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“My files”:
Ibid., 210–11.

“That was the file”:
Ibid., 211.

“We agreed to”:
Ibid., 146.

Wiesenthal claimed
and
“high official”:
Wechsberg
,
ed., 100.

According to both
and quote from landlady: Ibid., 100–101; and Wiesenthal, 67–69.

This was the beginning
and questioning of Veronika Liebl: Wechsberg, ed., 101–2.

“Eichmann Wiesenthal”
and
“swamped”:
Wiesenthal, 69.

In some cases:
See Guy Walters,
Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Quest to Bring Them to Justice,
80.

“the greatest murderer”
and
“Friedman, you must”:
Friedman, 122.

“Do you have”:
Robert M. W. Kempner,
Ankläger Einer Epoche: Lebenserrinrungen,
445.

In 1947
, death appeal sequence, and
“This unspectacular”:
Wiesenthal, 70.

According to Friedman
and
“Arthur permitted”:
Friedman, 203. Eichmann’s postwar movements are recounted in Neal Bascomb’s
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi.

“The truth was”:
Friedman, 204.

“keep reminding”
and
“Think of it”:
Ibid., 215.

For Wiesenthal
and quotes from Wiesenthal about the Austrian baron and his meeting with him: Wiesenthal, 76.

The baron’s name:
Segev, 102.

“Imagine whom”
and
“How do you”:
Wechsberg, ed., 123.

“As an adversary”
and report to WJC and Israeli consulate: Wiesenthal, 76–77; and Weschsberg, ed., 124.

“American Jews”
and
“I honestly”:
Wiesenthal, 77.

“post-war phase”:
Pick, 133.

He, too, packed up:
Segev, 117.

By the middle:
Heberer and Matthäus, eds., 191.

“I think we”:
Deborah Lipstadt,
The Eichmann Trial,
27.

“At a time”:
Irmtrud Wojak,
Fritz Bauer 1903–1968: Eine Biographie,
15.

“contributed significantly”:
Ibid., 13.

“Jewish pig”
and
“Have you”:
Ronen Steinke,
Fritz Bauer: Oder Auschwitz vor Gericht
, 26, 29.

Death by Installments: Original German title is
Fritz Bauer: Tod auf Raten
, CV Films, 2010.

“the historical figure”
and other quotes: Ilona Ziok interview with the author.

“Fritz Bauer’s family”
and other quotes from exhibition: Texts courtesy of exhibition curator Monika Boll. Many of the documents and write-ups are also included in the exhibition’s catalogue: Fritz Backhaus, Monika Boll, Raphael Gross.
Fritz Bauer. Der
Staatsanwalt. NS-Verbrechen vor Gericht.

“there were many”
and rest of Bauer’s remarks to students: Wojak, 62.

“the rowdy crowds”:
Ibid., 97–98.

“A Jewish District Judge”
and rest of
NS-Kurier
case: Steinke, 83–85.

“We unconditionally”
and
“incredible belief”:
Ibid., 97–98.

“The Danes”:
Fritz Bauer exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Frankfurt.

“It is playing”:
Irmtrud Wojak interview with the author.

In 1943
and other details: Fritz Bauer exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Frankfurt; and Steinke, 106–8.

“smart like”:
Steinke, 109.

“Germany is”:
Wojak, 183.

He also published:
Ibid., 179.

From Denmark, he wrote
and
“they don’t want

:
Ibid., 221.

He had been wounded
and Remer-Goebbels encounter: William Shirer,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany,
1061–63.

“39 years old”
and “recipients of” and “These conspirators” and number of journalists at the trial: Alaric Searle,
Wehrmacht Generals, West German Society, and the Debate on Rearmament, 1949–1959,
238–39.

“Didn’t everyone”
and
“An unjust state”:
Wojak, 273–74.

“The anti-Nazi sentiment”:
Letter to the Austrian communist Karl B. Frank, March 2, 1945, quoted in Fritz Bauer exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Frankfurt.

“It’s the task”:
Steinke, 144.

“saw it as their task”
and
“deeply moved”:
Wojak, 275.

The court found
and how Remer never served his sentence: Searle, 244.

“worked for”:
Frei, 268.

A poll taken:
Steinke, 137.

Chapter Eight: “Un Momentito, Señor”

“It was well known”:
Jack Higgins,
The Bormann Testament,
49–50.

“I said I’ll buy”:
Rafi Eitan interview with the author.

Israel’s population
:
“Vital Statistics: Population in Israel,”
www.Jewishvirtuallibrary.org
.

“I was never”:
Avraham Shalom interview with the author.

According to Isser Harel
and account of Shinar-Bauer meeting, with quotes: Isser Harel,
The House on Garibaldi Street,
4.

When Walter Eytan
and
“I didn’t know”
and rest of Harel’s initial actions, and
“That night I resolved”:
Ibid., 2–3.

“What Dr. Shinar”
and details and quotes from Darom-Bauer meeting, including Harel’s assessment of Bauer: Ibid., 4–9.

In January 1958
and “the wretched little house” and rest of Goren’s mission, including Harel’s reaction to his report: Ibid., 10–12.

That somebody was
and Hofstaetter’s journey to Argentina, including encounter with Hermann, his wife, and daughter: Ibid., 12–22.

Lothar and Sylvia Hermann:
Bascomb, 111–12.

“These findings”:
Harel,
The House on Garibaldi Street,
27.

In August 1959, Tuvia Friedman
and his actions to publicize the Eichmann-in-Kuwait claim: Friedman, 246–49.

In December 1959:
Harel,
The House on Garibaldi Street,
32–35.

“This is simply”
and rest of account of Bauer’s meeting in Jerusalem: Zvi Aharoni and Wilhelm Dietl,
Operation Eichmann: The Truth About the Pursuit, Capture and Trial,
85.

“The sad truth”:
Ibid., 84.

Harel informed Ben-Gurion
and
“would be an achievement”:
Harel,
The House on Garibaldi Street,
36–37.

“one of the best” and Aharoni background:
Ibid., 35; and Bascomb, 130–31.

“seething with”:
Harel,
The House on Garibaldi Street,
36.

On March 1, 1960:
Aharoni and Dietl, 88.

Accompanied by
and rest of Aharoni search for Eichmann, including visits to first and second addresses, including quotes: Ibid., 90–100. In his account, Harel offers some minor variations on this story, claiming that the Israelis used an actual hotel bellboy for the reconnaissance operation.

Staking out
and subsequent actions along with quotes and efforts to photograph Eichmann: Ibid., 102–25.

“People don’t lie”
and
“The Eichmanns’ family”
and rest of story about death notice of Eichmann’s stepmother and then father: Wiesenthal, 77.

Wiesenthal reported
and photos at funeral: Ibid., 77–78.

“never happened”
and
“got excited”:
Isser Harel, “Simon Wiesenthal and the Capture of Eichmann” (unpublished manuscript, courtesy of Eli Rosenbaum), 230.

But Aharoni
and
“an important piece”:
Aharoni and Dietl, 86–87.

Harel took charge:
Harel,
The House on Garibaldi Street,
85–87.

While Harel handled
and Eitan’s arrangements for sea transport: Rafi Eitan interview with the author.

He was no longer:
Aharoni and Dietl, 126.

One of the first to follow
and Shalom’s mishaps on his journey: Avraham Shalom interview with the author.

“Never before”:
Peter Z. Malkin and Harry Stein,
Eichmann in My Hands
, 127.

“From the very beginning”
and rest of Eitan’s account: Rafi Eitan interview with the author.

On the evening of May 10,
safe houses, and Harel’s final briefing to the team: Harel,
The House on Garibaldi Street,
150–52.

“I’m warning you”
and
“The gloves”:
Malkin and Stein, 142, 183.

They were parked
and rest of kidnapping operation: Harel,
The House on Garibaldi Street,
162–69; author interviews with Rafi Eitan and Avraham Shalom; Aharoni and Dietl, 137–44 (Aharoni quotes).

“Un momentito, señor” and rest of Malkin’s seizing of Eichmann:
Malkin and Stein, 186–87.

The special El Al flight:
Bascomb, 262–63.

“You must believe me”
and
“infallible”:
Malkin and Stein, 204–5.

“There was”:
Ibid., 216.

“He behaved like”
and Eichmann’s fears: Harel,
The House on Garibaldi Street,
182.

He tried to convince:
Aharoni and Dietl, 152–53.

But as Nicolas Eichmann:
Harel,
The House on Garibaldi Street,
179–80.

Shalom had repeatedly driven:
Avraham Shalom interview with the author.

On May 20,
Shalom inspection, and informing the crew: Harel,
The House on Garibaldi Street,
249, 237.

Back at the safe house
and trip to plane and getting Eichmann on board: Ibid., 252–56.

When the plane left:
Bascomb, 290.


Which one of you”
and
“The story”:
Friedman, 266.

“HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS”:
Segev, 148.

“Eichmann’s seizure”:
Pick, 147.

“I was a dogged pursuer”:
Wiesenthal, 70.

“I could never”:
Paulinka and Gerard Kreisberg interview with the author.

“As soon as”:
Harel,
The House on Garibaldi Street
, 275.

“He can call”:
Steinke, 23.

“no part”
and
“could not”:
Harel, “Simon Wiesenthal and the Capture of Eichmann,” 3, 23.

“had not exerted”
and
“At first”:
Ibid., 3, 5.

“They were competing”:
Avraham Shalom interview with the author.

“When I actually saw”:
Harel,
The House on Garibaldi Street,
196–97.

Chapter Nine: “In Cold Blood”

“That many”:
Primo Levi,
The Drowned and the Saved
, 73.

“Our security services”
and other quotes from transcript of cabinet meeting: “Ben-Gurion’s Bombshell: We’ve Caught Eichmann,”
The Times of Israel
, April 8, 2013.

“Israel itself”:
Gideon Hausner,
Justice in Jerusalem,
288.

“I have to inform”:
Bascomb, 298–99.

Its foreign minister
and
“Jewish volunteers”
and U.N. resolution: Ibid., 304–5.

An editorial:
Adam Bernstein, “Israeli Judge Moshe Landau, Who Presided over Nazi Officer’s Trial, Dies at 99,”
Washington Post
, May 3, 2011; and Lipstadt, 34.

Philosopher Isaiah Berlin wrote:
Ofer Aderet, “The Jewish Philosopher Who Tried to Convince Israel Not to Try Eichmann,”
Haaretz
, December 28, 2013.

“act of lawlessness”:
Lipstadt, 31.

The American Jewish Committee
and
“unspeakable crimes”:
Ibid., 34.

“With me”:
Hausner, 323.

“In Israel”
and all subsequent Bach quotes: Gabriel Bach interview with the author.

Some Holocaust survivors:
“Snatching Eichmann,”
Zman
, May 2012, 130.

Eichmann occupied a cell:
Jochen von Lang and Claus Sybill, eds.,
Eichmann Interrogated: Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli Police,
xix.

But the same rule
and
275 hours
and subsequent mention of
3,564 pages:
Ibid., xvii.

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