New PDF release: Operation Eichmann: Pursuit and Capture

By Zvi Aharoni

ISBN-10: 0304352012

ISBN-13: 9780304352012

Adolf Eichmann, the guy liable for undertaking Hitler's "final solution", escaped to South the United States on the finish of the conflict. He lived a modest existence, lower than an assumed identify, as an Argentinian citizen. yet he was once now not secure from justice. In 1960 the Mossad agent Zvi Aharoni hunted him down, proven his identification past all doubt, and in a covert and unlawful operation smuggled him, drugged to maintain him quiet, again to Israel. This nice manhunt had the entire drama and intrigue of fiction, however it is a real tale, retold right here through the guy who pulled it off, opposed to all odds.

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The International Military Tribunal had long begun proceedings against 'Hermann Wilhelm Goring' and twenty-three other defendants. The greatest criminal trial in history was based on 5000 docu ments, many of which dealt with the millions of murders committed in places like Auschwitz, Maidanek and Bergen-Belsen. The whole régime was represented, by members of the Cabinet and the Party, the W ehrmacht and the Gestapo, the SS and the SD. Among the accused was Eichmann's last boss and old friend Ernst Kaltenbrunner.

I was supposed to organise this resistance in the mountains with par tially disabled and people who had not served at all. ' Horia Sima, the head of the Romanian government, together with several Ministers and Generals who had also fled, put them selves under the protection of Eichmann. ' These men were members of the Waffen-SS and, in the end, some pal lid Hitler Youth - the scrapings from the barrel. Almost all were lacking in experience. On the other hand, the force disposed of large quantities of food, the newest weapons and lots of ammunition.

One should therefore make up the remaining 15,000 with Jews from Berlin. Thereupon the Hauptsturm führ er 31 ------------------------------------------------- H O L O C A U S T ------------------------------------------------- was given the assignment to 'prepare a recommendation for the evacuation of Jews from Berlin' for G auleiter Josef Goebbels. In those days, the deportees were sent to the Warthegau (district in for mer Poland), to Litzmannstadt (Lodz). In 1941, one of Eichmann's colleagues, SS Sturmbannführer Höppner, reported from there: T h is winter, there is a danger that not all of the Jews can be fed any longer.

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