In the 1970s news broke that former Nazis had escaped
prosecution and were living the good life in the United States.
Outrage swept the nation, and the public outcry put extreme
pressure on the U.S. government to investigate these claims and to
deport offenders. The subsequent creation of the Office of Special
Investigations marked the official beginning of Nazi-hunting in the
United States, but it was far from the end. Thirty years later, in
November 2010, the New York Times obtained a copy of a confidential
2006 report by the Justice Department titled "The Office of Special
Investigations: Striving for Accountability in the Aftermath of the
Holocaust." The six-hundred-page report held shocking secrets
regarding the government's botched attempts to hunt down and
prosecute Nazis in the United States and its willingness to harbor
and even employ these criminals after World War II. Drawing from
this report as well as other sources, Spies, Lies, and Citizenship
exposes scandalous new information about infamous Nazi
perpetrators, including Andrija Artuković, Klaus Barbie, and Arthur
Rudolph, who were sheltered and protected in the United States and
beyond, and the ongoing attempts to bring the remaining Nazis, such
as Josef Mengele, to justice.