Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer
Автор:Bettina Stangneth Год: 2015 Издание:Vintage Страниц: 608 ISBN: 9780307950161, 9780307950161 Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active life of exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known as the "Manager of the Holocaust", from the defendant's box in Jerusalem Eichmann portrayed himself as an overworked bureaucrat following orders - in his own words, "just a small cog in Adolf Hitler's extermination machine". How was this carefully crafted obfuscation possible? How did a principal architect of the Final Solution manage to disappear for so many years? Drawing upon an astounding trove of newly discovered documentation, Bettina Stangneth gives us a chilling portrait of an unrepentant murderer and highly skilled social manipulator with an inexhaustible ability to reinvent himself. Eichmann Before Jerusalem maps out the astonishing links between innumerable past Nazis - from ace Luftwaffe pilots to SS henchmen - both in exile and in Germany, and reconstructs in detail the postwar...
