Adolf Eichmann’s notoriety waxed as his influence waned. During the Nuremberg Trials, a succession of defendants and witnesses fingered him in absentia. It became highly convenient to displace responsibility for the persecution of the Jews onto his shoulders. Contrary to what many historians (including myself) have assumed, in the immediate postwar years Eichmann was targeted by Jewish organisations hunting Nazi criminals and wanted by both the British and the Americans. This was partly why he decided to flee his hideout in northern Germany in 1950 and make for Argentina.

Nov 2014

Defies Any Parallel

Reading with Primo

Tales of Degradation and Despair

A Chronicle of Suffering and Spirituality

Tormented At The End

Violence and Vegetarianism

The Eagle & the Prophet

Scions of the Survivors

The Germs of Genocide

Knowing When To Run

‘Poster Boy of the Third Reich’

‘Living Crematorium’

Out Of The Mud

Before the Storm

‘Berlin In Arabic’

Never Again?

The Fuhrer’s Mouthpiece

Man of Many Faces

Passive Resistance

Testimony

Oskar’s Story

Striped Pyjamas

The Root of Conflict

Lethal Indifference

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