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...TREBLINKA by Jean-François Steiner. 415 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Israeli agents. Not so Vienna-based Simon Wiesenthal, 59, the dogged detective of genocide who, since he walked out of the Mauthausen concentration camp in May 1945, has run to earth 800 Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann and, most recently, the wartime commander of the Treblinka and Sobibor death camps, Franz Stangl (TIME, March 10). In this calmly chilling memoir, Wiesenthal contrasts monstrous murderers with gumshoe detective techniques in a manner as spare and striking as anything Dashiell Hammett wrote. Where Hammett's world was big-city crime, Wiesenthal's is the broad scope of human injustice...
Stangl, the wartime chief of the Treblinka concentration camp, was obviously of interest to Wiesenthal, a man possessed with chasing down escaped Nazi war criminals. When Wiesenthal protested that his Jewish Documentation Center did not have anything like $25,000, the Gestapo veteran began to dicker: "How many people did Stangl murder?" Wiesenthal's answer: about 700,000, including 400,000 Jews and the rest Christians and assorted anti-Nazis. "All right," said the visitor. "I'll give you a special price. How about a penny a head? That makes...
...trial. He is charged with killing 30,000 infirm and mentally defective Germans and Austrians early in the war at Hartheim Palace, near Linz, which was used as a "training center" to prepare SS men for work in concentration camps. Later, as chief of the camps at Sobibor and Treblinka in Poland, he earned Wiesenthal's name for him: "the second Eichmann...
...Different. The reaction was predictable. Concentration Camp Historian Olga Wormser angrily pointed out that non-Jews had also been forced by the Nazis to collaborate with their murderers. French Writer David Rousset, a non-Jew who survived Buchenwald and other camps, assailed Treblinka for "abounding in racist formulas. In fact, it (racism) is his central point of view." Others noted that the inmates of the Nazi death camps were usually too weak, too demoralized and too quickly put to death to have much chance of forming revolts. Besides, the Jews were no different from...