The Pledge Betrayed: America and Britain and the Denazification of Postwar Germany

by Tom Bower

Book Overview

Examines the policies of the Allied powers toward the Nazi leaders after World War II and argues that important Nazi war criminals were allowed to escape trial. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385177003
• ISBN13: 9780385177009
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Reality in a nutshell

I first discovered this book at the Shakespeare bookshop across the street from Notre Dame in 1986. The book is a very tough but fulfilling read ostensibly about the prices paid and not paid for war crimes after world war II. My interpretation is this book is an insight into how governments are run in the face of reality. Indeed the opening chapters convey that reality in horrific details of governments avoiding lines in the sand and avoiding confronting the truth so as to ultimately avoid having to take any more responsibility than absolutely necessary. This book is a descroption and condemnation of the failures of governing then but also the same failures built into the very fabric of the governments we currently live under. It's interesting but not for the faint of heart or those who only want to hear that the problem with our govenments are the idiots the other half of the electorate elected rather than the foundation of the government and the reality of human beings simply being human beings.