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knew he was a dead man walking and that he would hang. He
simply spoke the truth. For Eichmann the "truth" was the inferiority
of Jews.
It's a puzzle to me, how those Ole' Sly and Crafty Jews could persuade
so many thousands (millions?) of Gentiles to lie to us about the
Holocaust. American, English, French, and Russian Soldiers, SS
members, non-Jewish victims, etc. all testify to the reality. Seems
to me that if they all lied, that someone, somewhere would have by now
admitted the "deception".
Amazing, isn't it?
RO
Eichmann also said things like:
"one mass grave from which "blood was gu****ng out ... like a geyser,"
although it had already been filled in);
.. The gushering geysers are a nice touch, and jibe well with the
propensity
of other "Holocaust" mass graves to quake and spew forth blood, sometimes
for months after the killings; Treblinka, however, is supposed not to have
been functioning as an extermination center until the summer of 1942, nor
was Zyklon-B ever claimed to have been employed there.
Eichmann Interrogated: Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli Police
a.. Eichmann Interrogated: Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli
Police, edited by Jochen von Lang in collaboration with Claus Sibyll.
Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,
New
York, 1983, 293pp.
reviewed by Ted O'Keefe
The kidnapping, trial, and execution of Adolf Eichmann, the German officer
alleged by the Israelis to have played a central role in the killing of
six
million Jews in the years 1941 to 1944, have attracted vast attention and
endless comment. Much of this has dealt with ethical or even metaphysical
issues: Eichmann's justification in claiming that he was merely carrying
out
his orders, "the banality of evil," and the like. This book, which
pur****ts
to be a translation of selected transcripts of Eichman's nine-month
interrogation by the Israeli Police, presents a fairly detailed account of
Eichmann's alleged misdeeds and attempts to establish that he was "in fact
the flywheel of [the] merciless extermination machine."
The transcripts, which were translated from German to English by Ralph
Manheim, well known for his translation of Mein Kampf, are conceded by
their
editors, Jochen von Lang and Claus Sibyll, to have been "collated ... so
as
to present the record in logical and chronological order." Like anything
which comes out of Israel, particularly when it touches on the "Holocaust"
tale, their authenticity is open to considerable doubt. Nevertheless,
despite the pains of the Israelis, as well as the editors and translator,
the Eichmann transcripts, when carefully studied, offer considerable
ammunition to revisionists of the Extermination myth.
The reader will doubtless be surprised to learn that Eichmann's
interrogation was carried out by the Israeli Police Force, a national
organization comparable in its duties and function to the British national
police headquartered at Scotland Yard. The details of Eichmann's
surveillance and capture remain murky, despite several accounts, at least
one of them pur****tedly by former Mossad chief Isser Harel, but few doubt
that Harel's shadowy spy and terror directorate played a commanding role
in
the affair. The most interesting conversations between Eichmann and the
Israelis were between the former SS Obersturmbannführer and the Mossad,
particularly in light of his many dealings with Zionist leaders and
agents,
from his trip to Palestine in 1937 with Haganah operative Feivel Polkes to
his contacts with Raoul Wallenberg in 1944.
It is interesting to learn from the introduction by Avner Less, the
German-born policeman who questioned Eichmann, that of the thirty-man team
charged with preparing the interrogation "no one ... had detailed
knowledge
of the Holocaust." Since the interrogation team had to "plow through" the
voluminous records of the Nuremberg trials, as well as material supplied
by
the Yad Vashem center, it is clear that Less and his helpers lacked a
coherent account of the activities Eichmann had been arrested for, and
were
conducting an investigation and an interrogation simultaneously. This goes
far to explain the ineptitude often exhibited by Less in this edition of
the
transcripts, which doubtless were edited to put the Israeli case in the
best
light.
Captain Less's ignorance of Eichmann's career (he admits in his
introduction
that Gerald Reitlinger's Final Solution "became almost a bible" for him),
didn't stop him from attempting to create an all-encompassing role for his
prisoner as architect of the "Final Solution," which for Less means the
systematic murder of the Jews of German-occupied Europe. The do***entary
evidence presented by Less as to Eichmann's role in promoting Jewish
emigration from Austria, the Czech lands which then formed the
"protectorate" of Bohemia and Moravia, and Germany proper, as well as for
his part in organizing the de****tation of Jews from various European
countries to ghettoes and camps in territories to the east of the German
Reich, is for the most part credible. As to Eichmann's activities in other
facets of the "Final Solution," however, there is grave doubt, even when
Eichmann is presented as admitting to them, as he does often in these
transcripts. In inflating Eichmann's role in the "Holocaust" story to the
stature claimed for it in the testimony of a number of his subordinates in
the "war crimes" proceedings, the Israelis have created a dilemma for
themselves from which escape is a difficult matter indeed.
In this effort to build up Eichmann as the managing director of
Exterminationism they've been more poorly served by the editors, Lang and
Sibyll, and their translator, Manheim, than they may imagine. All three
are
fussy pedants of a particularly Teutonic mold who seldom miss an
op****tunity
to catch an error, no matter how minor, if it will detract from the
credibility of an Eichmann or a Hitler (readers of Mein Kampf in Manheim's
translation will recall his quibbling at the author's every minor lapse,
and
his assurance that Hitler's use of classical allusions carries no proof
that
he's familiar with the original works). If Eichmann's forgotten a date or
mixed up a time sequence, the editors' intervention is swift and
implacable.
All the more damning, therefore, that Eichmann is unchallenged by
interrogator, editors, or translator in a whole series of ludicrous
mistakes
about the version of the "Holocaust" that currently enjoys the imprimatur
of
recognized Exterminationist experts. The ex-SS officer claims to have
witnessed mass slaughter on a grand scale at Auschwitz in the fall of
1941,
where the camp commandant, Rudolf Höss, informed him that the great,
factory- like buildings, the chimneys of which belch smoke, are "working
to
capacity: Ten thousand!" This months before the Auschwitz crematoria were
constructed, let alone in use. In a Cook's tour of mass murder sites which
Eichmann claims he took that memorable Fall, on the urging of Gestapo
chief
Heinrich Mueller and Reich Security Main Office head Reinhard Heydrich, he
obligingly admits to visiting half a dozen places where killings are
already
being carried out, including Treblinka-although he's not sure if it's
Treblinka-where gassings are being carried out with a submarine engine;
places near Minsk and Lemberg, where mass shootings are taking place
(including one mass grave from which "blood was gu****ng out ... like a
geyser," although it had already been filled in); and again Treblinka
(this
time there's no doubt: phony railway station and all) where gassings are
being carried out with the insecticide Zyklon-B. The gushering geysers are
a
nice touch, and jibe well with the propensity of other "Holocaust" mass
graves to quake and spew forth blood, sometimes for months after the
killings; Treblinka, however, is supposed not to have been functioning as
an
extermination center until the summer of 1942, nor was Zyklon-B ever
claimed
to have been employed there.
As has been stated, these minor absurdities don't seem to have perturbed
Captain Less, who throughout the remainder of Eichmann Interrogated skips
merrily from do***ent to do***ent, confronting his prisoner time and time
again with allegedly damning accusations culled from affidavits and bills
of
lading, passenger lists and confessions. in his efforts to have Eichmann
own
up to his full guilt. Although the prisoner does his best to be obliging
throughout the transcripts (Eichmann even offers substantiation for the
six-million claim-he says he's worked out the numbers from reading Jewish
almanacs), he persistently rejects the accusation that he was the
organizer
of the "Final Solution" or the "flywheel of the extermination machine."
Indeed, Eichmann is allowed to score occasionally some telling points. Why
carry several weeks provisions, footgear, and blankets, as one de****tation
order provides, if the de****tees are to be gassed as soon as they alight,
is
Eichmann's plaintive question, to which Less has no good reply. These
transcripts, organized and collated as they may be, offfer no
all-embracing
confession.
What has been worked out, however, with Eichmann's seeming agreement, is a
role as a sort of presiding genius of Exterminationism, intimately
involved
somehow in all its grisly details, sometimes to be sure only in the role
of
a voyeur, gaping at mass slaughters from Kulmhof (which Eichmann calls in
these transcripts Kulm, for the most part), at other times implicated by
bits of paper which have flowed through his office or across his desk; in
a
word, an Erich Dorf avant la lettre (and the reader will surmise that the
fictional Dorf was awarded his subsidiary but all- encompassing part in
the
Holocaust of the novel and the docudrama because Greater Ones than he were
privileged to be giving out orders, and more brutal men than he were
allowed
to carry them out).
The propaganda bonanza which Israel reaped from the Eichmann affair was
necessarily transitory. Unfortunately for the proponents of the
"Holocaust"
tale, Eichmann Interrogated will be around for a long time.
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