''Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice'' is book by

Gerald Steinacher Gerald Steinacher (born 2 September 1970) is Professor of History and Hymen Rosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After serving at the South Tyrolean Regional Archives in Bozen, he was a Joseph A. Schumpeter ...

, it was first published in German in 2008 with the title ''Nazis auf der Flucht. Wie Kriegsverbrecher über Italien nach Übersee entkamen'' it was published in English in 2011. In this work, Steinacher compiles evidence from declassified

International Committee of the Red Cross The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC; french: Comité international de la Croix-Rouge) is a humanitarian organization which is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and it is also a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. State parties (signato ...

and

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documents that demonstrate the ways that the Catholic Church, the

and

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, as represented by the

Office of Strategic Services The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the intelligence agency of the United States during World War II. The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branc ...

(O.S.S.), the precursor to the

CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian intelligence agency, foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gat ...

, aided Nazi war criminals in their escape from Europe and retribution for their crimes against humanity. In light of this evidence, Steinacher further analyzes these three major institutions (the ICRC, the US government and the Catholic Church) aided Nazi war criminals in their escape from Justice. In many ways, Steinacher argues, the threat of the spread of Communism provided an impulse for the US government and the Catholic Church to aid Nazis who might potentially become new allies in their war against Godless Communism. As Steinacher writes, "In this context, underground networks born of the collaboration between the ICRC and the Catholic Church to help Nazis escape became useful to the Allies themselves." Initially published in English by Oxford University Press in 2011, the book was later published in multiple languages. In 2011 the book was awarded the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category.

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