Word: eichmanns
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...EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM (275 pp.)-Hannah Arendt-Viking...
...executioner, Adolf Eichmann was a flop. He got queasy at the sight of corpses, and when a fellow Nazi invited him to peep at some Jews being gassed in a truck, he ran away in terror. "If today I am shown a gaping wound," he declared, "I can't possibly look at it. I am that type of person...
...Heart & Soul." Born in Trieste, the son of a prosperous merchant, Rajakowitsch became a lawyer and moved to Vienna, where his intelligence and good looks soon earned him a wide circle of friends. One of them was Adolf Eichmann, who in 1938 was busy planning the expulsion of Jews from Austria. Rajako-witsch volunteered his services to Eichmann, provided a neat formula whereby the Nazis got quick cash ransoms from Jews who were forced to quit the country. When Rajakowitsch formally applied to join the SS, Eichmann wrote a warm letter recommending him as "somebody who puts himself...
...that, all right. Rajakowitsch traveled as Eichmann's deputy to Czechoslovakia, Poland and Berlin; then, in 1941 he was rushed to The Netherlands, where intermittent month-long protest riots had broken out in major cities after the Nazis' first raid on the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam. Rajakowitsch soon got the roundups rolling smoothly. As boss of the dreaded Section IV-B-4 (Special Office for Jewish Affairs) in Holland, he was so thorough that when he was asked to spare a handful of Jews of Portuguese origin, he declared, "Jews are Jews...
...after Eichmann told Israeli police that he had talked to his old friend in Buenos Aires after the war, the net started moving around him. Simon Wiesenthal, chief of the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna, who had helped track down Eichmann, traced Rajakowitsch to Milan. There, under the name Enrico Raja, he had built up a flourishing business importing metals and machinery from Communist Eastern Europe...