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by: Uki Goni
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1380922
EAN: 9781862075528
ISBN: 1862075522
Label: Granta UK
Manufacturer: Granta UK
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 410
Publication Date: January 01, 2003
Publisher: Granta UK
Sales Rank: 151827
Studio: Granta UK
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Drawing on American and European intelligence documents, Uki Goni shows how from 1946 onward a Nazi escape operation was based at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, harboring such war criminals as Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele. Goni uncovers an elaborate network that relied on the complicity of the Vatican, the Argentine Catholic Church, and the Swiss authorities. The discoveries made in this meticulously researched book reveal the entangled web of the Nazi regime and its sympathizers and has prompted Argentine officials to demand closed files on the Nazi era from their current government.
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Rating: - Good read
Great book on the tie of Argentina to Hitlers Germany during WWII. Excelelnt insight into how the criminals were tracked down and why. Good stuff and very interesting.
Rating:  - As reviewed in 'Foreign Affairs' January/February 2003
The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron's Argentina. Uki Goni. New York: Granta Books, 2002, 382 pp. $29.95.
Reviewed by Kenneth Maxwell, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2003
A chilling, detailed story of one of Argentina's most shameful secrets: the enthusiastic role of dictator Juan Peron in providing cover for major Nazi war criminals as the Third Reich collapsed, allowing them to lead prosperous and protected lives after the war. Few characters get off easily ... Read More
Rating:  - Very interesting subject, horribly written
I was really interested in reading this book, honestly. But it is so poorly written that I gave up after 30 pages or so. I don't care if it's important stuff, true or whatever. If the writer can't get the job done of explaining it he should leave it to somebody else. It seems he just poured his notes from his journal on the paper in a chronological order, with no overall plan.
I give it a second star for the subject matter. If it was for the telling I'd want my money back.
Rating: - The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
A very interesting book. A subject by which I have always been fascinated.
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