090332
New York
1960
11×18
meki
192
engleski
Cijena: 18,00 EUR
The book represents an extremely important historical-documentary account published in 1960, immediately after Mossad agents located and captured the infamous Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in May of that same year, functioning as a comprehensive historical dossier prepared on the eve of his historic trial in Jerusalem. With a foreword by the esteemed American writer and social critic Harry Golden, the book delivers a harrowing and precisely documented chronicle of Eichmann's life, his rise within the Nazi apparatus, and his pivotal, logistical role in the planning and implementation of the "Final Solution" — the systematic and mass murder of six million Jews. The structure of this monograph is based on extensive primary source material and authentic documents originally gathered for the Nuremberg trials. Across six chronological chapters — starting from Eichmann's early background, through the wartime events in Warsaw and the execution of mass liquidations, and leading up to his postwar escape from Allied prisoner-of-war camps and dramatic capture in South America — the editor skillfully combines concise commentary with official sworn affidavits and statements from high-ranking Nazis who knew Eichmann intimately. Prominent among these are the chilling testimonies of Dieter Wisliceny (Eichmann's subordinate in Slovakia), Ernst Kaltenbrunner (head of the RSHA and Gestapo), and Rudolf Höss (commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp). An exclusive sixteen-page section of authentic historical photographs adds particular documentary value to the book. Due to its exceptional documentary authenticity and the fact that it was published in the very midst of global anticipation for the trial, this book represents essential reading for historians and all serious students of World War II history and the mechanisms of totalitarian barbarism.
