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...hospitality, this last revelation is as deplorable as anything in Goñi's investigations. The roll call of indicted Nazi war criminals who ended up living more or less openly in Argentina until Perón was overthrown in 1955 includes Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Eduard Roschmann, Klaus Barbie, Ante Pavelic, Gerhard Bohne and Erich Priebke. This may be a matter-of-fact account of a sordid incident. But by keeping emotion at arm's length Goñi heightens the impact...
...adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's foolscap bestseller about a German journalist who happens onto The Big Story. An old man, a Jew, kills himself and leaves a diary behind. The diary is a chronicle of concentration-camp horror, especially of the bestiality of a commander called Roschmann (Maximilian Schell), who killed, along with some 60,000 others, the diarist's wife. The diarist remembered Roschmann vividly, even though the commander had dropped from sight. Nearly 20 years later he was spotted at the opera, and the Jew reported him to the police. The official response was polite dismissal...
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