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Nazi Fugitive: The True Story of a German on the Run
An SS colonel goes underground at the end of WWII
Eugen Dollmann was a scholar and member of the SS whose connections among Italian society led to a posting as a liaison officer attached to Mussolini during World War II. In his work as a diplomat and interpreter, he associated with Heydrich, Himmler, and Hitler.
This memoir begins with the surrender of the Germans in 1945 and relates how after Dollmann escaped from the British, a Roman Catholic cardinal helped him by allowing him to hide in a home for drug addicts. Later, Dollmann was provided with false papers by the CIA who enlisted him for the fight against communism.
After he was arrested by the Italian police, the Americans had no alternative but to jail him, and after some months he was transferred to a camp near Frankfurt for “outstanding cases,” where some of the prominent Nazis were held. Dollmann was released, but he decided to get back to Italy across the frontiers, which he succeeded in doing only after a series of varied escapades.
Nazi Fugitive is a remarkable story of a former enemy turned ally during the early years of the Cold War.
Eugen Dollmann was a scholar and member of the SS whose connections among Italian society led to a posting as a liaison officer attached to Mussolini during World War II. In his work as a diplomat and interpreter, he associated with Heydrich, Himmler, and Hitler.
This memoir begins with the surrender of the Germans in 1945 and relates how after Dollmann escaped from the British, a Roman Catholic cardinal helped him by allowing him to hide in a home for drug addicts. Later, Dollmann was provided with false papers by the CIA who enlisted him for the fight against communism.
After he was arrested by the Italian police, the Americans had no alternative but to jail him, and after some months he was transferred to a camp near Frankfurt for “outstanding cases,” where some of the prominent Nazis were held. Dollmann was released, but he decided to get back to Italy across the frontiers, which he succeeded in doing only after a series of varied escapades.
Nazi Fugitive is a remarkable story of a former enemy turned ally during the early years of the Cold War.
216 pages, Hardcover
Published July 18, 2017
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June 7, 2017
A brief telling by Hitler's Italian translator about the capitulation to the Allies in Italy as well as his imprisonments and subsequent escape after the war. It was very interesting. I found it intriguing that he arrived at one prison and was imprisoned with some Jewish men who had been charged with blowing up some British in allegiance to the Jews of Palestine. Set mostly in Italy.
August 1, 2017
I received a copy of this book from a goodreads giveaway. This book was fairly good, it was interesting to see into the life of someone who worked towards peace during the war. Sometimes it was tough to follow the author as the story jumped around and to not get bogged down by the minute details provided.
January 20, 2026
Everyone wants to be the hero of their own story, but Dollman is such an unreliable narrator that it makes it hard to accept anything he says at face value.
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