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Hitler's Bounty Hunters: The Betrayal of the Jews

By Ad van Liempt , S. J. Lienbach

Book information

Publisher
Berg Publishers
Year
2005
ISBN
9781845202026, 1845202023
LCC
D802.N4 L5413 2005
Open Library ID
OL22623305M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1070181 bytes)
Pages
288\288
Topic
History
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

In Hitler's Bounty Hunters, investigative journalist Ad van Liempt pulls back the curtain on the shocking practice of bounty hunters and their roles in the Holocaust. These bounty hunters rounded up over 9,000 Jewish citizens for the Nazis, sometimes chasing families across hundreds of miles for their reward. Most of the bounty hunters were ordinary citizens, not forced into service by the Germans or even ideologically aligned with them, but simply men and women looking for some cash and power. Van Liempt examines the careers of bounty hunters in great detail, telling the stories behind their hunts. He also investigates the bounty hunters' claim in court that they did not know what happened to their victims after they had delivered them to the Nazis. This haunting book uncovers a facet of the Holocaust that has virtually been overlooked by historians until now.

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