The Nazi Hunters (58 page)

Mounting a public relations
and my report on villages, along with larger context: “Waldheim on the ‘A’ List,”
Newsweek,
April 21, 1986; my file to
Newsweek
on April 11, 1986; and Robert Edwin Herzstein,
Waldheim: The Missing Years
, 128–29.

At a rally:
“Waldheim Under Siege,”
Newsweek,
June 9, 1986; and my longer file to
Newsweek
.

“the absurdity”:
“Waldheim Under Siege,”
Newsweek,
June 9, 1986.

“
slander campaign
” and “
Even if
”
:
“Waldheim: Home Free?,”
Newsweek
, June 16, 1986.

“reveal him to”:
Office of Special Investigations,
In the Matter of Kurt Waldheim
, April 9, 1987, 200–201.

“a man who”
and
“Given what”:
Herzstein, 23, 254.

“In a perfect world”:
“Waldheim Under Siege,”
Newsweek,
June 9, 1986.

Beate Klarsfeld showed up:
Ibid.; and James M. Markham, “In Austrian Campaign, Even Bitterness Is Muted,”
New York Times,
June 6, 1986.

“I came here”:
Beate Klarsfeld interview with the author. Account of her exchange with Mayor Busek at Waldheim rally: My file to
Newsweek
, May 30, 1986.

“It should be”
and
“haunt and follow”
and
“intemperately”:
Andrew Nagorski, “Clumsy Acts, Bad Blood,”
Newsweek,
May 12, 1986; and Rosenbaum with Hoffer, 142.

“Many Jewish leaders”:
Edgar M. Bronfman,
The Making of a Jew,
115.

“We had created”:
Andrew Nagorski, “Clumsy Acts, Bad Blood,”
Newsweek,
May 12, 1986.

“very apt”
and other quotes from Austrian Jews about the WJC’s actions: My file to
Newsweek,
June 5, 1986.

“I’m one of those”:
Andrew Nagorski, “Clumsy Acts, Bad Blood,”
Newsweek,
May 12, 1986.

“I hate to,” “What’s
wrong,” and
“in bed with”:
Rosenbaum with Hoffer, 165.

“There can be”:
Ibid., 300–301.

“each had a secret”:
Ibid., 461.

“If one can be”:
Ibid., 463.

“he had failed”:
Ibid., 461.

“played loosely”
and
“Those of us”:
Ibid., 304.

“pathetically ineffective”:
Ibid., 472.

“But who was daring”:
Ibid., 304.

“unprosecuted, unpursued”:
Eli Rosenbaum interview with the author.

“He started out”:
Martin Mendelsohn interview with the author.

“I think Eli”:
Former OSI official who did not want his name used in any discussion of Rosenbaum.

“think they can”:
Andrew Nagorski, “Wiesenthal: A Summing Up,”
Newsweek International,
April 27, 1998.

“the fact that”:
Wiesenthal, 321.

“How can you”
and other quotes from Hier: Rabbi Marvin Hier interview with the author.

“TELL WIESENTHAL”:
Rosenbaum with Hoffer, 149.

He frequently asserted:
Simon Wiesenthal interview with the author, reported in my file to
Newsweek
, May 21, 1986.

“He does not wish”
and
He speculated:
Wiesenthal, 301.

“Jewish fascist”
and
“mafioso”:
Herzstein, 250.

“a reactionary”
and
“telling the world”:
Joshua Muravchik, “The Jew Who Turned the Left Against Israel,”
The Tablet,
July 29, 2014.

Later, he would:
Segev, 292–93.

“on French television”:
Wiesenthal, 320.

“After carefully studying”:
Herzstein, 229.

“very credible job”
and
“I don’t see”:
Peter Black interview with the author.

“At this way station”:
William Goldman,
Marathon Man,
262.

The Austrian-born doctor
and biographical details: Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet,
The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim
; Souad Mekhennet and Nicholas Kulish, “Uncovering Lost Path of the Most Wanted Nazi,”
New York Times,
February 4, 2009.

“The names of”:
Danny Baz,
The Secret Executioners: The Amazing True Story of the Death Squad That Tracked Down and Killed Nazi War Criminals,
xiii.

“We want”:
Ibid., 10.

“Bormann is dead”:
Ronald Gray,
I Killed Martin Bormann!,
5; serialization of book, as noted in Reuters dispatch, “Most Wanted Nazi Shot, Claims Ex-British Agent,” published in
The Montreal Gazette,
August 8, 1970.

“From the size”:
Gray,
I Killed Martin Bormann,
73.

“When I was”:
Ladislas Farago,
Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich,
428.

In Heim’s case:
Souad Mekhennet and Nicholas Kulish, “Uncovering Lost Path of the Most Wanted Nazi,”
New York Times
, February 5, 2009.

“absolute dominator”:
Kulish and Mekhennet, 173.

The purported remains
and DNA identification of Bormann: “New Genetic Tests Said to Confirm: It’s Martin Bormann,”
New York Times,
May 4, 1998.

According to an article
and Soobzokov’s biography: Blum, 47–48, 42–61; Richard Rashke,
Useful Enemies: John Demjanuk and America’s Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals,
48–50.

“We saw him”:
Blum, 57.

Although he served
and rest of postwar history of Soobzokov, including
“Subject has,” “an incorrigible fabricator,”
and
“unresolved doubts”:
Richard Breitman, “Tscherim Soobzokov,” American University (
https://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/breitman.pdf
).

He even pursued:
Blum, 258–63.

The FBI later:
Ibid., 263.

Eight years later
and rest of Bousquet’s story and killing, including his quotes: Richard J. Goslan, “Memory and Justice Abused: the 1949 Trial of René Bousquet,”
Studies in 20th Century Literature,
Vol. 23, 1-1-1999; Paul Webster, “The Collaborator’s Pitiless End,”
The Guardian
, June 8, 1993; and Douglas Johnson, “Obituary: René Bousquet,”
The Independent,
June 9, 1993.

“If I had killed”
and
“I thought that”:
Sorj Chalandon, “L’assassinat de René Bousquet: larmes du Crime,”
Libération,
April 4, 2000.

“Jews wanted”:
Serge Klarsfeld interview with the author.

In 1985
and search for Mengele: “Hunting the Angel of Death,”
Newsweek,
May 20, 1985; my longer file to
Newsweek
, April 16, 1985; and subsequent files sent through June 1985, along with my reporters’ notebooks from that period (personal files).

Mengele had drowned:
“Reaching a Verdict on the Mengele Case,”
Newsweek,
July 1, 1985; “Who Helped Mengele,”
Newsweek,
June 24, 1985; and my files to
Newsweek.

“experiments on”:
Gerald L. Posner and John Ware,
Mengele: The Complete Story,
76.

According to Robert Kempner:
Robert Kempner interview with the author.

The prisoner, who was:
Posner and Ware, 63.

“Mengele fled”:
Office of Special Investigations,
In the Matter of Josef Mengele,
October 1992, 193.

“Of all the evil,” “To make,”
and
“that might endanger”:
Harel, 210–11.

“None of us,” “Try to catch,”
and
“He is lying”:
Aharoni and Dietl, 149–50.

“As you can see”:
Posner and Ware, 163.

“We did not know”:
Aharoni and Dietl, 151.

“We gave little”:
Rafi Eitan interview with the author.

“His house was”:
“Mengele: The Search Ends,”
Newsweek,
July 1, 1985.

“I have remained silent”:
“Who Helped Mengele?,”
Newsweek
, June 24, 1985.

“I do not have”
and failures of the West German investigation: Ibid., “Reaching a Verdict in the Mengele Case,”
Newsweek,
July 1, 1985.

“That Auschwitz’s”:
Office of Special Investigations,
In the Matter of Josef Mengele,
October 1992, 196–97.

“Survival is”:
Wiesenthal, 351.

Priebke’s claim to
and rest of Priebke’s story in Italy, Argentina, and then extradition:
Alison Smale, “Erich Priebke, Nazi Who Carried Out Massacre of 335 Italians, Dies at 100,”
New York Times
, October 11, 2013; “Erich Priebke: ‘Just Following Orders,’ ”
The Economist
, October 26, 2013; “Erich Priebke,”
jewishvirtuallibrary.org
.

“Mr. Priebke”
and rest of Donaldson-Priebke exchange: YouTube video.

Born in 1934
and Donaldson background and quotes: Sam Donaldson interview with the author.

By the time
and role of Harry Phillips: Harry Phillips interview with the author; and Robert Lissit, “Out of Sight,”
American Journalism Review,
December 1994.

The Catholic Church
and funeral: Elisabetta Povoledo, “Funeral for Ex-Nazi in Italy Is Halted as Protesters Clash,”
New York Times,
October 16, 2013.

Born in
and Demjanuk’s early biographical details: Rashke, x–xiii, 548–49; Robert D. McFadden, “John Demjanuk, 91, Dogged by Charges of Atrocities as Nazi Camp Guard, Dies,”
New York Times
, March 17, 2012.

“traitors who”:
Andrew Nagorski,
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
, 70.

But in 1975
and preliminary investigation in the United States and Israel, and
“Iwan, Iwan”:
Rashke, 108–16.

The Justice Department’s, “There was no doubt,”
and
“You son of a bitch”:
Ryan, 106–7.

But not everyone
and Parker memo: Rashke, 149–54.

On January 27, 1986:
Ibid., 313.

“historic justice”:
Ibid., 348.

“I told him”:
Avraham Shalom interview with the author.

In emotional testimony
and reaction of the gallery: Rashke, 361–69.

CBS’s
60 Minutes:
Ibid., 466–68.

“We got”:
Eli Rosenbaum interview with the author.

Among the findings:
Rashke, 502.

Demjanuk had been pleading
and claims of illness: Ibid., 513–15.

“as a scapegoat”:
Robert D. McFadden, “John Demjanuk, 91, Dogged by Charges of Atrocities as Nazi Camp Guard, Dies,”
New York Times,
March 17, 2012.

“this American Dreyfus”:
Patrick J. Buchanan, “The True Haters,”
http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-the-true-haters-1495
, April 14, 2009.

According to:
The Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes, Information Sheet, December 2012. The statistics span the period that includes the unification of Germany, but they reflect the records of the West German judiciary.

In September 2013
and
“We take the view”:
Melissa Eddy, “Germany Sends 30 Death Camp Cases to Local Prosecutors,
New York Times,
September 3, 2013.

As of early 2015:
Statistics provided by Thomas Will, deputy director, the Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes.

“I ask for”:
“Auschwitz Trial: Oskar Groening Recalls ‘Queue of Trains,’ ” BBC News, April 22, 2015.

On July 15, 2015:
Alison Smale, “Oskar Gröning, Ex-SS Soldier at Auschwitz, Gets Four-Year Sentence,”
New York Times,
July 15, 2015.

“My personal opinion”:
David Crossland, “Late Push on War Crimes: Prosecutors to Probe 50 Auschwitz Guards,”
Spiegel Online International
, April 8, 2013.

“each one”:
Greene, 44.

“whoever operated”:
Wittmann, 256.

“This often happens”:
Piotr Cywiński interview with the author.

“The Auschwitz Files”:
Der Spiegel,
August 25, 2014; the English version was posted on
Spiegel Online International
on August 28, 2014.