Well, I'm back after a long hiatus. And I've got a new book that blows holes in perceptions about the first decades of postwar Germany. The book is titled "Nazis At The Watercooler: War Criminals In Postwar German Agencies." Published by Potomac Books, a trade imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, it tells how thousands of ex-Nazis -- mass murderers and other perps among them -- were easily able to land government jobs in West Germany. It describes networks of ex-Nazis who got jobs because of their connections, and how they were able to bring on board more comrades they had served with under Hitler. They swapped swastikas for suits, and Hitler salutes for handshakes. They wrote letters of recommendations for each other that were called "Persilscheine," named after Persil, a popular laundry detergent, obfuscating job applicants' misdeeds. These "Persil Certificates" made many a resume as clean as fresh laundry. The US government was complicit in what became a Nazi infestation of the West German civil service, even helping war criminals land government position. More on this to come!