Norman J. W. Goda (born April 25, 1961) is an American historian specialised in the history of

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and the

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. He is a professor of history at the

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, where he is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies. Goda is the author of several books on the international policy of

, the Holocaust, and the

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. He also serves as a historical consultant for the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group of the United States

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, tasked with reviewing the previously-classified intelligence documents of

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Historian

Goda is the co-author of the book ''U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis'', which was published in 2005 by

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and based on materials that were declassified under the 1998

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. Reviewing the book in the journal ''

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'', the historian

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called the book "remarkable" and noted that book "sheds new light on three controversial aspects of the war and post-war period:" how much US intelligence organisations knew about the

, the crimes of individual Nazi perpetrators, and the "extent to which US intelligence knowingly collaborated with war criminals during the cold war." Casey noted:

Breitman et al. have used these eclassified documentsto write a series of measured case studies, which, unsurprisingly, confirm that many post-war exculpatory accounts by leading Nazis were highly misleading. Indeed, whereas figures such as SD Intelligence Chief Walter Schellenberg sought to depict themselves as reluctant Nazis who had tried their best to save the lives of concentration camp victims or to bring the war to a swift conclusion, the new documents confirm that they were actually ruthless individuals who not only had plenty of blood on their hands but also remained wedded if not to the Nazi cause then at least to their Nazi comrades long after May 1945.

Bibliography

* ''Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path Toward America'', Texas A&M University Press, 1998, . *''U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis'',

. 2005. With

Richard Breitman Richard David Breitman, born in 1947, is an American historian best known for his study of the Holocaust. Richard Breitman is an American historian who has written extensively on modern German history, the Holocaust, American immigration and refuge ...

Timothy Naftali Timothy Naftali is a Canadian-American historian who is clinical associate professor of public service at New York University. He has written four books, two of them co-authored with Alexander Fursenko on the Cuban Missile Crisis and Nikita Khrus ...

and

Robert Wolfe Robert Wolfe (March 2, 1921 – December 10, 2014) was a World War II U.S. Army officer, historian, and retired senior archivist of the US National Archives. He was wounded in both the Pacific and European Theaters of Operation. He commanded ...

. *'Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War'', Cambridge:

, 2007. . * "Black Marks Hitler's Bribery of his Senior Officers During World War II" pp. 96–137. In ''Corrupt Histories'', Emmanuel Kreike and William Jordan (eds), University of Rochester Press, 2005, . *''Jewish histories of the Holocaust: New Transnational Approaches'', Oxford:

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, 2014. With

Omer Bartov Omer Bartov (Hebrew: עֹמֶר בַּרְטוֹב; pronounced .html" ;"title="�oˈmer ˈbartov/nowiki>">�oˈmer ˈbartov/nowiki>; born 1954) is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and Profe ...

. .

References

Sources

External links

The CIA and Nazi War Criminals: National Security Archive Posts Secret CIA History Released Under Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act
via the

''U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis''
official web page via

''Jewish histories of the Holocaust: New Transnational Approaches''
official web page via

Breitman, Richard Richard David Breitman, born in 1947, is an American historian best known for his study of the Holocaust. Richard Breitman is an American historian who has written extensively on modern German history, the Holocaust, American immigration and refuge ...

, Goda, Norman: ''Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War'', Public domain
PDF
via

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