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"The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America's Deal with the Devil"
An intriguing new book from Dean Reuter, Colm Lowery, and Keith Chester
I recently started to read "The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America's Deal with the Devil" by Dean Reuter, Colm Lowery, and Keith Chester. I'm already hooked. Here is the synopsis:
He's the worst Nazi war criminal you've never heard of
Sidekick to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and supervisor of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, General Hans Kammler was responsible for the construction of Hitler's slave labor sites and concentration camps. He personally altered the design of Auschwitz to increase crowding, ensuring that epidemic diseases would complement the work of the gas chambers.
Why has the world forgotten this monster? Kammler was declared dead after the war. But the aide who testified to Kammler's supposed "suicide" never produced the general's dog tags or any other proof of death.
Dean Reuter, Colm Lowery, and Keith Chester have spent decades on the trail of the elusive Kammler, uncovering documents unseen since the 1940s and visiting the purported site of Kammler's death, now in the Czech Republic.
Their astonishing discovery: US government documents prove that Hans Kammler was in American custody for months after the war—well after his officially declared suicide.
And what happened to him after that? Kammler was kept out of public view, never indicted or tried, but to what end? Did he cooperate with Nuremberg prosecutors investigating Nazi war crimes? Was he protected so the United States could benefit from his intimate knowledge of the Nazi rocket program and Germany's secret weapons?
The Hidden Nazi is true history more harrowing—and shocking—than the most thrilling fiction.
I won't give any more spoilers. Check it out!
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It is really about Donald Trump being a nazi, right?
It’s a Regnery offering from a Federalist Society executive, recommended by a Republican climber. That says “anti-Trump” to you?
Nonsense – Regnery, the Federalist Society, and the Republicans are nazis themselves, they would never expose the secrets of a comrade, even a dead one.
Unless they were in love with Ingrid Bergman.
Crazy that the mere mention of a Nazi (and the suggestion that what he did was bad) launches the Trump Defense Squad into action.
So Hans Landa. Now we know where Tarantino got the idea from.
Attendez la crème
Don’t even get me started on the secret Nazi base on the dark side of the moon.
Don’t get me started on the error of calling the Far Side of the Moon the Dark Side of the Mon when they both get sunshine for the 14 earth days of the moon “day” and 14 days of darkeness of the moon “night”.
The far side of the moon doesn’t get any earthshine which is sad. Lamentable in fact.
Pink Floyd was a respected scientific authority and would never mislead me.
One of the things I loved about the original VC was the occasional book recommendations. Most of the books mentioned nowadays are either books written by conspirators (not surprising), or polemics that advance one political position or another.
This book sounds very interesting, and I hope this feature (ie, suggesting things to read) becomes more popular again.
I miss movie the recommendations.
Is there a flying saucer at the end of this trail?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro