Koenig Alexa - Hiding in plain sight: the pursuit of war criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror

Foremost among those who helped us bring this project to fruition is Jonathan Cobb, our friend and editor (though that may be an oxymoron), who shepherded our prose with acumen and compassion and kept it from wandering into unchartered territory. Five years ago, Darian Swig and David Keller helped us begin our research by providing a generous start-up grant. Jonathan Silvers of Saybrook Productions kindly shared transcripts from his PBS documentaries Elusive Justice: The Search for Nazi War Criminals and Dead Reckoning: Postwar Justice from World War II to the War on Terror . UC Berkeley students Peggy ODonnell and Aynur Jafar helped with research and fact-checking. Andrea Lampros, the communications manager for the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley, provided invaluable assistance in securing funding, photographs, and artwork.

Victor Peskin wishes to thank the Melikian Center and the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University for funding portions of his research for this book. He is particularly grateful to Professor Yuval Shany and his research project, Assessing the Conditions for Effective International Adjudication, at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem for a sabbatical fellowship year that provided time for writing and intellectual engagement.

Eric Stover wishes to thank the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation of UC San Diego for their generous support of his research for this book.

Alexa Koenig wishes to thank the American Association of University Women for its financial support while she was researching this project and her dissertation.

In addition to Andrea Lampros, our colleagues at the Human Rights CenterAlexey Berlind, Camille Crittenden, Julie Freccero, Keith Hiatt, Julie Lagarde, Kat Madrigal, Cristin Orrego, Stephen Smith Cody, and Kim Thuy Seelingerwere always available to give us sage advice and encouragement. A special thanks to Kevin Reyes for proofreading parts of the manuscript. We are indebted to Naomi Schneider at University of California Press and our copyeditor, Roy Sablosky, for guiding this project to port.

We applied a wide range of research methods in our study of the pursuit of war criminals since the end of World War II. Using a semi-structured questionnaire, we conducted in-depth interviews with more than a hundred historians, judges, prosecutors, investigators, journalists, human rights activists, legal scholars, government officials, UN administrators, victims of war crimes, and family members of suspects. We also read widely, relying as much as possible on primary documents and first-person narratives. Several books were particularly helpful to us and deserve special mention: Guy Walters, Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped Justice & The Quest to Bring Them to Justice ; Richard Breitman, Norman J. W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, and Robert Wolfe (eds.), US Intelligence and the Nazis ; Richard P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan ; David Scheffer, All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals ; David Rohde, Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of SrebrenicaEuropes Worst Massacre Since World War II ; Romo Dallaire, Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda ; Thierry Cruvellier, Court of Remorse: Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ; Carla Del Ponte and Chuck Sudetic, Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanitys Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity ; Benjamin N. Schiff, Building the International Criminal Court ; Luc Reydams, Jan Wouters, and Cedric Ryngaert (eds.), International Prosecutors ; Christophe Paulussen, Male Captus, Bene Detenus: Surrendering Suspects to the International Criminal Court ; Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals; and Jess Bravin, Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantnamo Bay . We highly recommend these books to anyone wishing to pursue a deeper analysis of this topic.

Finally, we wish to thank our families for their unwavering patience and support during our many years of research and writing.