The Sercet Executioners: The Amazing True Story of the Death Squad That Tracked Down and Killed Nazi War Criminals

by Danny Baz

Infamous Nazi war criminal Dr Aribert Heim carried out grotesque, sadistic medical experiments on Jewish prisoners at the Mauthausen concentration camp, including the removal of human organs without anaesthetic, decapitating one murdered prisoner and using the skull as an exhibit, and even removing the tattooed flesh from another victim to make seat coverings for the camp commandant's private flat. Alerted of his imminent arrest in 1962, Heim disappeared. Alleged sightings followed over the folloiwing years in Egypt, Uruguay, Chile and Spain. Here, for the first time, is the dramatic true story of how a clandestine organisation operating outside of international law tracked down the 'Butcher of Mauthausen' and assassinated him. A secretive cell called 'The Owl' comprised if Vietnam War veterans and ex - secret agents, was created by a former concentration camp prisoner who later became a wealthy oil magnate and deciated an unlimited budget to eliminating Nazis who had fled justice after World War II.

Genres: Nonfiction, Historical

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Debra N · Rating 1 out of 5]

What I had hoped was going to be good reading was in fact very boring. Shame.

[Paul · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book proved interesting to read, mainly due to the fact that I had heard very little about Aribert Heim or his actions at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Despite saying this, I found the book to be surprisingly disappointing with how it managed to handle the story it told. I chose to use the term 'story', as I doubted the accuracy of what I read. At times, it felt the story was not progressing anywhere, almost as if the author was trying to extend the overall length of the book. At times, it felt as if it was going around in circles, with Danny Baz painting a tale more of the painstaking work that would go into hunting down a target such as Aribert Heim.

It made an entertaining read, even if it did not make for a historically believable one. If it was prove to be historically accurate, I could see myself enjoying the read more. I prefer books that are marketed as historically accurate to actually be historically accurate, rather than a tale about how an assassination could have happened.

[Jemera Rone · Rating 1 out of 5]

Death Squad is right: this is the tale of a group of self-appointed vigilantes who assassinated their Nazi enemies in the 1980s in violation of national and international law.

[Bill McFadyen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fascinating tale but would have benefited from being 50 pages shorter .