THE MURDERERS AMONG US: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs. Edited And With An Introductory Profile By Joseph Wechsberg

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grey black & orange 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (NAP). possible book club edition, as there are numbers [70149] on the rear cover at bottom near spine. 340p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. appendix. autobiography. memoirs. world war ii. nazi germany. third reich. ~ 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 pursues 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 chamber. 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 has brought him much sorrow and danger, and who is everything but the "obsessive avenger" or "ruthless hunter" he has often been called. He has 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 his sixteen~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. He recounts 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 his book is much more than an account of fascinating searches and captures. The address Wiesenthal, Vienna has become a symbol of hope for a haunted generation. People from all over the world contact him for help in finding a relative or retrieving property stolen by the Nazis, or simply because of an intense need to share a continuing nightmare with someone who will understand without condescension. In writing about these people and his efforts to help them, Wiesenthal not only reveals the heartbreaking story of the past but the apathy of a present that prefers not to remember, not to help. N° de ref. del artículo 3302201

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Título: THE MURDERERS AMONG US: The Simon Wiesenthal...
Editorial: NY etc~. 1967. McGraw Hill Book Co.
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Edición: 1ª Edición