Monday, May 30, 2016

Elliot's Book of Nazis



My father-in-law was a Nazi hunter, a professional Nazi hunter. He was paid to be a Nazi hunter. He was determined and methodical.  In the mid 1990's, before the internet's pervasive content emergence, he gained access to the German military archives.  He came away with numerous volumes including copies of the Reich's own complete listing of SS officers. These phone book sized bound volumes have names, ranks, serial numbers, assignments - all of it. Thousands of names of officers assigned to some of the most infamous places in history.

Elliot's book of Nazis is evidence,  not indictment. It is, however,  proof of history. Something inceasingly at risk and fragile.

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