How Evil Escaped ; the Shameful Story of How Post-War Dithering Let Nazi Murderer Adolf
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AS THE Nazi bureaucrat responsible for sending at least two million Jews to their deaths, Adolf Eichmann was one of the most evil men in history.
As such, one might have expected that the search for Eichmann after the end of WWII would have been a massive and well-organised manhunt. However, recently released documents have revealed that efforts by the British to find one of the chief architects of the Holocaust were called off in early 1947 less than two years after the end of the war. It later turned out that Eichmann had been living under the noses of his hunters, in Germany, before he later smuggled himself out to South America.See the full content of this document
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How Evil Escaped ; the Shameful Story of How Post-War Dithering Let Nazi Murderer Adolf
The now declassified files show that in February 1947, a British Army officer called Major Cooper wrote to a senior officer, informing him that 'an exhaustive search had been carried out [for Eichmann] but the only indication of his fate was he may have committed suicide'.
As a result, the case was closed, and Eichmann remained free until he ...See the full content of this document
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