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...harbored complications. If he was of all men the typical American, as his friend William Tecumseh Sherman thought, the incendiary of Atlanta also admitted, "I do not understand him, and I do not believe he understands himself." That was the oddness of Grant. In Hannah Arendt's phrase, Adolf Eichmann represented "the banality of evil." In a way, Grant represented the banality of a momentary greatness. Or perhaps the mysterious possibilities of the ordinary...
...Wiesenthal's estimate, some 5,000 former Nazis found refuge in South America after the war. Protected and organized by a loosely knit network known as Kameradenwerk (Comrades' Enterprise), some of them have been living under their own names, and in considerable prosperity. Roughly 300 reportedly went to Paraguay. Eichmann and others lived in Argentina. Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," made his home in Bolivia before he was extradited to France in 1983. Two major catches of former Nazi bigwigs occurred in Brazil. In 1967 Sao Paulo police seized Franz Stangl, who was allegedly responsible for the deaths...
MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence agency, had in the meantime been stepping up its pursuit of Nazis scattered across South America. In 1960, in a raid on a house in Buenos Aires, Israeli commandos seized Adolf Eichmann, the man in charge of Hitler's "final solution," and took him to Jerusalem to be tried -- and hanged. During the same campaign the Israelis descended on a house in the Vicente Lopez area of the Argentine capital where they were sure they would catch Mengele. They arrived to find that the doctor had vanished...
...Gunzburg in Bavaria. He is said to have been arrested and released by U.S. counterintelligence agents in Vienna in 1947--and then to have made his way to a wealthy suburb of Buenos Aires. He is said to have narrowly eluded Israeli agents who kidnaped fellow Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires--and then taken up residence in neighboring Paraguay, where he is rumored to be living today. Now 74, Dr. Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death," has become not only a symbol of evil but the world's most hunted and elusive war criminal. He also carries...
...possible that the country of Bach, Handel and Goethe could also be the country of Himmler and Eichmann? It is a question that has vexed the world for decades. Perhaps a better question is: What other country could it have been? The Germans have long been able to hold two opposing ideas in mind and remain untroubled by their mutual exclusivity. Only in Germany could Weimar and Buchenwald coexist, each denying the other's nature. "I wish and ask that our rulers who have Jewish subjects exercise a sharp mercy toward these wretched people," wrote Luther in 1543. "They must...