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...decade ago, Anja Rosmus was just another bright 20-year-old student in the town of Passau, where Hitler had lived and Eichmann was married. Anja was a good Catholic with no political ax to lodge in the town's guilty past. Then she decided to write an essay about Passau's resistance to the Nazis -- and was surprised to find the gentry amassed against her. Librarians blocked her research; the limit of confidentiality on documents was suspiciously extended from 30 years to 50. When her phone wasn't jangling with anonymous insults ("Jewish whore!"), neo-Nazi louts were tossing...
...considerable help from Joseph Wechsberg of the New Yorker, he had a highly dramatic story to tell: how he had emerged from an Austrian concentration camp in 1945 and devoted the rest of his life to catching Nazi criminals; how he had helped to hunt down some, like Adolf Eichmann; and how others still remained, as he titled his book, The Murderers Among...
...purposes well. Instead of benefiting from Wechsberg's competent prose, this new autobiography has been translated from the German by Ewald Osers, and it is studded with Anglicisms like lorries, plimsolls, doing a bunk and getting the stick. And though the publishers exaggeratedly claim that Wiesenthal "engineered" the Eichmann capture, Wiesenthal himself says only that his effort to prevent Eichmann's wife from having Eichmann declared legally dead "was probably my most important contribution to the Eichmann case...
Wiesenthal also criticizes Israeli secret-service chief Isser Harel, whose memoirs did not mention Wiesenthal's contributions to the capture of Eichmann. (The story of that raid is vividly told in a new memoir by the actual capturer, Eichmann in My Hands, by Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein, to be published in May by Warner Books.) Other Wiesenthal targets include former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, a Jewish Socialist, for including four ex- Nazis in his first Cabinet, and Elie Wiesel, for not including a Gypsy on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council...
...more recent decades, the Jordanian Jerusalem Times printed an open letter to Adolf Eichmann, asking him to find solace in the fact that his trial would "one day culminate in the liquidation of the remaining six million to avenge your blood...