Simon Wiesenthal : the life and legends /
Tom Segev
- London : Jonathan Cape, 2010
- 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Eichmann is my passion -- We never took Hitler seriously then -- See you on the soap shelf -- Who knows her, who has seen her? -- The duty of an Austrian patriot -- That's how I became a stamp collector -- I hope you're not coming to see me -- I always said he's in Buenos Aires -- Sleuth with 6 million clients -- You may have thought he was happy, but he also cried sometimes -- A mass of rotten flesh -- Auschwitz lines -- What would you have done in my place? -- Kreisky's going mad -- Better than any monster -- Mr. Wiesenthal, I claim, had different relations with the Gestapo from mine -- It's not easy to be my wife -- The children are the same children -- Only so that Mengele's name would not be forgotten -- As if I were already dead -- Sleazenthal -- We all made mistakes in our youth.
Segev is able to reveal the intriguing secrets of Wiesenthal's life, including his stunning role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann, his controversial investigative techniques, his unlikely friendships with Kurt Waldheim and Albert Speer, and the nature of his rivalry with Elie Wiesel.
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