In the "Fletcher Forum", Alfred Rubin stated that "De Zayas is undoubtedly one of the world's leading legal scholars addressing forced population transfers ... work provides massive confirmation of the truism that atrocities are committed in war by all sides, that many go unpunished, and some are part of national policy...the possibility that truth might be misused in argument by the devil is not a reason to suppress truth. I have no personal doubt that this book is a useful attempt to preserve an important truth. By writing it, the author -- whose own humanitarian sympathies are beyond question, as is Levie's scholarly detachment --has done a service to scholarship." Dieter Fleck, in "Archiv des Voelkerrechts", underlined that "this well-written book is based on thorough research of original sources." The British novelist Philip Kerr took the WUSt functionaries as subject of his novel "A Man without Breath", published 2013 by Penguin; in the "Author's note" (p. 463) Kerr writes: "The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau continued to exist until 1945. Anyone who wishes to know more about its work should consult the excellent book of the same name by Alfred de Zayas."