Nazi Hunter : The Wiesenthal File

Summary

This is the remarkable story of a man who has become a legend in his own lifetime. Simon Wiesenthal spent four and a half years in Mauthausen concentration camp during the Second World War. With the exception of his wife, all his immediate family were exterminated, and he himself ended the war a living skeleton. Since then, he has achieved international renown for his tireless tracking down of Nazi war criminalsincluding his capture of Eichmann, the "desk murderer" who masterminded Hitler's Final Solution, and Stangl the overlord of Treblinkaand for his pursuit of Mengele of Auschwitz, the dreaded "Angel of Death." To this day his work continues, his motivation simply expressed in the words: "Justice, not vengeance." The accounts of inspired detective work that lie behind Wiesenthal's successful apprehension of the fugitives reads as excitingly as any thriller, but Alan Levy's book is much more than that. It is an award-winning examination of the work of one of the greatest Jewish figures of the twentieth century. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs bring to life this gripping account of the life-long pursuit of justice by the man who declared "So long as the criminals are free, the war has not ended for me." "Wiesenthal has played his part in a disturbing episode of post-war history. [A] readable and intelligent book."The Times (London)

Author Biography

Alan Levy is editor-in-chief of The Prague Post.

Prologue: Anti-Semitism without Jews

PART I: WIESENTHAL'S WARS

Deputy for the dead

(12)

The many liberations of Szymon Wiesenthal

(16)

Now begins the dying

(9)

Simon and the sunflower

(5)

When a Jew chooses to die

(13)

A Polish odyssey 1944

(7)

The last liberation 1945

(6)

Mornings in Mauthausen

(12)

`Don't forget our murderers!'

(7)

Wiesenthal's law

(7)

PART II: ADOLF EICHMANN

Eichmann the Zionist

(16)

Wannsee: the final solution

113

(9)

Eichmann the genocidist

122

(4)

Eichmann the fugitive

126

(12)

The Eichmann abduction

138

(18)

Should Eichmann die?

156

(7)

PART III: RAOUL WALLENBERG

Wallenberg the searcher

163

(8)

`I came to save a nation'

171

(31)

The Wallenberg disappearance

202

(13)

Enter Wiesenthal

215

(18)

PART IV: JOSEF MENGELE

Mengele the dilettante

233

(19)

The world's biggest battlefield

252

(9)

Mengele the fugitive

261

(28)

Death of a bionic `angel'

289

(7)

Post-mortems

296

(15)

PART V: FRANZ PAUL STANGL, GUSTAV WAGNER, HERMINE BRAUNSTEINER RYAN

Stangl the weaver

311

(16)

The man in the white jacket

327

(9)

Stangl's inferno

336

(19)

The secret bearers

355

(14)

The Stangl extradition

369

(12)

Wearing down Wagner

381

(5)

The mare of Majdanek went to Germany

386

(21)

PART VI: BRUNO KREISKY, KURT WALDHEIM

The Jewish Chancellor

407

(20)

Waldheim the conscience

427

(17)

The man who wasn't there

444

(19)

The denazification of Lieutenant Waldheim

463

(16)

The man at the top

479

(17)

The prisoner of the Hofburg

496

(11)

Wiesenthal vs Waldheim

507

(10)

A letter from Waldheim to Wiesenthal

517

(8)

PART VII: EPISODES AND EPILOGUES

Wiesenthal vs Wiesel

525

(4)

A hero at nightfall

529

(15)

`I wish not to provoke the Lord'

544

(1)

Index

545

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