Michael Boehmcke Mrs. Vermillion AP Language and Composition 16 March 2018 The Search for A Killer In 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, initiating World War II, as well as laying the ground work for what became known as the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, the German extermination of millions of European Jews. In The Nazi Hunters, Neal Bascomb describes the hunt after the war for Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi who oversaw the deliverance of the Jews to the extermination camps. At the end of the war, Eichmann disappeared without a trace. The initial war crimes investigators managed to secure one photograph of Eichmann for reference but could find no further trace to where he lived. Even Eichmann’s wife and sons had no information on his …show more content…
The evidence was simply the alias that Eichmann went by in Argentina, “Ricardo Klement.” Mossad was convinced to reopen the investigation into the whereabouts of the man who had orchestrated their people’s extermination and began to pursue Eichmann through every possible avenue. ` Eventually the agents traced Klement to a rundown shack on the edge of town, and they were again struck by the poverty that the orchestrator of their people’s deaths lived in, and how he had fallen. The agents, however, were not deterred and confirmed the man’s identity as Adolf Eichmann, before beginning to orchestrate a plan. The plan was to grab Klement on the walk from his bus to his home, on the dark streets of the shanty-town he lived in. The team struggled to find all the proper accommodations, experiencing troubles ranging from uncertainty in flight plans, personnel, and even the necessity for a safe house to hold the prisoner in. They were to leave on an El Al flight from Argentina to Damascus, a risky flight since planes were not as reliable as they are
On Hitler’s Mountain is a memoir of a child named Irmgard Hunt and her experiences growing up in Nazi Germany. She herself has had many experiences of living during that dark time, she actually met Hitler, had a grandfather who hated Hitler's rule, and had no thoughts or feelings about the Nazi rule until the end of WWII. Her memoir is a reminder of what can happen when an ordinary society chooses a cult of personality over rational thought. What has happened to the German people since then, what are they doing about it today and how do they feel about their past? Several decades later, with most Nazis now dead or in hiding, and despite how much Germany has done to prevent another Nazi rule, everyone is still ashamed of their ancestors’ pasts.
The Gestapo was an information gathering and law enforcing body of the Nazi regime, which began its operation in 1933. The organization has been examined though many lenses, some more popular than others. The article, “ The Gestapo and German Society” by Robert Gellately argues how ultimately it was society that fueled the Gestapo’s power beyond the limits of what they could have achieved without society’s help. Other perspectives into the analysis of the Gestapo have included the organizations legal history and insights into key leaders such as Henirich Himmler. What some of these other perspectives lack is a thorough assessment of the Gestapo’s operations. Gellately created a compelling argument by determining what led to a Gestapo case being initiated and the number of employees per branch compared to the population to conclude that the Gestapo lacked the physical resources to be the motor of the terror system within the Nazi regime. Yet, the author leaves room to argue that German society had adequate reason to fear the brutal behaviour of the Gestapo regardless of private citizen’s cooperation in cases.
The Web. The Web. 06 Feb. 2014. Bascomb, Neal. A. Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased down the World's Most Notorious Nazi.
Adolf Eichmann was a high-ranking German officer who was one of a few top-ranking officials responsible for the "legal work" of the extermination of millions of Jews. He was a wanted Nazi war criminal because he escaped just before the end of World War II. He was not immediately captured and thus evaded the Nuremberg Trials as he fled to the country of Argentina where he attempted to fade into history. Israeli secret service agents somehow managed to track Eichmann down, kidnap him, and bring him back to Israel to face the consequences of his past. Throughout the trial, Eichmann's defense was simply that he was basically a puppet of Nazi Germany saying that he was "a tool in the hands of superior powers and authorities."
Poland was devastated when German forces invaded their country on September 1, 1939, marking the beginning of World War II. Still suffering from the turmoil of World War I, with Germany left in ruins, Hitler's government dreamt of an immense, new domain of "living space" in Eastern Europe; to acquire German dominance in Europe would call for war in the minds of German leaders (World War II in Europe). The Nazis believed the Germans were racially elite and found the Jews to be inferior to the German population. The Holocaust was the discrimination and the slaughter of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its associates (Introduction to the Holocaust). The Nazis instituted killing centers, also known as “extermination camps” or “death camps,” for being able to resourcefully take part in mass murder (Killing Centers: An Overview).
The organization of the argument of this paper is not particularly imaginative since this writer “lists” elements in a strictly sequential order, but he or she demonstrates familiarity with a wide range of documents and concepts of the Reader while working closely with the specific language of the document he or she is presenting.
Dr. Efraim Zuroff is a Nazi hunter who started the organization Operation Last Chance which focuses on punishing Nazi war criminals while offering monetary rewards. Dr. Zuroff writes about his experiences as a Nazi hunter in his book Operation Last Chance: One Man’s Quest to bring Nazi Criminals to Justice which came out in 2009. (Dr. Efraim Zuroff OPERATION LAST CHANCE) The Houston Holocaust Museum invited him to come speak to the community on November 23, 2015 to discuss his experience as a Nazi hunter. Dr. Zuroff is not only a Nazi hunter but, also a historian and throughout his speech he often referred to the history of the Holocaust and how the travesty is presented in different countries. Dr.Zuroff did not use much technology throughout
As the Ghettos (in Poland) were quickly filling in occupants, the Nazi Party started ‘Mobile Killing Squads’, which traveled from one neighborhood to another ripping Jews from their home and killing (using gas vans or guns) them in the street. But, this method proved inefficient with the number of Jewish People who ran, and the number of killers that were being affected by the gases. This then caused the anti-Semitic party to start sending Jews to the six extermination camps throughout Poland. Which according to Paul B. Kern was all a part of the Final Solution.
“The Holocaust is the most investigated crime in history, as has often been pointed out in response to deniers. Eichmann may be that crime’s most investigated criminal” (Sells, Michael A.). Adolf Eichmann was one of the head Nazis. He had a lot of authority in enacting what Hitler had told the Nazis to do. He was just about as responsible as Hitler was for killing all of those innocent
After World War II the world began to here accounts of the atrocities and crimes committed by the Nazi’s to the Jews and other enemies of the Nazis. The international community wanted answers and called for the persecution of the criminals that participated in the murder of millions throughout Europe. The SS was responsible for playing a leading role in the Holocaust for the involvement in the death of millions of innocent lives. Throughout, Europe concentration camps were established to detain Jews, political prisoners, POW’s and enemies of the Third Reich. The largest camp during World War II was Auschwitz under the command of SS Lieutenant Colonel Rudolf Hoess; Auschwitz emerged as the site for the largest mass murder in the history of the world. (The, 2005)
Is Justice worth having to accomplish even from sacrifices you have to make due to that person's crime?
Instead, he is simply blinded by his desire to complete his tasks correctly rather than think twice about the effects and outcomes his actions cause. AT the same time, I think that Eichmann is an obedient, insensitive, and mindless man that doesn’t seem to entirely understand what his actions are causing to the Jewish people and lives to “impress the boss” and be obedient to his tasks, he cannot participate in such horrific events without being an anti-Semite. Therefore, I believe that while Eichmann is an Anti-Semite, he is still a victim of “thoughtlessness,” as Arendt
First of all I’d like to say that I thought this book was phenomenally written. I really enjoyed this book which came off as a surprise to me due to the fact that I don’t read very often or even slightly enjoy doing so. However, right from the beginning not only did the book catch my attention but it maintained it throughout the entire thing. Author Primo Levi decided to make the point of view for his book through his eyes because it not only gives the book a very realistic and heartfelt feel but it’s also what he personally experienced. However, there are a few times in which Levi thinks back at what happens and uses past tense.
Jews, a religious group of people originating from Israel, have lived in Europe, including Germany, for about 1500 years (Carr; Shyovitz). As Jews moved away from Israel, agriculture was no longer their main form of breadwinning. They have become more educated and many acquired skilled professions. In Europe, Christians were not allowed to lend money and the Jews have become the main money lenders. The knowledge, skills, and money lending abilities that Jews possessed allowed them to become extremely prosperous. During 1000-1500, most Rulers in Europe were Christians, who disliked the Jews (Carr). Although they lived peacefully with their neighbors, Christians blamed
When the infamous Hitler began his reign in Germany in 1933, 530,000 Jews were settled in his land. In a matter of years the amount of Jews greatly decreased. After World War II, only 15,000 Jews remained. This small population of Jews was a result of inhumane killings and also the fleeing of Jews to surrounding nations for refuge. After the war, emaciated concentration camp inmates and slave laborers turned up in their previous homes.1 Those who had survived had escaped death from epidemics, starvation, sadistic camp guards, and mass murder plants. Others withstood racial persecution while hiding underground or living illegally under assumed identities and were now free to come forth. Among all the survivors, most wished not to return to Germany because the memories were too strong. Also, some become loyal to the new country they had entered. Others feared the Nazis would rise again to power, or that they would not be treated as an equal in their own land. There were a few, though, who felt a duty to return to their home land, Germany, to find closure and to face the reality of the recent years. 2 They felt they could not run anymore. Those survivors wanted to rejoin their national community, and show others who had persecuted them that they could succeed.