Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Madagascar Plan. Then Poland fell, and there were another 3,000,000 Jews to dispose of. Eichmann lost himself in an elaborate and totally impractical plan to resettle 4,000,000 Jews under a Nazi overlord on the island of Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa. Says a laconic observer: "The year Eichmann wasted on the Madagascar scheme was the most harmless he ever spent." In 1941, when the Nazis invaded Russia, the Madagascar scheme-and all other "soft" solutions of the Jewish question-went out the window. At the Wannsee conference in Berlin, Eichmann and 14 other Nazi...
...last big job was the elimination of Hungary's Jews. While the Nazi armies stumbled backward in defeat, Eichmann arrived in Budapest to command the roundup. He conceived another farfetched idea, on a par with the Madagascar scheme. Summoning Jewish Leader Joel Brand, Eichmann said: "I'm prepared to sell you 1,000,000 Jews: blood for money, money for blood. Whom do you want to save? Men who can beget children? Women who can bear them? Old people? Children? Sit down and tell...
...escaped from the P.W. camp and hid out as a lumberjack in northern Germany. The mysterious attraction Eichmann held for some women smoothed the way: unanimously, they found him polite, considerate, and filled with a romantic melancholy. After three years' concealment, he made contact with the still existent Nazi underground and was smuggled through Switzerland to Italy. There, posing as an anti-Communist refugee, he got a Red Cross D.P. travel document and sailed for Argentina...
...result, his name barely appears in the 190 pages of the Nürnberg trial judgment. Only after the trial, during the painstaking sifting of the voluminous Nazi archives, did it become clear how Eichmann, as chief of Bureau IV A 4 b, had had total charge of rounding up all Jews in Nazi-held Europe. It was 14 more years before Israeli agents found their man in Argentina and spirited him to Jerusalem, where he stood last week in a glass cage...
...Nazi aim was to make Europe Judenfrei, free of Jews, by methods ranging from emigration to murder. How well they succeeded, even 15 years after their defeat in World War II, is shown by the following table compiled by the World Jewish Congress, dealing with countries once Nazi-held...