Gerald Steinacher: 6 books

Book cover of Nazis on the Run

Nazis on the Run

How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice

by Gerald Steinacher
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012

This is the story of how Nazi war criminals escaped from justice at the end of the Second World War by fleeing through the Tyrolean Alps to Italian seaports, and the role played by the Red Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services of the major powers in smuggling them away from prosecution in Europe...
Book cover of Les nazis en fuite
by Gerald STEINACHER
Language: French
Release Date: February 12, 2015

Comment certains sbires d'Hitler ont-ils échappé à la justice après la chute du III Reich ? Pour la première fois, les filières d'évasion, et les responsabilités du Vatican, de la Croix-Rouge et de la CIA sont dévoilées. Entre la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et le début des...
Book cover of Hakenkreuz und Rotes Kreuz

Hakenkreuz und Rotes Kreuz

Eine humanitäre Organisation zwischen Holocaust und Flüchtlingsproblematik

by Gerald Steinacher
Language: German
Release Date: September 2, 2013

Mit seiner 150-jährigen Geschichte gehört das Internationale Komitee vom Roten Kreuz (IKRK) besonders in Kriegszeiten zu den ältesten und aktivsten Hilfsorganisationen. Die wertvolle Hilfeleistung des IKRK für Millionen Verwundete und Kriegsgefangene im Zweiten Weltkrieg steht außer Zweifel,...
Book cover of Humanitarians at War

Humanitarians at War

The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust

by Gerald Steinacher
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017

The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is one of the world's oldest, most prominent, and revered aid organizations. But at the end of World War II things could not have looked more different. Under fire for its failure to speak out against the Holocaust or to extend substantial...
Book cover of A Nazi Past

A Nazi Past

Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe

by Daniel E. Rogers, Katrin Paehler, Hillary C. Earl
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015

Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war. While most studies have focused on the high-level figures who were tried at Nuremberg, much less is known about the hundreds of SS members, party...
Book cover of Meine Erlebnisse in russischer Gefangenschaft
by Johann Raffeiner, Gerald Steinacher
Language: German
Release Date: February 5, 2015

»Endlich ein SS-tauglicher Arier! Ab mit ihm an die Front!« So lautet die zynische Botschaft der Musterungsbehörde für Hans Raffeiner im Mai des Jahres 1944. Der erst 17-Jährige aus Laas im Vinschgau kommt nach Prag, sein Versuch, bei Kriegsende in die Hände der Amerikaner zu gelangen, scheitert....
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