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...Germany, the writing that followed the nightmare of World War II was not a literature. It was a record of unassimilated shock. In books and trials, the horrors of the past were convulsively laid bare and the guilt placed upon major Nazis and lesser savages like "Hangman" Heydrich and Ilse Koch. But as the handful of notorious Nazis was again and again brought to public account, it became easier and easier for the rest of the Germans to think of themselves as innocent victims-lambs who had been set upon and held in thrall by wolves...
...solitary on bread and water: "White or rye?" Says an inmate to a guard: "Let's get one thing straight, McPherson: I live here, you just work here." Occasionally Reese slips into macabre, sick-style prison humor: "Ain't I a pain in the neck?" says the hangman to the condemned. But some of his cartoons rise to a choking pitch of bitterness, a stifled scream: "You with the dignity," a guard shouts at a curiously proud marcher in a gang of grey. "Get back in line...
...businesses, but in the year since Park took power, hundreds of lesser offenders were sentenced to road gangs, and ten ringleaders went on trial for their lives. Last week, in Seoul's Sodaemun prison, the death sentence against a smuggler was carried out for the first time: the hangman's noose was lowered over South Korea's most wanted criminal, surly, burly Han Pil Kook...
...freely offered thumbnail descriptions of his old Nazi comrades. His top boss, Heinrich Himmler, was the kind of man who demanded only that "I click my heels and say ja." Next came Reinhardt ("The Hangman") Heydrich, who had "a well-known failing-a personal failing. He was known for his preening and self-worship." Savagery flashed but once, in his description of Dieter Wisliceny, who had once been Eichmann's best friend and whose name he gave to his second son. But Wisliceny, before being executed, had accused Eichmann of guilt in the mass murders. Eichmann declared that...
Eichmann's imaginative lies and maneuverings paid off in 1938, when Hitler occupied Austria. Eichmann flew to Vienna in the same plane with the top men in the SS, acidulous Heinrich Himmler and blond, willowy Reinhardt ("The Hangman") Heydrich, and was given the task of getting rid of the Austrian Jews but keeping their possessions. In dealing with Jewish leaders, Eichmann delighted in playing the role of unpredictable tyrant. One day, he would be soft-spoken and agreeable, even delaying a transport of Jews so that it would not start on Yom Kippur; the next, he would scream hysterically...