On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the liberation of the victims from the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945, we invite you to an evening of lectures.
After the war ended, countless leaders of the Nazis fled to the remotest corners of the world. They often had high-profile helpers to escape: the Vatican or the "Red Cross". Hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials chose the route via Italy to South America. Among them were Holocaust co-organizer Adolf Eichmann, concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele, and Franz Stangel, office manager at the Hartheim death camp. In his book "Nazis on the run" (2008), the historian Gerald Steinacher from South Tyrol has meticulously traced these escape routes.
An event of the VÖGB (Association of Austrian Trade Union Education) in cooperation with: Jewish Museum Hohenems, Renner Institute Vorarlberg, Die Grüne Bildungswerkstatt, Women's Museum Hittisau, Working Group Christianity and Social Democracy, Johann-August-Malin-Society, erinnern.at, Katholisches Bildungswerk Vorarlberg
The book:
Nazis on the run:
How war criminals escaped overseas via Italy
by Gerald Steinacher
Studienverlag, 380 pages, paperback, series: Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte, Volume: 26, ISBN: 978-3-7065-4026-1, EUR 29.90
Source: Jewish Museum Hohenems