Authors: Uki Goni
ISBN-13: 9781862075528, ISBN-10: 1862075522
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Granta UK
Date Published: October 2002
Edition: Reprint
Drawing on American and European intelligence documents, Uki Goni shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi escape operation was based at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, harboring such war criminals as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele. Goni uncovers an elaborate network that relied on the complicity of the Vatican, the Argentine Catholic Church, and the Swiss authorities. The discoveries made in this meticulously researched book reveal the entangled web of the Nazi regime and its sympathizers and has prompted Argentine officials to demand closed files on the Nazi era from their current government.
Acknowledgements | vii | |
Abbreviations | ix | |
Key Players | xi | |
Foreword | xix | |
1 | War Games | 1 |
2 | Peron Leaps to Power | 16 |
3 | Undesirable Immigration | 25 |
4 | The Abandonment of Argentina's Jews | 45 |
5 | Extortion of the Jews | 51 |
6 | The Nazi Escape Begins | 63 |
7 | Cardinal Recommendations | 93 |
8 | Peron's Odessa | 100 |
9 | Digging for Clues | 116 |
10 | Criminal Ways | 122 |
11 | The Nordic Route | 128 |
12 | The Swiss Connection | 136 |
13 | The Belgian Way | 163 |
14 | The Slovak Committee | 193 |
15 | Flight of the Ustashi | 200 |
16 | A Roman 'Sanctuary' | 229 |
17 | Erich Priebke | 252 |
18 | Gerhard Bohne | 266 |
19 | Josef Schwammberger | 273 |
20 | Josef Mengele | 279 |
21 | Adolf Eichmann | 292 |
Conclusion | 320 | |
Afterword | 327 | |
Notes | 349 | |
Documentary Sources | 390 | |
Bibliography | 392 | |
Index | 401 |