Abstract

The Nazis Who Live Next Door

One fine morning in the middle of June, 1945, the author sat in the front of an army air-force truck bouncing over the shell-pocked roads of central Germany. He was on a strange mission. In his pocket were secret orders assigning him to "Project Lusty," a high-speed air-force operation designed to snatch out of Germany all Nazi war scientists before the Allies Russian, British, or French-could get to them. Two days earlier, at air-force headquarters, a hulking, hard-faced colonel had handed him orders and led him to a map in a briefing room. "You see that black line?" he said. "That's where they've stabilized with Russians, for the time being." As they are supposed to turn a large area over to the Russians about July 1 as far as this red line.