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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Orr,
Tuesday, March 31, MM
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First Early Step To A Career In Blood:
Nazis Slug Eichmann As A Suspected Jew
By TOM A. Ct'LLEN Ito Eichmann, imploring, "Spare .become a Jewish "expert,"' he hard and must be watched." This
Newspaper Enterprise Assn. him! At least let my precious jumped at the chance. "1 mustlwas endorsed by his boss. Gen
Adolph Eichmann was two menjbaby " But her entreaty is cut confess that I did not greet thisleral Reinhardt Herdrich, other-
the tormentor and the torment- short by a machine-gun. . assignment with the apathy o an'wise known as "The Hangman."1
ed- It is only as he turns away ox being led to the stall," as Eichmann would have been
Eichmann. the man with an from the mass grave that Eich-,he outs it. Vwn mno irnnsiH tn loam that
admitted five million deaths
his conscience, was, himself, once
the victim of racial hatred. The
Gestapo executioner once was
on mann notices the bits of tissues
splattered on his leather coat.
My driver helped me to remove
Eichmann's career is s h o tlthrouchout his Nazi career he,
through with contradictions. himself, was suspected in some
He prostrated his soul lor his quarters of being partly Jewish.
beaten to within an inch of his we returned to Berlin
them," he recalled laler. "Then fuhrer, yet never once in the 14 Authority for
life because he was mistaken for
a Jew.
This phase of his story is set
Only 10 years separate the two
scenes.
this is Dr
years he served Hitler did he .loliann von l.eer, one of
ever meet him. Goebbels' stooges who is now sun-
Nor was he ever decorated fanning himself in Cairo, out of
Karl Adolf Eichmann was born distinguished services lo the, reach of the West German police.
"Manv ueoule." savs Von Leer.
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Lir it. j. .11 I :
sen. nc js uuu dim uniiiictii)a-
tive." .
(Next: The Modern Judas.)
JEWISH WOMEN and children are shown at the Infamous Auschwitz
mother holds out her baby to Eichmann, imploring Spars him.' "
in two cities: Salzburg. Austria, on March 19, 1906. in Soligen. Third Reich.
in 1931; and Minsk, Russia, 10, eldest of four brothers.
years later-'
First, look at the young Eich
mann. aged 25, and employed as
a salesman by the oil firm of
camp.
Vacuum AG. His job takes him Eichmann's father was a skilled
I He never rose above the oracle
His mother died when he was,0f SS lieutenant-colonel, though
four: and soon afterwards the younger men, less zealous, were
family moved to Linz. Austria, promoted over his head,
where Hitler spent his boyhood.; The truth is that Eichmann was
frequently to Salzburg. Eichmann
loves this beautiful city, home of
Mozart and sparkling wines.
As he emerges from a bier
strube one evening, the sallow
complexioncd youth with t h e
sharp features is followed by a
gang in brown shirts.
Now. at the entrance to an at
engineer and deeply religious. "1
tried lo bring him up well,"
pleaded the father, who broke
down and wept when he heard
after the war of his son's crimes.
"He told me he was a racial ex
pert not a murderer."
Adolf was delicate and from all
accounts miserable. A fall from
too gruesome for the top Nazis.
Even Rcichsfuhrer SS Heinrich
Himmler considered him to be a
bit beyond the human pale but
useful.
In his personal SS file appears
the notation; "Eichmann is too
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ley way, the leader catches up a horse damaged one of his legs,
with Eichmann. You re a tntny: wmcn Kepi mm out ol games.
Jew," he spits in Eichmann's
face. "What are you doing in an
Aryan bar?"
Eichmann. himself, had joined
the Austrian Nazi Party only a
few months previously, becoming
card-holder No. 899895.' -
But before he can explain, blow
Even today he walks with a lurch
Early photos show him with
the same wry smile, though the
eyes had not then acquired their
present hardness. His proudest
possession, as a boy, was a Ger
man soldier's cap. -
Eichmann attended a Linz tech-
after blow is being smashed into nical school, but failed his exams,
his face. Nazi boots thud into his,Then he studied briefly lo become
ribs. .
Eichmann blames the Jews,
not the Nazi Party. "Adolf was
beside himself with rage
half-brother. Dr. Robert Eich
mann. recalls. "He clenched his
fists and swore, 'The Jews are
responsible for this. If there were
a Protestant minister.
Meanwhile, the father's elec
trical business had failed and
his young Eichmann was forced to
make'his way in an inflation-ridden
Austria, easy prey to Hitler's
expansionist promises.
Eichmann appears to have sue-
no Jews, 1 would not be mistaken cumbed quickly for he was active
for one.' " iln 11,0 "legal Austrian Nazi Par-
It is a traumatic experience,
undoubtedly a turning-point in
Eichmann's life.
ty at 23.
By August, 1934, he was in Ber
lin and working for the Gestapo
Contrast this with a scene near Security Service. His first job
Minsk, in Nazi-occupied Russia, preparing a blacklist of Freema
in the winter of 1941. Eichmann,! sons. When he was encouraged to
10 years older and no longer;
carefree, wears the black uni
form of a Schutzstafflen (SS ma
jor with a long leather coat. On
his peaked cap is the silver
death's head insignia of the SS.
He stands at a mass grave
where the last of 5.000 Russian
Jews are being machine-gunned.
He has watched it all, seen
the long line of Jews undress in
the snow, then stand naked to
wait their turn. Some kiss their
family. Others pray alone.
The pit is already two-thirds
full. Here and there those who
have been shot lift an arm in
crazy fashion.
Dangling his feet in the pit. an
SS man calmly smokes a ciga
rette with tommy gun on his
knees.
A mother holds out her baby
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