»With its impressively well-researched wealth of facts Bohr’s important reappraisal leaves one aghast at the reach of the brown tentacles.« Süddeutsche Zeitung

»Bohr has managed to write a sparkling book about how right-wing extremists have managed to instrumentalize politics for themselves and at the same time claim sovereignty over the meaning of history. Considering current attempts to change the Nazi period into simply ›a speck of birdpoop‹, this is now more relevant than is comfortable.« taz

»Bohr presents the history of [The War Criminals’ Lobby] in a painstaking and multi-facetted way.« Frankfurter Rundschau

»Felix Bohr’s enormously comprehensive study is commendable – an antidote to the run-of-the-mill, and all too self-assured, historical narratives we have become used to.« Deutschlandfunk Kultur

»In this highly recommended study historian Felix Bohr investigates whether or not these [war criminals], whose death sentences were in the end changed into lifelong sentences, were supported over the course of decades by certain groups and official representatives of the Federal Republic.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung

»A threat is looming over the successful German democracy. Anti-democratic, extreme right-wing powers have gathered steam. […] This is another reason for why Felix Bohr’s book is important. By looking back onto the very recent past, it shows how vulnerable our democracy is, which dangers lurk within it and how difficult the German people’s relationship with freedom was over the course of its history.« Gerhart Baum, DIE ZEIT

»an ambitious and enlightening book« Hans Niedermayer, Buchprofile/medienprofile Jg. 64/2019, Heft 2