Mr. Gould prefers this description: a 43-year-old college dropout from Los Angeles who says he made a lot of money in finance, became interested in Nazi memorabilia and ended up on an undercover odyssey where he posed as a neo-Nazi to befriend a former Waffen SS officer and recorded many of their conversations with the plan to someday expose the man’s role in the Third Reich.
But an alternative description might read like this: a man on a self-appointed mission to expose an aging Nazi — one who has published an autobiography and has never been accused of war crimes — and hoping, in the process, to publish a book and land a movie deal.
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Mr. Gould announced Tuesday that he and his cousin, Burton Bernstein, were filing a federal civil lawsuit against Mr. Frank in Washington that would claim that the former Nazi officer was responsible for orders issued on July 28, 1941, that spurred troops from the SS, or Schutzstaffel, the Nazi special police, to kill their ancestors in an attack on the village of Korets, in Ukraine.
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The suit will close out the unusual journey of a self-styled historian with unorthodox techniques, and follow his staged friendship with a former Nazi officer who confided in one taped interview that Himmler “was a good man” and that the Jews “dug their own grave” by oppressing the Germans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/world/europe/08nazi.html