Table of Contents

Preface Introduction PART ONE: A SURFEIT OF SPIES CHAPTER ONE:Shifting Alliances Scarface Endgames A Critical Hiatus Gehlen's Gambit The U.S. Army's ODESSA File CHAPTER TWO: The Seesaw Strategy Hitler's Bodyguard Restoration Exile in Madrid Playing the Eastern Card The Spook Who Never Returned Golden Handcuffs CHAPTER THREE: Neo-Nazi Diaspora Wotan at the Funny Farm The Man with Many Aliases European Liberation Front Rumblings from Prague The Flying Ace PART TWO: POLITICAL SOLDIERS CHAPTER FOUR: The Swastika and the Crescent Coup d'Etat in Cairo A Mecca for Fascists Double-Agent Intrigue The Wrath of the Red Hand Trials and Tribulations CHAPTER FIVE: Nostalgics and Revisionists Cult of the Inquisitor White Power Politics The China Option Flirting with the Left Twilight of the Idols CHAPTER SIX: A Gathering Storm Breaking a Taboo Armies of the Right New Right with an Old Twist Browns and Greens The Politics of Denial Before the Deluge PART THREE: POST-COLD WAR FASCISM CHAPTER SEVEN: Germany Reunited Catharsis Paramilitaries and Poison Gas Groomed to Be Führer Cadre Building The Deutsche Mob Capitulation CHAPTER EIGHT: Shadow Over the East Prussia Lives! Territorial Imperative The Balkan Furnace Courting Mother Russia Here Come the National Bolsheviks Dreaming of a New Rapallo CHAPTER NINE: From the Margins to the Mainstream Playing with Fire Aryan Machinations The Road to Oklahoma City Onward Christian Patriots Pity the Poor Immigrant Fifty Years After CONCLUSION Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Martin A. Lee is the co-author, with Norman Soloman, of Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias In NewsMedia and the author of Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and theSixties Rebellion. Interviewed as an expert on terrorism, espionage, and media issues, Lee has been a guest on CBS's 48 Hours, CNN's International Hour, CNBC, MSNBC, and NPR's Fresh Air. His articles have been published in numerous outlets including Los AngelesTimes, Rolling Stone, Miami Herald, The Nation, VillageVoice, Christian Science Monitor, San FranciscoChronicle, Baltimore Sun, Mother Jones, and Spin.

Reviews

"A vivid survey of fascist resurgence." -- New York TimesBook Review
"An important book. . . The best-documented account of the fluctuating fortunes of the far-right in Europe and America in the late 20th century." -- Conor Cruise O'Brien
"Lee delineates more thoroughly than any previous writer the complex connections between survivor Nazi organizations and postwar neofascist movements in Europe and the United States. A well-documented and much-needed warning." -- Daniel L. Wick, San Francisco Chronicle
"In this powerful work of research and discovery, Martin A. Lee reveals more of the beast and its origins than has ever been seen before." -- Andrei Codrescu
"Lee provides a lively, journalistic account of those who seek the revival of the Fascist and Nazi dictatorships." -- Choice
"This compelling, intelligent investigation, which reads more like a thriller than a history lesson, contributes much toward understanding the politics of hatred." -- Publishers Weekly

After the Berlin Wall came down, images of emancipated Germans were soon replaced by footage of neo-Nazi skinheads torching immigrant hostels while raising their arms in Hitlerian salute. It appeared that the beast of fascism, thought to have been dead for almost half a century, had come back to life. Through meticulous research and more than 100 interviews, Lee (Acid Dreams) reveals that the beast only catnapped after WWII. Starting with the failed assassination attempt on the Führer in July 1944, Lee traces the splinter groups, fascist leaders and political movements that formed a complex network of ratlines and spy webs enabling expatriate Nazis to build fortunes and mold fledgling extremists. Lee skillfully forms his material into a coherent, often chilling account that opens with the tale of Otto Skorzeny, the ex-Nazi who became a major figure in Cold War espionage. The closing exploration of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and America's militia movement casts new light on seemingly overexposed topics and helps to illuminate the fascist agendas of shadowy organizations in the U.S. such as the Holocaust-denying Liberty Lobby. This compelling, intelligent investigation, which reads more like a thriller than a history lesson, contributes much toward understanding the politics of hatred. Photos not seen by PW. (July)

"A vivid survey of fascist resurgence." -- New York TimesBook Review
"An important book. . . The best-documented account of the fluctuating fortunes of the far-right in Europe and America in the late 20th century." -- Conor Cruise O'Brien
"Lee delineates more thoroughly than any previous writer the complex connections between survivor Nazi organizations and postwar neofascist movements in Europe and the United States. A well-documented and much-needed warning." -- Daniel L. Wick, San Francisco Chronicle
"In this powerful work of research and discovery, Martin A. Lee reveals more of the beast and its origins than has ever been seen before." -- Andrei Codrescu
"Lee provides a lively, journalistic account of those who seek the revival of the Fascist and Nazi dictatorships." -- Choice
"This compelling, intelligent investigation, which reads more like a thriller than a history lesson, contributes much toward understanding the politics of hatred." -- Publishers Weekly