Lov na zločince: Kako su nacistički ratni zločinci pobjegli i potraga da ih se privede pravdi

Guy Walters presents a research study on the escape, hiding and post-war persecution of Nazi war criminals after the end of World War II. Based on archival materials, diplomatic sources and testimonies, he reconstructs how individual high-ranking members of the Nazi regime managed to avoid arrest by using support networks, false identities and post-war transit routes through Europe.

Special emphasis is placed on the way in which the mechanisms of escape and hiding developed: instead of a single organization, it is a series of disconnected and often improvised channels that emerged in chaotic post-war circumstances. The author also analyzes the role of the Allied authorities, intelligence services and judicial institutions, which often acted in a fragmented and inconsistent manner due to political priorities and the onset of the Cold War.

The book critically examines both the work of individuals and groups who searched for Nazi fugitives for years, and the way in which media and popular portrayals shaped the image of a spectacular and systematically organized “Nazi hunt”. Walters shows that the actual process of bringing justice was slow, bureaucratic, and marked by numerous shortcomings.

The result is a historiographically informed analysis that separates myth from documented history and illustrates the complexity of post-war justice and its limitations in an international context.