{"id":2971,"date":"2016-06-09T18:29:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T18:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2016-06-09T18:29:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T18:29:40","slug":"eric-stover-74-pursues-war-criminals-in-hiding-in-plain-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2016\/06\/09\/eric-stover-74-pursues-war-criminals-in-hiding-in-plain-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Stover \u201974 Pursues War Criminals in \u201cHiding in Plain Sight\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Joy Li \u201918<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eric Stover \u201974, faculty director at the Human Rights Center of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, recently published \u201cHiding in Plain Sight\u201d with two of his Ph. D. mentees, Victor Peskin and Alexa Koenig. \u201cHiding In Plain Sight\u201d discusses the flights of war criminals throughout modern history and the range of diplomatic and military strategies to capture them. It starts with the stories of the post-war escapes of Nazis such as Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz physician who was known as the \u201cAngel of Death\u201d and Adolf Eichmann, the infamous initiator of the \u201cfinal solution\u201d and ends with today\u2019s high-level suspects like al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n

Stover says he first gained interest in perpetrators of wartime atrocities when he held the bones of Josef Mengele in Sao Paulo, Brazil. \u201cStanding there looking at the skeleton, I thought, \u2018How could it be that this war criminal, who fled Auschwitz in 1945, could end up here on the other side of the earth? And what about all the other Nazis who were walking free in Latin America, where were they and why hadn\u2019t they been caught?\u2019\u201d He continued his investigations of wartime leaders who escaped, successfully or unsuccessfully. Six years after, he co-authored and published \u201cHiding in Plain Sight,\u201d which is also the companion book of the PBS documentary that he co-produced, \u201cDead Reckoning: Postwar Justice from World War II to The War on Terror,\u201d which is scheduled to air in December. Additionally, his book and the work Stover did in Bosnia was recently featured by Christiane Amanpour on CCN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the author of over seven books, when asked to provide writing insight for CC students and faculty, Stover said: \u201cWriting has no magic, it is simply inspiration, diligence, and many lonely hours of solitude as you rewrite and rewrite your copy first for yourself, then your readers, and finally to add a good dollop of spit and polish. And, of course, don’t forget to always check your sources and remember the advice of the Cornish writer and author of \u201cOn the Art of Writing,\u201d Arthur Quiller-Couch: \u2018In writing, you must kill your darlings.\u2019\u00a0Then go for a hike in the Garden of the Gods.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Stover \u201974, faculty director at the Human Rights Center of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, recently published \u201cHiding in Plain Sight\u201d with two of his Ph. D. mentees, Victor Peskin and Alexa Koenig. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":2972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kudos","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2016\/06\/PlainSight.png?fit=344%2C517","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}