Gangsters Vs. Nazis by Michael Benson
A fast-paced, revisionist narrative that recounts how American organized-crime figures—especially Jewish mobsters such as Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and others—used their muscle and underground networks to disrupt Nazi and fascist groups in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s, breaking up rallies, intimidating Bund organizers, protecting Jewish neighborhoods and, at times, cooperating with government agencies in wartime operations; the book argues these extralegal, often morally ambiguous actions helped blunt domestic Nazi influence and contributed in unexpected ways to the Allied war effort.
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