ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1993
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

William B. Eerdmans Publishing 1993 463 strane : ilustrovano

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Traces the life of a concentration camp survivor who tracked down Nazi war criminals after the war and brought them to justice

Levy, an American who founded and edits the Prague Post , has known famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal since 1974. This moving account of his life and work is filled with Wiesenthal`s outspoken comments and impromptu recollections. Levy`s reconstruction of how the relentlessly determined survivor of Hitler`s concentration camps brought Adolf Eichmann and other major Nazi criminals to justice packs in as much suspense and high drama as a thriller. Born in 1908 in Galicia (a region of the former Austria-Hungary), Wiesenthal tried to commit suicide after the Gestapo arrested him. His wife, Cyla Muller, also was sent to a concentration camp; he assumed she was dead until their postwar reunion in Poland. Levy offers a controversial analysis of Wiesenthal`s role in the debate surrounding ex-U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who became Austria`s president. Wiesenthal called Waldheim a liar who concealed his knowledge of atrocities but concluded he was never a Nazi or war criminal. Levy praises Wiesenthal`s `principled stand,` which possibly cost him a Nobel Peace Prize.