The Nazi Hunters Essay

“Adolf Eichmann went to the gallows with great dignity. He had asked for a bottle of red wine and had drunk half of it. He refused the help of the Protestant minister the Reverend William Hull who offered to read the Bible with him: he had only two more hours to live and therefore no “time to waste.” He walked the fifty yards from his cell to the execution chamber calm and erect with his hands bound behind him. When the guards tied his ankles and knees he asked them to loosen the bonds so that he could stand straight. “I don’t need that ” he said when the black hood was offered him. He was in complete command of himself nay he was more: he was completely himself. Nothing could have demonstrated this more convincingly than the grotesque silliness of his last words. He began by stating emphatically that he was a Gottgläubiger to express in common Nazi fashion that he was no Christian and did not believe in life after death. He then proceeded: “After a short while gentlemen we shall all meet again. Such is the fate of all men. Long live Germany long live Argentina long live Austria. I

Two of which were the parents of Herschel Grynszpan, a teenager living in Paris at the time his parents were taken away. When he heard of his parents being forced out of their home, he was infuriated. The next day, he bought a pistol and five bullets. On November 7, 1938, he walked into the Third Secretary’s office and shot at him. Two of the five made contact, but it wasn’t enough to kill him until three days later. While in the hospital fighting for his life, newspapers started talking about the event, calling Jews murderers. A few synagogues were burned and 70 Jews were killed while the official was in the hospital. Then on November 9, 1938, Ernst vom Rath was officially declared dead from his injuries. When Hilter heard the news he allowed it to continue and told the police to withdraw forces (Hilbert

“The future of the German nation depends on its youth and the German youth shall have to be prepared for its future duties”

During the time period in which the Lindbergh Kidnapping case took place, there were various speculations that occurred affecting Hauptmann’s chance to an unbiased and fair trial. As stated earlier, the case had taken place around the time of contention with American and German relations. Charles Lindbergh

conducting his research. After leaving the United States Army in 1947, Wiesenthal and other volunteers opened the Jewish Historical Documentation Centre, which assisted with the evidence for war crime trials. Yet, as the Cold War began, the association collapsed. All of the documents and research evidence were given away, except for one important document about Adolf Eichmann, who was the one that supervised the “Final Solution” technique during the war. Eichmann was never heard of after the war and he remained incognito. At last, in 1959, Germany informed that Eichmann was in Buenos Aires, and was found guilty for mass destruction of the Jews. This brought more and more successes to Wiesenthal. He later organized another Jewish Documentation Centre and hunted war criminals such as Karl Silberbauer, who arrested an innocent Jewish girl.

During the postwar, Mengele was detained by allied forces until they released him. He would continue to move across the continent until his captors were got closer to him. He gained access to a “Red Cross passport in 1949 and escaped to South America, where he spent 30 years traveling through Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil.” He would steal other Nazi member's identities in which he would always elude the authorities. He would travel “….under a host of fake names: Fritz Fischer, Walter Hasek, Dr. Helmut Gregor-Gregori, José Aspiazi, Friedrich Edler von Breitenbach, Dr. Henrique Wollmann and, finally, Wolfgang Gerhard.” While in running, Mengele did not see he was wanted for his war crimes. Even as the courts wanted to have justice many of his

Did the victims know they were being sent to their death? That is a tough question to answer because the victims were told they were being transported to labor camps, but after 1942 a trip to a "labor camp" meany in reality deportation to killing centers and then their death.

The year was 1942, and many Jews were living in Paris, France. The French didn’t have a problem with the Jewish people, but the Germans did. Germans had ended up taking over the French Administration, and the Anti-Jewish Policies were all worked up. July 16th was the night that everything changed. Around 4,500 French policemen began a huge arrest on the Jewish people. There was around 11,000 Jews arrested and placed into the winter stadium. The prisoners were kept in crowded conditions without food or water.

This advice would eventually help him become the aptly nicknamed “Jewish Specialist” of the S.S, after months of military training and being promoted to SS-Scharführer (Sergeant) he was transferred to the main office of security, Sicherheitsdienst (SD)-Hauptamt in 1934. His job was mainly the monitoring of Zionist organizations (Jewish people who believed in the reuniting of the Jewish Holy land of Israel.) Eichmann mostly negotiated with the organization and inspected Palestine under the false belief that he would help them settle the holy land or as he called it, "Zionist emigration of Jews from Germany by all [available] means" (USHMM.Org, Unknown Author) During the Anschluss (Annexation of Austria), he performed a small raid on a Jewish Community office. After the Annexation he played a pivotal role in the setting up of The Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna, the Office opened on August 20th, 1938. The Office supposedly emigrated over 110,000 Austrian jews from August 1939 to June 1939 and was successful that it was used as a basis for other deportation offices, the method was coined “The Vienna Model” because the office was based in Vienna. In October of 1939 Eichmann was put in charge of the central office, although he was less successful during his first attempt, but led the propaganda against Czech

To make sure it was him, spies spent months tracking him down every second of every day. They watched him as he left his house for work, when he came home, and what he did at his house. When they had it confirmed, operation capture Eichmann was set in stone. More agents were sent from Israel to bring Eichmann back for a trial. Isser Harel was the head of the Mossad, the intelligence agency of Israel. Many of these men kept their mission hidden from everyone they knew, including their own families. Their job was dangerous, since the Argentinian government could imprison them if they were

Most of the people who were put on trial escaped by committing suicide, running away, or some were just let go. Hitler the leader of them all committed suicide before they could even put him on trial. The minister Jospeh Goebbels and chief Herrich Himmler followed in Hitler's steps by committing suicide before the trials. Some who ran away such as Adolf Eichmann, got

On April 5, 1943 the gestapo came for Dietrich Bonhoeffer. “His arrest warrant charged him with "destruction of fighting power." In addition to a history of preaching against the Nazis' anti-Semitic (anti-Jewish) policies, he was jailed for his role in assisting Jews to escape from Germany.(UXL Biographies)” He soon was transferred to a concentration camp with some other prisoners, Payne Best a fellow prisoner recounted the scene of when the hangman came for him. “We bade him good-bye—he drew me aside—“This is the end,” he said. “For me the beginning of life.”(Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet,

In the Holocaust not only were the Jews killed so were a group of people called the Gypsies. 1 million to 4 million Gypsies were killed in the worst ways with no remorse. But why would this happen to the Gypsies if they didn’t do anything? They didn’t consider the Gypsies Germans. The reason all this started was because of a theory that the Germans made. Nazi Aryan Racial Theory is known as a racial designation; Houston Stewart Chamberian was the first to use the term “Aryan” to mean the “white race” it was the Aryans who invaded the conquered ancient India from the north. The Aryan Race Theory was a way that Germans were segregated in many different ways. This started in the 1700s when scholars discovered Sanskrit was closely related to the European

He described Eichmann as "one of the greatest of the Nazi war criminals".Reports in Israel spoke of a daring operation carried out by the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, to seize Eichmann from Argentina where he had been living under an assumed identity. Adolf Eichmann was tried for crimes against humanity. In the jailhouse writings, Eichmann, a former traveling salesman, tried to put distance between himself and the Nazi genocide, claiming he was just a official. His only defense was that he was "on the lowest rung," that his "position was too insignificant," and he declared repeatedly, "I had to obey." And Eichmann conveyed no reaction to the horrors that were presented in court. On 2 December 1961 Eichmann was sentenced to death for crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against all mankind. On May 31, 1962, the State of Israel carried out the only death sentence in its history on the man whose only defense was, "I was just following

Nazi Germany "The most important reason as to why there was little opposition in Germany towards the nazi regime because of its propaganda" I agree with this statement because everything to a certain extent was propaganda, speeches posters and radio and the Hitler youth movements. So this statement is quite true In my essay I am going to show methods of propaganda, opposition to the nazis , how propaganda and what I think is the best method for controlling German.