Tom Segev

Simon Wiesenthal

The Life and Legends

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Produktbeschreibung

With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations Now in paperback, the first fully documented biography of the legendary Polish-born Nazi hunter-a revelatory account of a man whose life, though part invention, was wholly dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for their crimes and that their destruction of European Jewry never be forgotten. Within days of being liberated from the Mauthausen concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal had assembled a list of nearly 150 Nazi war criminals, the first of dozens of such lists he would compile over a lifetime as a Nazi hunter. A hero in the eyes of many, Wiesenthal was also attacked for his unrelenting pursuit of justice for crimes committed in a past that many preferred to forget. With access to Wiesenthal's private papers and to American, East German, and Israeli government archives, Tom Segev sheds new light on Wiesenthal's most closely guarded secrets: his true role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann, his connection to Isreal's Mossad, his controversial investigative techniques, his unlikely friendships with Kurt Waldheim and Albert Speer, his rivalry with Elie Wiesel-making clear that the truth of Wiesenthal's existence was far more complex and compelling than the legends (often of his own making) that surrounded him.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 134mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9780805212082
• ISBN-10: 0805212086
• Artikelnr.: 34162855

Autorenporträt

Tom Segev is the award-winning author of seven works of nonfiction. A columnist for Haaretz, Israel’s leading daily newspaper, he lives in Jerusalem.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
 
Introduction: The Glass Box 
1. “Eichmann Is My Passion” 
2. “During That Period, We Never Took Hitler Seriously” 
3. “See You on the Soap Shelf”
4. “Who Knows Her? Who Has Seen Her?”
5. “The Duty of an Austrian Patriot”
6. “That’s How I Became a Stamp Collector”
7. “I Hope You’re Not Coming to See Me” 
8. “I Always Said He’s in Buenos Aires”
9. “Sleuth with 6 Million Clients”
10. “You May Have Thought He Was Happy, But He Also Cried Sometimes”
11. “A Huge Mass of Rotten Flesh”
12. “Auschwitz Lines”
13. “What Would You Have Done?”
14. “Kreisky Is Going Mad”
15. “Better Than Any Monster”
16. “Mr. Wiesenthal, I Claim, Had Different Relations with the Gestapo from
Mine”
17. “It’s Not Easy to Be My Wife”
18. “The Children . . . Were Actually the Same Children”
19. “Only So That Mengele’s Name Would Not Be Forgotten”
20. “As If I Were Already Dead”
21. “Sleazenthal”
22. “We All Made Mistakes in Our Youth” 
Acknowledgments
Notes