When new employee John Loftus first arrived at the Office of Special Investigations, a component of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice formed to track down some of the thousands of war criminals who had entered the country after World War II, his supervisor greeted him – so he reports in his 2010 book ‘America’s Nazi Secret’ – by saying, ‘Welcome to the Department of Justice. You now represent the most corrupt client in the world: the United States government.’ An exaggeration, perhaps, but it’s a judgment replicated in many ways in Richard Rashke’s ‘Useful Enemies: John Demjanjuk and America’s Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals,’ a meticulously researched study explaining how the U.S.A. deliberately allowed Nazi war criminals to enter the country while ignoring their complicity in mass murder and torture. Several thousand SS and SD officers, Gestapo officers, agents, and chiefs, Abwehr intelligence officers, Nazi propagandists and scientists, Einsatzcommandos, Waffen-SS volunteers, Vlasov’s legions, Nazi quislings and ethnic cleansers – all were welcomed and protected. [Rest of content formatted similarly…]