Focusing on the passionate journey of the couples and legal advocates, this true story chronicles the pivotal moments leading to the landmark legalization of same-sex marriage across the United States. It highlights the struggles, triumphs, and unwavering commitment of those who fought for equality, showcasing the personal and societal impacts of this historic civil rights victory. Through their experiences, the narrative emphasizes themes of love, resilience, and justice in the face of adversity.
The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice
as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who
disappeared in America after World War Two. In 1990, in a drafty basement
archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi
roster from 1945 that no Western investigator had ever seen. The long-
forgotten document, containing more than 700 names, helped unravel the details
behind the most lethal killing operation in World War Two. In the tiny Polish
village of Trawniki, the SS set up a school for mass murder and then recruited
a roving army of foot soldiers, 5,000 men strong, to help annihilate the
Jewish population of occupied Poland. After the war, some of these men
vanished, making their way to the U.S. and blending into communities across
America. Though they participated in some of the most unspeakable crimes of
the Holocaust, Trawniki Men spent years hiding in plain sight, their terrible
secrets intact. In a story spanning seven decades, Citizen 865 chronicles the
harrowing wartime journeys of two Jewish orphans from occupied Poland who
outran the men of Trawniki and settled in the United States, only to learn
that some of their one-time captors had followed. A tenacious team of
prosecutors and historians pursued these men and, up against the forces of
time and political opposition, battled to the present day to remove them from
U.S. soil. Through insider accounts and research in four countries, this
urgent and powerful narrative provides a front row seat to the dramatic turn
of events that allowed a small group of American Nazi hunters to hold
murderous men accountable for their crimes decades after the war's end.
Kniha popisuje obtížné a vleklé úsilí amerického Úřadu pro zvláštní vyšetřování (OSI) najít, zbavit amerického občanství a vyhostit bývalé nacisty a jejich pomocníky, kteří se po válce vloudili do Spojených států a vedli tam poklidný život, aniž by zaplatili za své zločiny. Všichni takoví při žádosti o azyl lhali o své minulosti a v poválečném zmatku bylo nemožné jejich tvrzení ověřit. O nacistické minulosti hlavního „hrdiny“, Ukrajince německého původu Jacka Reimera (Občan 865), se OSI dozvěděl až čtyřicet let po druhé světové válce...
