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The Eichmann Tapes: My Role in the Final Solution
Adolf Eichmann was head of Gestapo Division IV-B4, the Third Reich's notorious Security Service, and he was responsible for implementing the "Final Solution" of the European Jews in the Greater German Reich. Though arrested at the end of the war by the U.S. army, Eichmann succeeded in escaping from U.S. custody in 1946 and lived unnoticed in Germany and Austria until 1950, when he travelled to Argentina. While living in Buenos Aires, Eichmann produced a series of tape recordings, and hand written notes, giving a very open and incriminating account of his role in the Final Solution, and Eichmann declares that this is indeed the only testimony that he wishes to be considered as genuine and not dictated under duress. In 1960 the Israeli Intelligence Service Mossad, succeeded in tracing Eichmann to Argentina. They captured him, and on May 21 he was flown to Israel, where he was tried by the Israeli Court in 1961, found guilty and hanged on May 31, 1962. After his courtroom testimony in Israel, in August 1961, Eichmann wrote an additional testimony that he called "False Gods." The English translation of "False Gods," is also published by Black House Publishing, and is a companion to this volume. This book provides an incriminating account of Eichmann's role in the wholesale murder of the Jews in Europe, and establishes the scope of the anti-Jewish measures undertaken in the Third Reich and the gradual development of these measures from emigration to concentration to large-scale murder. The reader of Eichmann's memoirs will thus obtain not only a vivid impression of the extensive police operations of the Third Reich but also a glimpse into the ideological and political motivations of these actions, motivations that were perhaps not fully shared by Eichmann himself.
328 pages, Paperback
Published October 27, 2015
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December 23, 2015
Is this serious? Honestly, do a search on the CODOH forum for the title of this book: The Eichmann Tapes - My Role in the Final Solution
There you will find a thread called: Eichmann tapes
The relevant section discussing this book is on page three of the thread but it is worth reading the whole thread.
Honestly, after reading the thread, specifically page 3, then you won't be able to take this book seriously.
These tapes are NOT available to verify, scrutinise, etc. It is all hearsay.
Just read the thread.
There you will find a thread called: Eichmann tapes
The relevant section discussing this book is on page three of the thread but it is worth reading the whole thread.
Honestly, after reading the thread, specifically page 3, then you won't be able to take this book seriously.
These tapes are NOT available to verify, scrutinise, etc. It is all hearsay.
Just read the thread.
November 22, 2016
A very interesting look at the thought processes of Eichmann whilst still on the run in Argentina.Eichmann comes across as a smug bastard never once showing sympathy for the innocent human beings he was sending to die,nauseatingly he seeks to emphasise how good he was to Jews he met or had dealings with.
At one point he tells of the moment his superior Heydrich reveals to him Hitler has ordered physical extermination.It doesn't provoke outrage,horror or disgust to be told this,he just gets on with the planning.Repeatedly Eichmann reinforces that he never personally killed anyone,all he did is supervise the rounding up of Jews and their transport to the concentration camps.He was simply following orders which he had to fulfil because of his oath to Hitler.-so he shouldn't be blamed for anything from his point of view.
If your looking at Eichmann to produce any sorrow for the victims of the Nazis you won't find it here,the man (I'm loathe to call him that) reveals himself to be a robot with no semblance of empathy or human emotion,Eichmann remained a Nazi till his dying day.
At one point he tells of the moment his superior Heydrich reveals to him Hitler has ordered physical extermination.It doesn't provoke outrage,horror or disgust to be told this,he just gets on with the planning.Repeatedly Eichmann reinforces that he never personally killed anyone,all he did is supervise the rounding up of Jews and their transport to the concentration camps.He was simply following orders which he had to fulfil because of his oath to Hitler.-so he shouldn't be blamed for anything from his point of view.
If your looking at Eichmann to produce any sorrow for the victims of the Nazis you won't find it here,the man (I'm loathe to call him that) reveals himself to be a robot with no semblance of empathy or human emotion,Eichmann remained a Nazi till his dying day.
December 23, 2015
Is this serious? Honestly, do a search on the CODOH forum for the title of this book: The Eichmann Tapes - My Role in the Final Solution
There you will find a thread called: Eichmann tapes
The relevant section discussing this book is on page three of the thread but it is worth reading the whole thread.
Honestly, after reading the thread, specifically page 3, then you won't be able to take this book seriously.
These tapes are NOT available to verify, scrutinise, etc. It is all hearsay.
Just read the thread.
There you will find a thread called: Eichmann tapes
The relevant section discussing this book is on page three of the thread but it is worth reading the whole thread.
Honestly, after reading the thread, specifically page 3, then you won't be able to take this book seriously.
These tapes are NOT available to verify, scrutinise, etc. It is all hearsay.
Just read the thread.
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