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Eichmann later called the Hoettl story about the 6 million number
"nonsense," denied ever having made the alleged remark, and
speculated that H? may have picked up the figure from a radio or
newspaper re****t.
von Lang, Eichmann Interrogated, pp. 164-165, 94-95, 110-117.
Eichmann Interrogated: Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli Police
http://www.amazon.com/Eichmann-Interrogated-Transcripts-Archives-Israeli/dp/0306809168
Apparently, there were 3 million Jews who died in the "Holocaust" of 6
million Jews who didn't have any family members. They are still unknown
and
unaccounted for, 63 years later.
Yad Vashem, The Martyrs Foundation:
"Twenty-seven years after the end of World War II, the Jews are still
counting and identifying their dead from the Nazi holocaust... More than
2.5
million dead have been do***ented... It will be impossible to reach the
six
million figure... But, I hope we can get to four million." - The Sun,
Colorado Springs, Colorado, Jan. 30, 1973
The complete computerization of Yad Vashem's do***entation system,
including the millions of names of Jewish victims in the Hall of Names.
This
will make the retrieval system among the most advanced and accessible to
the
public worldwide. The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names, containing
3 million names of Holocaust victims went online in November 2004.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_yad/index_about_yad.html
The 6 million number came from a CIA asset.
From the CIA web site:
https://www.odci.gov/csi/bulletin/csi12.html
The page has been removed, but can be found archived here:
http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps19742/www.cia.gov/csi/bulletin/csi12.html#toc8
"These do***ents trace the activities of a notorious intelligence peddler
and fabricator"
Wilhelm Hoettl: International Man of Mystery
An Adroit Op****tunist
In September 1945, US Army officials concluded that Hoettl had been "of
great assistance to Allied counterintelligence ...... The Army noted,
however, that Hoettl is "a skilled op****tunist and a firm believer in his
own indispensability."16 After interrogating him at the Third US Army
Interrogation Center, the Army transferred him to Nuremberg as a witness
for
the International Military Tribunal.
In his most memorable testimony, Hoettl recounted a meeting at his home in
Budapest in August 1944 with Adolf Eichmann, the "Architect of the Final
Solution." ...... When asked by Hoettl how many Jews had perished,
Eichmann
put the number at six million, including four million in German
concentration camps.19
After he was freed in 1947, Hoettl returned to Austria, where he remained
active in intelligence circles into the 1950s. The CIA was especially
distrustful of the former SS officer. One Agency officer who had
interrogated Hoettl characterized him as a "born intriguer and a
dyed-in-the-wool Austrian Nazi" who had "delivered a sufficient number of
Nazi war criminals to the gallows, unbeknownst to his former associates,
to
afford us a strong hold over him."20 Notwithstanding any such "hold," the
Agency refused to have anything to do with Hoettl, although it spent
considerable time and resources tracking his activities and contacts.21
No stranger to American, British, and Russian intelligence, Hoettl was
indeed a marked man for the first decade after World War II. Born in
Vienna
in 1915, he received a doctorate in history from the University of Vienna
in
1938. He joined the Nazi party in the late 1930s, was commissioned as an
SS
Hauptsturmf? or captain, and subsequently became chief of the Foreign
Political Section of the (SD), the Nazi security service. Throughout the
war, Hoettl was involved in numerous activities against the Allies and
intrigues within the Third Reich. By 1944 the British and Americans had
ac***ulated a considerable amount of biographical information on Hoettl
and
even knew his private phone number in Berlin.
As the war drew to a close in 1945, American intelligence in particular
became even more familiar with Wilhelm Hoettl. An intense relation****p
developed, one that was marked by mutual suspicion and by bulging files of
information on this wily Austrian.
Members of the Interagency Working Group, in an evaluation of the CIA's
do***ents on Hoettl, offered this commentary:
The voluminous materials in Wilhelm Hoettl's personality file provide a
fascinating insight into the intrigue and drama of the era from late in
World War II to the Cold War. These do***ents trace the activities of a
notorious intelligence peddler and fabricator, who successfully convinced
one intelligence service after another of his value, and then proceeded to
lose such sup****t. If reviewed cautiously, with an eye for accuracy, this
file can be a treasure trove of intelligence information from an
individual
who navigated his way through the Nazi, US, West German, Russian, and
numerous other intelligence services. The file also illustrates the
difficult situation in which US post-war intelligence agents found
themselves?desperate for knowledge on Soviet activities, they saw no
choice
other than accepting intelligence from former Nazis with offensive pasts
and
questionable reliability.24
Writing in 1953, Hoettl exclaimed: "the German Secret Service is broken
and
scattered both to East and West. Some serve the Americans and some the
Russians. Others lie low and watch which way the wind blows. Some play
with
fire on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and some in South America and the
Middle East have taken with them the unrest that surrounded them here."25
Where did Hoettl fit in that picture? The CIA's "name file" provides leads
about his wartime and postwar intelligence roles, but Hoettl's true
allegiance remains a mystery even after his death.
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