num_pages: 307
description: Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught including the notorious SS leader Heinrich Himmler. Others however evaded capture through a sophisticated Nazi organization designed to hide them. Among those war criminals were Josef Mengele the Angel of Death who performed hideous medical experiments at Auschwitz; Martin Bormann Hitler's brutal personal secretary; Klaus Barbie the cruel Butcher of Lyon; and perhaps the most awful Nazi of all: Adolf Eichmann.Killing the SS is the epic saga of the espionage and daring waged by self-styled Nazi hunters. This determined and disparate group included a French husband and wife team an American lawyer who served in the army on D-Day a German prosecutor who had signed an oath to the Nazi Party Israeli Mossad agents and a death camp survivor. Over decades these men and women scoured the world tracking down the SS fugitives and bringing them to justice which often meant death.Written in the fast-paced style of the Killing series Killing the SS will educate and stun the reader.The final chapter is truly shocking.
language: English
title: Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.