Historian Danny Orbach has shed light on how the Mossad and Western forces used agents with a past in the Third Reich, protecting them in exchange for their cooperation in the unfolding confrontation with Communism.
In his review, historian F.Filippi writes (translated):"It is a truly complex and multifaceted picture that Fugitives presents, through which not only can one read the life parables of thousands of "orphans" of Hitler's death machine, but it is also possible to understand the difficulty, and often the failure, of the attempt by post-war European society to come to terms with the brutalities of totalitarianism.
A rank of chameleons who not only manage to avoid paying the price for the terrible crimes committed, but by changing sides at the right moment can continue to thrive by practicing the violence, double-dealing, and pettiness learned under the Reich.
A disheartening historical example, but also a warning for the future, given the current dramatic proliferation of conflicts that sooner or later will demand their own tribute of compromises, deceptions, silences, which every postwar period seems inevitably to demand."
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