Citizen 865 : the hunt for Hitler's hidden soldiers in America / Debbie Cenziper.

First edition.

New York : Hachette Books, 2019.

xvii, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a detailed Nazi roster from 1945 that no Western investigator had ever seen. The dusty document, containing more than 700 names, helped unravel the details behind one of the most skilful mass murder operations in World War Two. In the tiny Polish village of Trawniki, the SS built a training camp for murder and then recruited an army of foot soldiers, 5,000 men strong, to annihilate the Jewish population of occupied Poland. After the war, some of these men vanished, making their way to the U.S. and blending into immigrant communities in cities and suburbs across America. 'Citizen 865' is an account of the lawyers and historians at the U.S. Department of Justice who, up against the forces of time and political opposition, battled to identify these men and hold them accountable for their unspeakable crimes.

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