The Case Against Adolf Eichmann by Henry A. Zeiger
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The fascinating little tome came out during or shortly before trhe Eichmann trial in Israel. His capture is mere prologue to a mass of depositions, memoranda, and communications from the Nazi death camps. Among the depositions is a history that testified at Nuremburg and apparently first heard the 6 millions figure from Eichmann himself. Eichmann comes across as a craven bureaucrat of murder so taken with his deadly paper pushing he didn't stop feeding the crematoria and counting its receipts after he himself felt the war was lost (when Roumania left the Axis) and even when Himmler in a pique of feigned restraing ordered the killing stopped. Among the memoranda, regular Wermacht officers send unanswered queries up the chain of command asking if anyone knows these insanse SS are killing Jews (wasting a labor resource) and otherwise directing away military resources better used against the Russians. It ends up in a memo chains passed around Nazi officials that no one can supply a racial theorists with 150 non-Aryan skulls until Eichmann hears of the need and swiftly complies...
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