Higham,C. American Swastika. 1985
Higham, Charles. American Swastika. Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1985.
332 pages.
Charles Higham, a former New York Times correspondent, also wrote a
book on corporate America's ties to the Nazis from 1933-1949 titled
"Trading With the Enemy" (1983), but "American Swastika" is somewhat less
focused. It may have been written to utilize all the material he couldn't
fit into the earlier effort; each chapter in "American Swastika" is fairly
independent of the others.
This book concerns noncorporate American connections to Nazis, as
well as to their fifth columnists and sympathizers among the Romanians and
White Russians. Over half of the book covers the period before and during
World War II, and the remainder covers the Cold War period. Some of the
individuals discussed include Klaus Barbie, William Bullitt, Charles
Coughlin, Hamilton Fish, Allen Dulles, Reinhard Gehlen, Joseph Kennedy,
Tyler Kent, Nicolae Malaxa, George Moseley, Walter Schellenberg, Otto
Skorzeny, Viorel Trifa, Otto von Bolschwing, and Anastase Vonsiatsky.
Higham receive extensive help in his researches from the Simon
Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, and utilized 28,000 pages of U.S.
government documents that are now stored in the author's collection at
the University of Southern California library.
ISBN 0-385-17874-3
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- ALBERT HEINRICH (189)
- AMBROS OTTO (203)
- AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE (xxiv, 12-6)
- ARNOLD GODFREY E (281-2)
- ARTUKOVIC ANDRIJA (283-4)
- AUHAGEN FRIEDRICH (55)
- BAGOT ALFRED W (COL) (301)
- BARBIE KLAUS (288-301)
- BAUN HERMANN (261)
- BECKER LOFTUS EUGENE (260-1)
- BEHN SOSTHENES (xxv, 201)
- BIDDLE FRANCIS (xx, xxi, 56-7)
- BISHOP WILLIAM GERALD (87-8)
- BLUMENTHAL RALPH (282)
- BORCHERS HANS (9)
- BORRA RANJI (307)
- BOSE SUBHAS CHANDRA (307)
- BRASOL BORIS (76)
- BRITTON FRANK (252)
- BROWNING EARL S (297)
- BRUNDAGE AVERY (249)
- BUCHKO IVAN (117-8)
- BULLITT WILLIAM CHRISTIAN (xx, 17-21, 28)
- BYRD HARRY F SR (206)
- BYRNES JAMES FRANCIS (262)
- CABOT CORPORATION (239)
- CABOT THOMAS DUDLEY (239)
- CAMPBELL JAMES E (CAPT) (79-81)
- COLE STERLING (307-8)
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- COUGHLIN CHARLES E (xix, xx, xxiii, 69-78)
- COUNTER INTELLIGENCE CORPS (295-301)
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- CROWLEY LEO T (77)
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- DAVIS ROBERT C (248)
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- DEGRELLE LEON (250, 291)
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- ROCKLER WALTER J (286)
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- ROLLINS L A (307)
- ROSENBERG ALFRED (54, 117)
- RUBINSTEIN SERGE (xxiii)
- RYAN ALLAN A JR (xv, xvi, 286, 289)
- SALTURELLI A J (231)
- SARNOFF DAVID (202)
- SCHACHT HJALMAR HORACE GREELEY (250)
- SCHELLENBERG WALTER (xxv, 184-93, 262)
- SCHIANO VINCENT A (282)
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- SKORZENY OTTO (243-55)
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