSHA
Reichsicherheitshauptamt, Himmlers head office
SD
Sicherheitsdienst, an elite organisation responsible for the Nazi Partys intelligence and security service
SDECE
Service de Documentation et de Contre-Espionage, the French equivalent of MI6
SED
Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, the East German Communist party
SHAEF
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force
SOE
Special Operations Executive, which co-ordinated British support for the Resistance
SOL
Service dOrdre Lgionnaire, a system of conscripted labour organised by the Germans in France
SS
Schutzstaffel, the guardians of the Nazi party
UGIF
Union Gnrale des Israelites de France, the Jewish federation established by the Germans in France
UNWCC
United Nations War Crimes Commission
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
For fifty years Klaus Barbie has worked for governments both officially and unofficially. He has served both democracy and dictatorship. The governments which hired him for his skills were never disappointed. Manipulation, interrogation, extraction, torture and murder were the services he offered, and they were purchased in the full knowledge that Barbie had considerable experience of his trade. Invariably, it is the same kind of politicians and officials as those who hired him, who now pay sanctimonious homage in mighty-sounding phrases to the cause of justice. Yet, since the end of the Second World War, they have, both implicitly and explicitly, protected him.
The return of Klaus Barbie to France on 5 February 1983 to be tried for his wartime crimes was the victorious culmination of an extraordinary campaign by Serge and Beate Klarsfeld against sceptical, lethargic and downright hostile government officials and politicians. With enormous effort, Serge Klarsfeld discovered many vital documents and eyewitnesses which revealed Barbies miserable career and which convinced governments finally that his continued freedom insulted too many people and ideals. Beate Klarsfeld devoted months, despite discomfort and hardship, to protest against what they both saw as the immorality of protecting a notorious criminal. Whether the course of justice will reward that effort remains to be seen. In writing this book, I am very grateful for all the help they have given me.
My investigation of the postwar treatment of Nazi war criminals began in 1978, when Christopher Capron, then editor of BBC Televisions Panorama programme, encouraged me to pursue what proved to be an unexplored area. The result has been several programmes on the subject which have been shown in more than twenty-five countries. He is now the head of the BBCs Current Affairs group and generously gave me permission to pursue this present saga. With equal goodwill, George Carey, then editor of Panorama, allowed me the time and gave me the necessary support to make two programmes about Barbie. The second (first broadcast in July 1983), revealing his American connections, was reported by Margaret Jay. She gave me important help and good advice. To all three, and to many other colleagues in Lime Grove, I am very indebted.
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