num_pages: 196
description: THE BELARUS THE NAZI CONNECTION IN AMERICA is the first full account of an extraordinary clandestine operation carried out in direct defiance of presidential orders. The book reveals how after World War II the United States government illegally permitted the entry into America of Nazis from Eastern Europe. Unknown to Congress, the American public, and even President Truman, these war criminals were recruited for guerrilla warfare inside the Soviet bloc and, in return, were granted immunity. When those operations collapsed the collaborationists were brought into the United States and allowed to settle here. This extraordinary story made the headlines across the nation I 1982 when it was featured on 60 Minutes. In THE BELARUS SECRET, John Loftus brings to light the bloodstained careers of, among others - Radislaw Ostrowsky, the highest ranking Nazi ever to receive American citizenship; Franz Kushel, police commander of Byelorussia. His recruits transported over 40,000 men to an execution ground in 1941; and Emanuel Jasluk, wartime mayor of Kletsk, who supervised the killing of more than 5,000 Jews in a single day. All of these men, Loftus reports, lived out their latter days as American citizens. THE BELARUS SECRET reveals how, as recently as 1978, government departments were lying to Congress about the incrimination files, how intelligence agencies refused to share vital information about emigrant Nazis; how the FBA recruited Nazis to spy on the CIA. Loftus also warns that similar smuggling networks exist today which permit war criminals from all over the world to find sanctuary in America.
language: English
title: The Belarus Secret: The Nazi Connection in America
titlecomplete: The Belarus Secret: The Nazi Connection in America
genres: Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 28
publisher: Paragon House