Bettina Stangneth - Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

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Originally published in Germany as Eichmann vor Jerusalem: Das unbehelligte Leben eines Massenmrders by Arche Literatur Verlag AG, ZurichHamburg in 2001. Copyright 2011 by Arche Literatur Verlag AG, ZurichHamburg. Copyright 2014 by Bettina Stangneth

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stangneth, Bettina.
[Eichmann vor Jerusalem. English]
Eichmann before Jerusalem : the unexamined life of a mass murderer / by Bettina Stangneth ; translated from the German by Ruth Martin.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-307-95967-6 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-307-95968-3 (eBook).
1. Eichmann, Adolf, 19061962. 2. War criminalsGermanyBiography. 3. Holocaust, Jewish (19391945). I. Title.
DD247.E5S7313 2014
364.151092dc23
[B]
2014001031

eBook ISBN: 9780307959683

Jacket photographs: Yad Vashem Archive
Jacket design by Oliver Munday

v3.1

For Dieter, the guiding star on my journey through the night.

These are some of the less familiar people associated with Adolf Eichmann (aka Otto Heninger on the Lneberg Heath and Ricardo Klement in Argentina) in the postwar period.

A LVENSLEBEN , L UDOLF VON : Himmlers former chief adjutant; higher SS and police leader; after the war, the highest-ranking Nazi in Argentina

F RITSCH , E BERHARD : Head of Drer Verlag from 1946, publishing Nazi texts and owning a bookstore that became a focal point for Nazis in Argentina; publisher of Der WegEl Sendero, the most extremist postwar Nazi magazine

L ANGER , D R .: Former SD officer from Vienna; other details unknown

S ASSEN , W ILLEM : Dutch Nazi collaborator and member of SS journalist corps; propagandist, correspondent, author, and ghostwriter for Nazis in Argentina; organizer and host of the interviews and discussion group with Eichmann

E ICHMANN , H ORST A DOLF ; Dieter Helmut; Ricardo Francisco: Younger sons of Adolf and Vera Eichmann

E ICHMANN , K ARL A DOLF : Adolf Eichmanns father

E ICHMANN , K LAUS : Eldest son of Adolf and Vera Eichmann

E ICHMANN , O TTO : Adolf Eichmanns brother; with Robert, organized and supported the defense in Eichmanns trial

E ICHMANN , R OBERT : Adolf Eichmanns stepbrother; a lawyer who organized and supported his brothers defense, 196062; large portions of the Argentina Papers were stolen from his office

E ICHMANN , V ERA : Adolf Eichmanns wife; postwar, she used her birth surname, Liebl

F REIESLEBEN , H ANS : SS member who arranged a hiding place for Eichmann on Lneberg Heath

F ULDNER , H ORST C ARLOS : German-Argentine SS member; helped Nazis escape on behalf of Juan Pern

H UDAL , B ISHOP A LOIS : Roman bishop and Hitler sympathizer who helped falsify identity papers for Nazi fugitives, including Eichmann

K RAWIETZ , N ELLY : Sister of SS member Kurt Bauer; hid Eichmann on his escape from a prisoner-of-war camp; later visited him when he was in hiding on Lneberg Heath

K UHLMANN , H ERBERT , AKA P EDRO G ELLER : Former member of SS panzer corps; traveled from Europe to Argentina with Eichmann; in 1953, was guarantor for Eichmanns apartment in Chacabuco Street; worked at CAPRI

S CHINTLHOLZER , L UIS (A LOIS ): Austrian SS officer involved in 1938 pogrom in Innsbruck and war crimes in Italy; helped Eichmann escape Germany

H AGEL , H ERBERT : SS member; former secretary to the gauleiter of Linz; employed by CAPRI

H EILIG , B ERTHOLD : Former NSDAP district leader in Brunswick; worked for CAPRI in Tucumn

K LINGENFU , K ARL : Worked in Nazi Foreign Offices Jewish Department; head of German-Argentine Chamber of Commerce until 1967

K OPPS , R EINHARD , AKA J UAN M ALER : Prolific writer, fanatical Nazi, and rival of Sassens; worked for Drer Verlag in the early days of Der Weg

L EERS , J OHANN VON : SS officer and prominent ideologue employed in the Ministry of Propaganda; in Argentina 195054; wrote for Der Weg

M ENGE , D IETER : SS member; Luftwaffe pilot; in Argentina became a scrap-metal magnate; Sassens patron

N EURATH , C ONSTANTIN VON : Son of Germanys former foreign minister; with Rudel, founder of Kameradenwerk, a fund to assist fugitive Nazis legally and financially; from 1958, director of Siemens Argentina S.A.

O VEN , W ILFRED VON : Press adjutant to Goebbels in the Ministry of Propaganda; author of a book on Goebbels, published by Drer Verlag

P FEIFFER , F RANZ W ILHELM : Wehrmacht colonel and rumored guardian of Nazi gold; owner of the rabbit farm in Joaqun Gorina managed by Eichmann; friend of Sassen and Rudel

P OBIERZYM , P EDRO : Polish Wehrmacht soldier; did business with Nazis in Argentina, including Dieter Menge and Willem Sassen

R UDEL , H ANS -U LRICH : Luftwaffe bomber pilot, the most highly decorated serviceman under Hitler; with Neurath, founded Kameradenwerk, a fund to assist Nazis legally and financially; friend of Fritsch and admirer of Sassen, who ghostwrote Rudels books, published by Drer Verlag

S CHWAMMBERGER , J OSEF : SS member and camp commandant in Krakow, 194244; employed by Siemens Argentina S.A.

V OLLMER , D IETER : Close colleague of Fritsch who worked on Der Weg; returned to Germany in 1954 but remained in contact with Drer

V TTERL , J OSEF : Member of the criminal and border police with Einsatzkommando 10A of Einsatzgruppe D; fled to Buenos Aires but moved back to Germany in 1955; found employment with BfV; returned to Argentina in 1958

A HARONI , Z VI : Mossad agent who found out Eichmanns Argentine address and positively identified Ricardo Klement as Eichmann

B AUER , F RITZ : Attorney general of Hesse, 195668; prosecutor of Nazi war criminals; located Eichmann in Argentina and provided the information to Israeli authorities

F RIEDMAN , T UVIAH : Holocaust survivor whose family was murdered; Nazi hunter; creator of the Haifa Institute for the Documentation of Nazi War Crimes

G ENOUD , F RANOIS : Swiss financier, Hitler admirer, and dedicated Nazi; profited from the commercializing writings of Nazis such as Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels; involved in a deal to sell Eichmanns writings for profit and to finance Eichmanns defense

H AREL , I SSER : Head of Mossad, 195263; author of a controversial account of Eichmanns capture