The Nazi Hunters Chapter Summary

To make sure it was him, spies spent months tracking him down every second of every day. They watched him as he left his house for work, when he came home, and what he did at his house. When they had it confirmed, operation capture Eichmann was set in stone. More agents were sent from Israel to bring Eichmann back for a trial. Isser Harel was the head of the Mossad, the intelligence agency of Israel. Many of these men kept their mission hidden from everyone they knew, including their own families. Their job was dangerous, since the Argentinian government could imprison them if they were

The Eichmann trial reveals a lot about the strengths and limitations of the “the trial” to achieve justice in such cases. The reason of a trial is to render justice; even the ethical of underlying motives, as mentioned in the novel, “the making of a record of the Hitler regime which the withstand the test of history… Nuremburg Trials, can only detract the laws main business: to weigh the charges brought against the accused, to render judgement, and to mete out due punishment” (253). The judgement in the Eichmann case, whose first two sections had been written in respond to the better cause idea as it was changed into expanded both inside and outside the out room, could not have been clearer in this respect. As proven in the novel, it states

On March 19th, 1944, Lieutenant Colonel Karl Adolf Eichmann, stood at the head of one-hundred and forty military vehicles. It was his twenty-eighth birthday. On this day, he was doing no other than finding Hungary’s 750,000 Jewish individuals; deciding if anyone was physically fit to be transferred to labor camps or to be executed on the spot. Contrary to popular belief, Karl Adolf Eichmann was the enforcer of the Holocaust because militarily he was executing The Final Solution.

Eichmann built a defense during his trial by arguing that he was not responsible for his actions because he was acting under orders and in accordance with the law of his land. Since his orders came from Adolf Hitler himself, Eichmann

In the beginning the Neal talks about how Eichmann the SS officer learned how to efficiently move the Jews into smaller areas where they were then placed in the camps. First he would isolate all of the jews into one area. Then he would take all there money and anything else valuable. Lastly he would move them into

In the article, “The Boys Who Fought the Nazis” by Kristen Lewis, three teenage boys named Karl, Helmuth, and Rudi risked everything to fight the Nazis with the power of writing because they knew that Hitler was cruel and wrong. In July of 1941, Helmuth found an illegal short-wave radio that picked up foreign channels that would speak about Hitler and his terrible actions. Listening to the stations were “forbidden, and the penalties were severe” for anyone who did so in Germany (8). Karl, Helmuth, and Rudi would get together to listen to the Britain station that told what no one else in the country had the courage to say. Hitler was lying and putting his soldiers into battles that couldn’t be won. Although the boys now knew the truth about

1) Germany before the Fuhrer. Germany’s defeat at the end of World War I left the nation socially, politically, and economically shattered. The reparation agreements inflicted upon Germany without its’ consent at the end of the war meant that the nation was in complete financial ruin. In the wake of Germany’s defeat, public decent climaxed on the 9th November 1918 during the revolution that took place on Berlin’s Postdamer Platz. This revolution transpired as a result of the public’s culminating discontent towards the imperial monarchy, and lasted up until August 1919, which saw the establishment of the Weimar Republic. In attempts to guide Germany out of economic

This book takes place sometime during the 1960s after the Second World War. Some Germans would rather forget it ever happened than acknowledge the disgraceful events that took place during World War II “Adolf Eichmann's trial began on April 11, 1961 in Jerusalem, Israel. Eichmann was

‘Is Eichmann a rotten, soiled and evil man, and were his motivations boring, mundane and obvious?’ Why did Eichmann kill so many Jews if he ‘supposedly’ no real hate or motivation to do it?

Peter Fritzche’s book, Germans into Nazis, contends that, “Germans became Nazis because they wanted to become Nazis and because the Nazis spoke so well to their interests and inclinations…however, voters did not back Hitler mainly because they share his hatred of the Jews…but because they departed from established political traditions in that they were identified at once with a distinctly popular form of ethnic nationalism and with the basic social reforms most Germans counted on to ensure national well-being.” (8-9) His argument rests on the notion that the Nazis had a vision for Germany that incorporated Germans into a national community, throwing off the restraints of a tired government, and propelled them towards a future that would

A man who does not seem to be filled with rage, Eichmann can not been depicted as a satanic monster, clearly separate from citizens who fall under terms such as normal or sane. In fact, he was a man who's goals were similar to all working class people. Eichmann's desires to be an idealist and a successful businessman may draw sympathy, even though it is clearly taboo to consider someone normal if capable of participating in a genocide.

Over the past couple weeks, I have been reading Hitler’s Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World’s Most Notorious Dictator by Bill O’Reilly. The novel describes the days leading up to Adolf Hitler’s death, and how a series of brilliant tactical decisions by the soviets, ultimately ended the war on the eastern front. Hitler was hiding out in his Führerbunker, knowing the inevitability of the soviet troops finding him, in the already soviet-occupied Berlin. As the soviets advanced further, closing in on Hitler’s bunker, Hitler knew his fate was dawning closer. He was residing in the bunker with his girlfriend Eva Braun, and many officers. Eva and Adolf got married, and shortly after, they both took their own lives. Adolf took a

conducting his research. After leaving the United States Army in 1947, Wiesenthal and other volunteers opened the Jewish Historical Documentation Centre, which assisted with the evidence for war crime trials. Yet, as the Cold War began, the association collapsed. All of the documents and research evidence were given away, except for one important document about Adolf Eichmann, who was the one that supervised the “Final Solution” technique during the war. Eichmann was never heard of after the war and he remained incognito. At last, in 1959, Germany informed that Eichmann was in Buenos Aires, and was found guilty for mass destruction of the Jews. This brought more and more successes to Wiesenthal. He later organized another Jewish Documentation Centre and hunted war criminals such as Karl Silberbauer, who arrested an innocent Jewish girl.

Anti-semitism in Germany led by Adolf Hitler would back up a plan called the final solution, to exterminate all of the Jews in Europe. Out of the 100 million Jews aimed for extermination, 6 million of them were killed. On his path to German greatness, Jews became victim to inconceivable actions. First the Nuremberg Laws were passed which stripped Jews of their german citizenship, eliminating their opportunity to flee to other countries. After Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Hitler forcefully deported Jewish people into fenced confinements called ghettos. More Jews died here than in any extermination camp due to the harsh conditions and labor. Most people living in ghettos had no access to running water or a sewage system and overcrowding

Otto Adolf Eichmann was born on March 19, 1906 in Solingen, Germany. Both of his parents were Protestants. Protestants believe that Jesus is the head of the church. As a child Adolph was often teased and called “The little Jewish boy” because of his dark hair and completion. In school Adolf wasn’t a bad student, he was just average. When he turned eight years old, sadly his mother died. His father soon got remarried and soon Adolf had one sister and four brothers. At the age of ten he moved to Vienna with his father.