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  Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of several books of history, among them the Killing series, Into Africa, and The Explorers. He and his wife live in Southern California. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Map

  Prologue

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Notes

  Postscript

  Sources

  Illustration Credits

  Index

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  About the Authors

  Copyright

  KILLING THE SS. Copyright © 2018 by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Cover design by Rick Pracher; cover illustration by Mark Stutzman/Eloqui; cover photograph courtesy of Alamy Stock Photo (Hitler with Gestapo)

  The Library of Congress has catalogued the print edition as follows:

  Names: O’Reilly, Bill, author. | Dugard, Martin, author.

  Title: Killing the SS : the hunt for the worst war criminals in history / Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard.

  Description: First edition. | New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018. | Includes index.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018017242 | ISBN 9781250165541 (hardcover)

  Subjects: LCSH: Nazi hunters—History. | Nationalsozialistische Deutsche

  Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel—Officers. | World War, 1939-1945—Atrocities. | War criminals—Germany—History. | Fugitives from justice—Germany—History. | Israel. Mosad le-modi°in òve-tafòkidim meyuòhadim—History. | Harel, Isser, 1912-2003.

  Classification: LCC D804.G4 O694 2018 | DDC 940.53/180922—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018017242

  e-ISBN 9781250165558

  First Edition: October 2018

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