The Hidden Nazi, Dean Reuter
The Hidden Nazi, Dean Reuter
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The Hidden Nazi
The Untold Story of America’s Deal with the Devil

Author: Dean Reuter, Colm Lowery, Keith Chester

Narrator: Traber Burns

Unabridged: 12 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/08/2019


Synopsis

He’s the worst Nazi war criminal you’ve never heard ofSidekick to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and supervisor of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, General Hans Kammler was responsible for the construction of Hitler’s slave labor sites and concentration camps. He personally altered the design of Auschwitz to increase crowding, ensuring that epidemic diseases would complement the work of the gas chambers.Why has the world forgotten this monster? Kammler was declared dead after the war. But the aide who testified to Kammler’s supposed “suicide” never produced the general’s dog tags or any other proof of death.Dean Reuter, Colm Lowery, and Keith Chester have spent decades on the trail of the elusive Kammler, uncovering documents unseen since the 1940s and visiting the purported site of Kammler’s death, now in the Czech Republic.Their astonishing discovery: US government documents prove that Hans Kammler was in American custody for months after the war—well after his officially declared suicide.And what happened to him after that? Kammler was kept out of public view, never indicted or tried, but to what end? Did he cooperate with Nuremberg prosecutors investigating Nazi war crimes? Was he protected so the United States could benefit from his intimate knowledge of the Nazi rocket program and Germany’s secret weapons?The Hidden Nazi is true history more harrowing—and shocking—than the most thrilling fiction.

About Dean Reuter

Dean Reuter is general counsel and vice president and director of the Practice Groups of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy. He has served in two federal government agency offices of the Inspector General, as counsel to the Inspector General and deputy inspector general, responsible for policing the use of federal funds granted and contracted through those agencies. As such, he helped conduct and oversee criminal investigations across the country. He is the editor of two books, Liberty’s Nemesis: The Unchecked Expansion of the State and Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security. He earned a BA degree with honors from Hood College and graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law. He is licensed to practice in Maryland, Virginia, and Illinois.

About Colm Lowery

Colm Lowery is an award-winning lecturer in biomedical science at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland, where he lectures in molecular biology and its application to biowarfare and bioterrorism. He has published over forty peer-reviewed scientific papers, book chapters, and review articles.

About Keith Chester

Keith Chester is an investigative researcher and author. In 1999, he began researching aerial phenomena reported by Allied military pilots during the Second World War, an effort that culminated in the publication of Strange Company in 2007—the same year his focus turned to the mystery surrounding SS general Hans Kammler.

About Traber Burns

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie on November 20, 2019

Why should this information still be kept under wraps? I can’t see any reason why after many years beyond the end of the war. Very good read and a lot of detail to prove their points. Makes one think about what else is still not readily available.......more

Goodreads review by Dave on July 11, 2020

I've been a reader and researcher of modern history for forty years and my main interest is in World War Two. The Hidden Nazi by Dean Reuter tells the incredible true story of a deal the US government made with SS General Hans Kammler at the end of WW2 - granting him immunity from prosecution as a w......more

Goodreads review by Martin on February 25, 2020

I have been reading World War Two books for some 35 plus years. I teach World War Two history for a living and this is without doubt one of the best books I have read in a very long time. Most World War Two history books these days are, unfortunately, just a rehash of previous publications and this......more

Goodreads review by Malaise on January 23, 2020

i was so excited to read this book heard dean reuter being interviewed about it and sounded just my speed not only as someone who lost family during the holocaust but as a person interested in history the case the book presents is completely circumstantial the so called proof can be proof of about anyth......more

Goodreads review by David W Stevens on October 16, 2019

Very Dry Read While this book is seemingly well researched, it only disproves a few relatively minor points and spends way to much time speculating. As far as this reader is concerned, the “Untold Story” remains mainly conjecture.......more


Quotes

“Justice delayed is justice denied? Not in this case. At long last, and at the skillful hands of Dean Reuter, a particularly nasty Nazi has been brought before the bar of history for a lasting sort of justice—the measured but stern judgment of a meticulous historian.” George F. Will, Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist

The Hidden Nazi is a revelation: a spellbinding, at times harrowing new history of an epoch we thought had been covered from every angle, trained on as ingenious and monstrous a villain as total, global war could produce—Hans Kammler.” Andrew C. McCarthy, former federal prosecutor and author of Willful Blindness

“Reuter, Lowery, and Chester probe one of the enduring mysteries of World War II…This is a riveting look into the awful trade-off between pragmatism and justice.” Amity Shlaes, author of Germany: The Empire Within