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The Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs / This is a compelling story of the way one man in our callous times truly assumed the role of his brothers' keeper, in spite of obstructions from Nazi supporters, unsympathetic governments, time, and fading memories. The Murderers Among Us is an inspiring book -- the stirring life of a man who pursued justice in the heyday of expediency. Simon Wiesenthal was lying in a ward full of corpses when Allied troops reached Mauthausen Concentration Camp. His wife was lost in the vast confusion of postwar Europe, the rest of his family victims of the gas chambers. His own loss and the horrors he had witnessed made Wiesenthal vow to spend the rest of his life bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. This extraordinary book is Wiesenthal's own story and a profile of him by Joseph Wechsberg, a well-known writer for The New Yorker. The portrait that emerges is of a compassionate man whose single-minded purpose brought him much sorrow and danger, and who was everything but the "obsessive avenger" or "ruthless hunter" he was often called. He brought almost 1000 notorious Nazis to trial, while helping many accused criminals defend themselves by producing evidence that they committed their alleged crimes under duress. Wiesenthal is best known for his discovery of Adolf Eichmann's South American hideout. In these memoirs, Wiesenthal describes for the first time that 16-year search -- the tireless sifting through every clue, rumor, and scrap of information that finally led to the capture of the man responsible for the death of thousands, as well as the long search for the SS officer who arrested Anne Frank, and the consequent embarrassment of Austrian officials when the man was discovered on the Vienna police force. He tells too of the slow unraveling of the Martin Bormann mystery and the well-subsidized network of Nazi communications that still operates to protect these murderers. But this book is much more than an account of fascinating searches and captures. 346 pages, contents include: A Profile of SW; His Narrative; The Knife; The Secrets of ODESSA; Eichmann the elusive; Alex; The Train Was Leaving in Three Minutes; The man Who Collected Blue Eyes; Epilogue to Anne Frank's Diary; Beyond Reason; Business First; The Old Baron Couldn't Forget; A Bride for Dr Babor; Extermination of the Gypsies; Gallery of Tears; Two Candles; The Killers of Galicia; The Thirty-six Righteous; The Other Side of the Moon; One Cent per Body; School for Mass Murder; Where is Bormann?

GMD	Book
Corporate Author	Holocaust--Personalnarratives.
Classification	940.43 WEC
Publisher	New York, N.Y., McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967
Subject	Holocaust--Personal narratives.Nazi--War CriminalWorld War 1939-1945--Atrocities.War Criminals--Germany--Biography.Simon Wiesenthal 31st December 1908-20th September 2005Holocaust--War crimes--Trials
Description	340
ISBN	9780330300537
URL	https://www.amazon.com/Murderers-Among-Us-Wiesenthal-Memoirs/dp/B0006BQG60

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In a drab Vienna office, a very ordinary - looking man pours over the letters and documents strewn across his desk. His name is Simon Wiesenthal. He is balding, slightly paunchy, and usually dressed in a plain, gray business suit. Yet, this man is the most feared avenger in the world, and his inconspicuous office is the center of an incredible international tracking network responsible for the capture of nearly 1,000 notorious Nazi's! Adolf Eichmann, Franz Stangl, Commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka death camps, Murer, "the Butcher of Wilna," Silberbauer, the Gestapo agent who arrested Anne Frank — the list of his "clients" reads like a Who's Who of Hell...
THE MURDERERS AMONG US is the terrifying story of this man, and of how and why he earned the label, "The world's most relentless Nazi-Hunter!"
"Reads like a fascinating detective thriller.. .You just can't lay the book down."
-SATURDAY REVIEW

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