Review: Hunting Eichmann
Comentário editorial - Kirkus ReviewsStep-by-step account of the 15-year pursuit of the Holocaust's leading bureaucrat. When Hitler ordered Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler to kill all European Jews, Himmler assigned the details to Obsturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann. More civil servant than warrior, Eichmann managed train schedules, kept records and dealt with foreign governments responsible for identifying and rounding up Jews. He ended the war an obscure figure absent from Allied lists of Nazi war criminals. Soon, however, survivors, including Simon Wiesenthal, organized to track down those responsible for the genocide who were still free, and Eichmann became a prime target. Bascomb (Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin, 2007, etc.) plumbed the archives and interviewed survivors to produce a surprisingly detailed history of Eichmann's movements during his years of freedom, as well as the work by many individuals that led to his capture. At the end of war, Eichmann spent seven months in Allied prison camps under an alias. Fearing detection after his name became prominent during the Nuremberg trials, he escaped and spent several dreary years as a lumberjack and chicken farmer. He moved to Argentina with the help of an efficient organization created by former SS officers to smuggle ex-Nazis out of Europe. When his wife and children disappeared from Austria in 1952, it was obvious Eichmann must still be alive, but by then the U.S. and West German governments had lost interest in hunting Nazis, and even Israel gave it a low priority. Several individuals turned up clues to his location, but not until 1959 did an Israeli secret service agent visit Argentina and confirm his presence there. Bascomb devotes the book's second half to the complex mission that enabled Israeli agents to kidnap Eichmann and spirit him back for trial. Absorbing and appalling, with some grim satisfaction provided by a stark depiction of the unrepentant Eichmann's execution.
Review: Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Comentário editorial - Bookreporter.com - Robert FinnTwo or three generations have now grown up to whom the name Adolf Eichmann, and indeed the whole ghastly 12year Nazi era, are just chapters in history textbooks. It is good, though, to be reminded of these horrors and to draw lessons from them. Journalist and author Neal Bascomb has accomplished both ends in this narrative of the escape, pursuit, capture, trial and execution of Eichmann, the Nazi ... Ler resenha completa
Review: Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Comentário do usuário - Emily - GoodreadsI got this in the Audible buy-one-get-one sale. I don't think I would've picked it up on my own. The author clearly wants this to be a thrilling spy tale. But Adolf Eichmann isn't the criminal ... Ler resenha completa
Review: Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Comentário do usuário - David Colton - GoodreadsFascinating and reads like a good action film without explosions and violence. The dark undertones of devoting a period of time to finding one of the world's most evil men spills into the lives of ... Ler resenha completa
Review: Hunting Eichmann
Comentário do usuário - Publishers Weekly vol. 255 iss. 49 p. 51After WWII, notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann lived comfortably in Buenos Aires under an alias. Nazi hunters like Simon Wiesenthal sought Eichmann fruitlessly until 1956, when Eichmann's son ... Ler resenha completa
