Killing the SS Quotes

“The day after the nation’s founding in May 1948, its Arab neighbors declared war and blockaded Israeli ports. Israel’s air and ground defense force repelled an invasion, but with access to the Mediterranean cut off, the nation was forced to rely upon aircraft to import the munitions necessary to wage war. Foreign airlines refused to fly into Israel during the hostilities, forcing the fledgling nation to rely completely on their own civil aviation as a means of survival. In this spirit, Israel founded its own airline, El Al, whose name means “to the skies” in Hebrew.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“The problem of anti-Semitism is not unique to Germany. It has existed since the ancient days of the Greeks and Romans, was nurtured during the early times of the Christian Church, and has been a continuous presence throughout Europe for the past several centuries. Even in the United States, there is a growing prejudice against the Jews. This powerful hatred has ethnic, religious, and economic roots. Among some people there is great resentment over what many perceive to be Jewish control of the financial world. During his rise to power, Hitler stoked these suspicions, blaming Germany’s World War I loss on Jewish financial treachery. All of that seemed to have diminished with Germany’s defeat in the Second World War.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“Outside Milan, the couple visits the gas station where Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress were hanged by an angry mob.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“In all”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“The Vatican of course is the largest single organization involved in the illegal movement of emigrants,” reads a secret May 1947 report from the U.S. embassy in Rome to the State Department in Washington. “The Vatican further justifies its participation by its desire to infiltrate”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“1973, when he returned to Argentina and served a third term as president. An estimated three million supporters awaited his plane at Buenos Aires’s Ezeiza Airport. A scene”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“Between 1933 and 1943, just 190,000 Jews were allowed to immigrate into America”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“For years after the war, he was protected by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and its leader, Allen Dulles, who paid him a lavish $1,700 per month to spy on the new French government.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“When I have a bird in my hand, I don’t start looking for the bird in the bush,”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“Former SS soldiers in large numbers are escaping Nazi hunters by joining the French Foreign Legion to wage war in Indochina.1”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“The West German government is rife with former Nazis. The national security adviser, for example, is Hans Globke, who helped write the Nazi race laws that sought to destroy the Jews.5”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency pronounced: “We are not in the business of hunting war criminals.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“I reported to headquarters: ‘You know you’re working with a real war criminal?’ The answer comes back: ‘Yes, we know all about it. But he’s still valuable.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“Now, the same Klaus Barbie who took glee in murdering innocent children, is employed—and protected—by the U.S. government.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“The time in prison has also seen Göring kick his longtime morphine addiction.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“Sergeant Woods has no expertise as a hangman—indeed, he fabricated a prewar history as an executioner in order to get the job.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“in prison he regained his old self and displayed an alertness, intelligence, and quick-wittedness such as he had not shown since the early days of the Third Reich.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“The United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is not aggressively pursuing war crimes prosecutions. Instead, it is recruiting members of the Nazi Party to spy against the Soviet Union. The American OSS station chief in Switzerland, the aristocratic Allen Dulles, is in fact actually subverting the work of Benny Ferencz and giving assistance to a number of leading Nazis. Incredibly, Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, finds sanctuary with the OSS.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“I am not occasionally insubordinate,” Ferencz corrected an officer, who noted that description of his behavior in an official file. “I am usually insubordinate. I don’t take orders that I know are stupid or illegal.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“Together, they come up with three possible”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“A.M. The devil is”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“These four men—Bormann, Mengele, Barbie, Eichmann—are among the thousands of SS war criminals slipping quietly into the shadows. The Nazi postwar machine will help these war criminals gain passports, cross borders, and build new lives in sympathetic nations. To counter that, a small band of men who will soon call themselves “Nazi hunters” are organizing teams of assassins and kidnappers. The killing of the SS is about to begin.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“Only remnants of the European Jewish population remain in Germany, in the countries which Germany occupied, and in those which were her satellites or collaborators. Of the 9,600,000 Jews who lived in Nazi-dominated Europe, 60 percent are authoritatively estimated to have perished.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“MAY 7, 1945 REIMS, FRANCE 2: 41 A.M. The devil is being hunted. In a classroom of the École Professionelle technical school, Nazi chief of staff Gen. Alfred Jodl applies his signature to a sheet of foolscap, an oversize piece of paper, formally surrendering the German army after nearly six horrific years of fighting. Berlin has fallen. Nazi führer Adolf Hitler is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, his body then doused in gallons of gasoline and set ablaze by his personal bodyguard. Troops from the Allied powers of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union now swarm unopposed throughout Germany, quieting the few remaining pockets of resistance.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“I am usually insubordinate. I don’t take orders that I know are stupid or illegal.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“Otto Rasch, whose Einsatz unit massacred exactly 33,771 Jews over a two-day period outside Kiev, Russia.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“However, all works of history lean on a smaller bank of key resources as a gateway into the research: The Nazi Hunters and Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb; The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski; Hunting Evil by Guy Walters; Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends by Tom Segev; Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File by Alan Levy; Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice by Gerald Steinacher; The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men by Eric Lichtblau; the seminal Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt; and the equally spectacular Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth. The best research we came across concerning the validity of claims about the existence of an ODESSA group can be found in The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina by Uki Goni.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“It was Klaus Barbie—along with the CIA—who assisted those generals in locating and assassinating the famous Communist icon Che Guevara.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“A stone wall twelve feet high now divides the city into east and west—Communist and capitalist. More than three hundred East German sentry towers line the wall. Those trying to escape from the austerity of East Berlin to the sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll lifestyle of West Berlin are shot on sight. This division is a visible scar reminding the Germans that they are a conquered people.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

“We passed by the large chambers and, on the way back, I saw a big curtain at the entrance to the large chambers, a curtain used to cover the Ark containing the Torah Scrolls with the Shield of David on it, and on the curtain there was the inscription: “This is the gate of the Lord, through which the righteous shall enter.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History