In 1982, John Loftus, a young attorney in the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI), appeared on 60 Minutes, the most acclaimed television news program of the time, and revealed that following World War II, both the Justice and State departments covertly admitted vast numbers of Nazi war criminals into the US and naturalized many of them. In his latest book, America’s Nazi Secret, John Loftus reveals the shocking secret of the Justice Department’s decades of Nazi collaboration.
As Mordechai Vanunu can testify being a whistleblower carries with it grave personal risks. But unlike Vanunu whose public revelations regarding Israel’s alleged nuclear weapons program placed Jewish security at great risk John Loftus a Roman Catholic took on this role in the pursuit of truth and justice for Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
In 1982 Loftus appeared on 60 Minutes the most acclaimed television news program of the time and revealed that following World War II both the Justice and State departments covertly admitted vast numbers of Nazi war criminals into the United States and naturalized many of them. For this 60 Minutes received an Emmy Award for outstanding investigative journalism while Loftus and his family received death threats.
In 1977 as a young attorney working for the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI) Loftus was officially assigned to investigate Nazi war crimes cases from Byelorussia (known today as Belarus) but also covertly to determine who had fixed some of the Nuremberg trials and why.
Little did he know that within those darkened underground highly classified archives in Suitland Maryland he would come across a dusty box containing the diary of Sol Shnadow a Byelorussian Jewish survivor and Bielski partisan and that in doing so his life was about to take an irreversible turn.
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