Eichmann Interrogated Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli Police

Lang, Jochen Von & Ralph Manheim & Avner W. Less & Claus Sibyll

ISBN 10: 0374146667 / ISBN 13: 9780374146665

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux N.D., New York, NY, 1983

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This book is in Very Good condition and has a Vewry Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The blue cloth cover of the book have several spots of light discoloration / fading. The text pages are generally clean and bright. . The dust jacket cover has several small edge nicks and tears to the spine ends and corners, alcong with some bumping and light wear to the cover edges. Otto Adolf Eichmann; (19 March 1906 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) , and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Following this, he was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe. " (from Wikipedia).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eichmann Interrogated Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli Police
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux N.D., New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374146667
• ISBN 13: 9780374146665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-

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Synopsis

As head of the Gestapo's "Jewish Evacuation Department," Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) was the driving force in the impoverishment, deportation, and extermination of millions of Jews. In 1945 he escaped with a Vatican passport and fled to South America. In May 1960 the Israelis located and kidnapped Eichmann from Argentina, and brought him to trial in Israel, where he was convicted and hanged, his remains cremated and scattered. For nearly a year prior to his trial Eichmann was interrogated by Captain Avner W. Less, a German Jew whose father and numerous relatives perished in Nazi concentration camps. Eichmann Interrogated is a superbly edited condensation of their 275-hour exchange, representing ten percent of the 3,564-page total. Amid his lies, distortions, evasions, half-truths, and startling admissions, Eichmann fully acknowledges the reality of the Holocaust while attempting to minimize his central role in its execution. As his life from traveling salesman to mass murderer unfolds, Eichmann's defense becomes a chilling self-indictment and a warning of Evil's often unassuming visage.