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The Hidden Nazi

By: Dean Reuter, Colm Lowery, Keith Chester
Narrated by: Traber Burns
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He's the worst Nazi war criminal you've never heard of

Sidekick 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. 

©2019 Dean Reuter, Dr. Colm Lowery, and Keith Chester (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

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Factual.

Interesting read, well researched by all 3 involved. Confirms that Governments like the US,USSR & Poms will protect evil characters for their own gain even though they deserved death.

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Tantalising, fascinating, frustrating

The book is a well-informed and well-researched plunge into an exceedingly dark chapter of history. Many already are aware of the complicity of the US Government in aiding and abetting wanted Nazi criminals at the war's end, this book however has surprises in store even for those already well informed. While the narrative does get lost in the weeds for a chapter or two, the depth of research is worth persevering for, and the narrative performance is excellent.

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just when you thought...

lots of facts a sniff of fiction and a whole lot of joining up the dot's, a disturbing reminder of how ever evil you are people will over look this if you have something they want , and the Americans wanted everything the nazis had and were ahead of them in Science and weaponry the price in evil meant nothing .

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Like an unsolved murder. Unfulfilling

what a waste of time. I stuck it out waiting for a block buster finish. It didn't come. Much speculation and what if's. May have happened but ....no conclusion

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Informative

Found his very informative as to people who played a big part in this period of time. How they looked after themselves and got away with their crimes. Plus how they have helped change science and technology today. I did enjoy.

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Very interesting

A new and and very thought provoking insight into one of Germany's worst and mostly unheard of Nazis. This book has tied up alot of loose ends as to events that happened around the end of WW2 that up until now have been well examined but poorly explained. I read alot of books about WW2 and very rarely learn or hear something new, That is not the case with this one. clearly alot of research has gone into this and it is well worth the listen.

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The Author gives off the perception through his writing of being an over enthusiastic World War Two follower. His comments made throughout the book loose the readers trust in his work as an historical piece and make one feel as though he entered this project with some well entrenched views. Comments such as ‘wanting to get out of the interview alive’ when talking to an old man on his sick bed whose father was a NAZI criminal that the son barely knew.
Shows an unwelcome level of added emotion and drama in an historical text.

Stating that the son saying that his father visited him seemed out of place as ‘a father lives with a family and does not simply visit them’ again adds an unneeded perspective from the author. My father was in the military and when deployed for a year he ‘visited’ the family twice.

I having read a number of historical books and I had a hard time with this one. I didn’t find it to be overly enjoyable as the trust in the Author was lost at the beginning. Although this style may be suited to some and I encourage people to try it first as it does provide a different insight.

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