Word: eichmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mere stage work could be expected to evoke the tale of horror that issued from the trial of Adolph Eichmann. But in London last week, audiences reeling out of the St. Martin's Theater were convinced that they had experienced something like a surrealistically twisted version of the Eichmann affair. The play is The Man in the Glass Booth. The booth is a criminal's bulletproof dock, but the drama is anything but shatterproof...
...MURDERERS AMONG US: THE WIESENTHAL MEMOIRS, edited by Joseph Wechsberg. The incredible career of Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who brought Adolf Eichmann and 800 other war criminals to final justice, is told in a spare, striking style reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op-now on international assignment...
...MURDERERS AMONG US: THE WIESENTHAL MEMOIRS, edited by Joseph Wechsberg. In a style as spare and striking as Dashiell Hammett's, dogged Nazi-Hunter j Simon Wiesenthal recounts the career that brought 800 war criminals-including Adolf Eichmann-to justice, and made of Wiesenthal a kind of Intercontinental...
Complicated Clients. The pursuit of other targets was always complicated by the expertness with which ODESSA-the Nazi escape apparatus set up and financed by the SS-slipped fugitives out of Europe after the war. One who did not go far was Erich Rajakowitsch, who in 1942 headed Eichmann's Section IV B4 ("death transports") in Holland: Wiesenthal finally found "Raja" in Italy, where he was heading a firm that traded profitably in oil pipelines and engines with the East bloc. Sentenced in Vienna to 2½ years, Raja was quietly released six months later...
...reported by Wiesenthal to be hiding in Paraguay. Biggest fish still at large, though, is Deputy Führer Martin Bormann, now 66, who Wiesenthal claims is not only alive but doing quite nicely in Brazil. Says Wiesenthal with mock resignation: "No country will want to attempt a second Eichmann case. Bormann will come to his end some day, and the West German reward of 100,000 marks [$25,000] will never be paid." After a book like this, maybe it will...