Fate Unknown
Fate Unknown Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service. From retracing the steps of the 'death marches' with the aim of discovering the…
Specifikacia Fate Unknown
Fate Unknown
Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service. From retracing the steps of the 'death marches' with the aim of discovering the burial sites of those murdered across the towns and villages of Central Europe, to knocking on doors of German foster homes to find the children of forced labourers, Fate Unknown uncovers the history of this remarkable archive and its more than 30 million documents.Under the leadership of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the tracing service became one of the most secretive of postwar institutions, unknown even to historians of the period. Set up by the Allies at the end of World War II, the ITS has worked until today to find missing persons and to aid survivors with restitution claims or to reunite them with loved ones.
Delving deeply into the archival material, Stone examines