Hunting Eichmann

By early May 1945, Hitler's Germany was defeated and its cities in ruins.The Fuehrer, his empire squeezed out of existence by the advancing Alliedarmies, was dead by his own hand, as were his lieutenants, Himmler andGoebbels. In the first weeks of the Allied occupation, other leading Nazis- including Goering, Ribbentrop and Speer - fell, one by one, into Alliedcustody. But one man, his hands as steeped in blood as any, would evade thejudgment that awaited his colleagues at Nuremburg. He was SSObersturmbannfuehrer Adolf Eichmann, Chief of Department IVB4 of the ReichMain Security Office, and operational manager of the genocide thatdespatched 5 million European Jews to the gas chambers. Escaping US custodyin 1946, he hid in various locations in Germany before absconding in 1950via a 'ratline' escape route to Argentina, where he lived, undisturbed, forthe next decade. On 11 May 1960 he was captured by a team of Mossad agentsin a Buenos Aires suburb. Smuggled out of Argentina to Israel, Eichmann wasindicted there on charges of crimes against humanity, and hanged on 1 June1962. Part history, part detective story, part international thriller,Hunting Eichmann brings the story of the 15-year search for Eichmann morethrillingly, more completely to life than ever before. Archival research onthree continents and interviews both with survivors of the Mossad operationand with those who knew Eichmann in Argentina, have enabled the author notonly to reveal details of the abduction that have never before beenpublished, but also to uncover new information on how Eichmann was able toremain free for so long. In addition, his researches reveal the full extentof US negligence in hunting down war criminals and its protection ofhigh-level German officials.