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Stan Lauryssens: The Eichmann Diaries
The Eichmann Diaries
© Stan Lauryssens
1961 Eichmann cover for Time magazine (not used)
You are, of course, familiar with Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann who escaped Europe and justice after World War II. It may be of interest to you that, after twenty-five years of meticulous investigation, I wrote an 80,000 word typescript detailing the full story—never told before—of the three Adolf Eichmann sets of diaries that exist: 1) Adolf Eichmann’s atrocious and gruesome original memoirs taperecorded and subsequently transcribed while he was in hiding in Argentina, 2) Eichmann’s Israeli diaries written during the 1961 Eichmann trial, and 3) his 1,300 page confession, handwritten in between the war criminal’s conviction and his execution.
Title: “The Eichmann Diaries”. In English. 16 page b/w picture section.
“The Eichmann Diaries” is much more than a biography. The book deals with Eichmann’s life in hiding in Argentina, including an almost day-by-day account of the recording, on tape, of the most horrible memoirs in living history, his betrayal and capture through a secret Mossad team, his subsequent police interrogation in Israel and, finally, the 1961 Eichmann trial followed by a detailed verbatim account never published before of Adolf Eichmann’s last days and execution.
In “The Eichmann Diaries” I have faithfully reproduced the most catching fragments of all three sets of diaries—also of those secret diary pages the Israeli Ministry of Justice did not release. (A copy was given to me in 1975 by Dr Servatius, Eichmann’s German lawyer.)
Eichmann in Israel, hours before he was hanged
The main character in “The Eichmann Diaries”, apart from Adolf Eichmann (and his family), is Dutch SS-officer Willem Sassen, himself a fugitive from justice. Between 1955 and 1960, Sassen taperecorded and transcribed Eichmann’s memoirs in Argentina and—as he was a secret Mossad informer himself—sold Eichmann to the Israeli Secret Service for $ 5,000 a month over a two-year period. I stayed at Sassen’s house in Argentina and listened to the 67 tapes on which Eichmann recorded his war memoirs and concentration camp recollections. Press reports over the years have stated that I am the only writer ever to have had access to the full set of Eichmann tapes. Other characters in “The Eichmann Diaries” are Eichmann’s sons Klaus and Dieter, Dr Robert Servatius (Eichmann’s lawyer), Mossad chief officer Isser Harel and Wilhelm Höttl who was Eichmann’s superior Gestapo officer in Vienna. I had interviews with all of the above. A rather unlikely character in “The Eichmann Diaries” is British film director Alfred Hitchcock.
“Stan Lauryssens writes so well that you can almost smell the dust blowing through the window.” The Bulletin
“A very attractive and elegant style.” Troy Southgate
What reviewers in Italy said about The Eichmann Diaries:
I was thoroughly impressed. Very well written, moving, thought- provoking and extremely well-researched. A truly fascinating read.
THE EICHMANN DIARIES
Non-fiction
80,000 words
16 page b/w picture section
Italian cover
Dutch cover
Polish cover
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