By Kevin Seabrooke

After the Führer’s death by suicide on April 30, 1945, the clock was ticking for the U.S. Army’s Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) to round up the Nazi henchmen before they vanished, or worse, attempted to continue following Hitler’s twisted vision and retaliate with hidden weapons—something the fanatical Hitler Youth leader Arthur Axmann was actively planning when he was arrested in December 1945. At the top of their list was Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the chief of the Reich Security Main Office, who had direct control over the Gestapo, the SD (intelligence service), and the concentration camp system. The CIC captured him at a remote snow-bound cabin in the Austrian Alps on May 13.

They Shall Not See the Dawn: The Manhunt for the Third Reich’s Most Wanted (Charles Lachman, Diversion Books/ Dist. by Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 304 pp., Aug. 25, 2026 $32.99)