Germany Knew Eichmann's Hiding Place Years Before His Capture

[EveningStar]

Der Spiegel:

 

David Crossland

January 10, 2011

 

West Germany could have hunted down Adolf Eichmann, the chief organizer of the Holocaust, as early as 1952, eight years before Israeli agents caught him in Buenos Aires, according to a newly released document that suggests postwar Germany was unready and unwilling to put him on trial.

 

The revelation has been described as a sensation, and it sheds light on West Germany's reluctance to confront its past in the decades following the Holocaust.