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Nazis on the Run

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  • ABOUT Gerald Steinacher

    Gerald Steinacher, assistant professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, received his PhD in 1999 from the University of Innsbruck in Austria. He has been a research fellow at Harvard University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. His book Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice was published by Oxford University Press in 2011. Profile
  • ABOUT Gwen Macsai

    Gwen Macsai, host of Re:sound, is an award-winning writer, producer and humorist, whose radio work has aired on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition Saturday. She's also the creator of the television sitcom What About Joan starring Joan Cusack, and author of Lipshtick, a book of humorous first-person essays. Profile
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After World War II, thousands of Nazis and their collaborators evaded justice by escaping to the Americas, both North and South. Rumors circulated that a secret organization named “Odessa” was ferrying the Nazis out of Europe. But that was just a myth. The truth, though, is no less startling. As University of Nebraska historian Gerald Steinacher has uncovered in newly opened archives, the Red Cross, Vatican, and CIA all played a role, sometimes unwittingly, in the “ratline” from Germany to Italy and on to the New World. Join Steinacher as he discusses this extraordinary episode in 20th-century history with the Third Coast Audio Festival’s Gwen Macsai, herself the child of Holocaust survivors.

This program is presented in partnership with College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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