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In 1957, Dutch journalist Willem Sassen interviewed Adolf Eichmann for 70 hours over six months at his home in Buenos Aires. Sassen was a member of the Waffen-SS who also fled to Argentina. Sassen agreed not to publish the content of their conversations for as long as Eichmann was still alive.
Oct 22, 2023 · After World War II, Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann establishes a new life in Argentina, where he and fellow Nazi Willem Sassen record a comprehensive account of his career. More Duration 59 mins
Oct 22, 2023 · Escaping from postwar Europe, Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann establishes a new life in Argentina, where he meets fellow Nazi Willem Sassen. Together, they record a comprehensive account of his...
Jun 22, 2012 · Author Uki Goñi relates how the Adolf Eichmann interview sessions carried out by Willem Sassen came about in the mid-1950s. From the documentary "Profiel: Wi...
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Despite Eichmann insisting that he was merely “following orderings,” giving rise to Hannah Arendt’s phrase “the banality of evil,” the tapes, made four years before Eichmann’s trial, expose his “visceral, ideological antisemitism, his zeal for hunting down Jews and his role in the mechanics of mass murder, New York Times reporter Isabel Kershner wr...
The tapes tell a different story, however. In a recording made just four years prior, Eichmann can be heard telling Sassen that he “did not care” whether the Jews he sent to Auschwitz lived or died. During his trial, Eichmann professed that he never knew the fate of the Jewish civilians aboard the trains, yet in the tapes he proclaim that “Jews who...
The transcripts of the tapes were eventually sold to LIFE magazine after Eichmann’s arrest and published as a two-part series. They were, according to chief Israeli prosecutor Gideon Hausner, highly “cosmeticized.” The original tapes themselves were sold to a publishing house in Europe after Eichmann’s hanging, and, according to the Times, eventual...
The grandparents of both Sitt and Mozer were Holocaust survivors. “My grandmother lost all of her family in Krakow. She and her brother hid out in a closet in an attic for three years,” Sitt told The Jerusalem Post. “My grandfather, who twice jumped off a train, lost his entire family except for one brother.” For him, the documentary is a “tool to ...
Texts of the tapes of the interview held by Willem Sassen with Eichmann in Argentina, Part One, 1956
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Jun 17, 2022 · The recordings were made in 1957 by Dutch Nazi journalist Willem Sassen in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where Eichmann was hiding out. These recordings are now finally being made public in the...
