The politics of the Cold War contributed to a distortion of…

The politics of the Cold War contributed to a distortion of the memories of the war. An example might be that despite his role as a Gestapo agent in occupied France, his culpability in the torture and death of French Resistance fighters, and his support of the deportation of thousands of Jews to concentration camps, ___________ was recruited by American intelligence services and smuggled out of Europe to protect him from prosecution so he could serve the American anticommunist crusade.