Eberhard Fritsch Explained

Eberhard Ludwig Cäsar Fritsch (born 21 November 1921 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; died 25 November 1974 in Salzburg, Austria) was the editor and publisher of the pro-Nazi monthly magazine in Argentina Der Weg (The Way) (founded 1947)^[1] which advocated a revival of Nazism in Germany after the Second World War.^[2] He was a confidant of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina before Eichmann's capture and transfer for trial to Israel.^[3] With Willem Sassen he taped Eichmann's reminiscences with a view to publishing his memoirs. The memoirs were never published but the tapes were later used at Eichmann's trial.^[4]

External links

• The Naumann Circle The Study of a Technique in Political Subersion

Notes and References

1. 'Sosnowski, Saúl (1999): Counting Nazis in Argentina. In: Jewish Quarterly 46 (1), p. 49.
2. Web site: The Long Road to Eichmann's Arrest: A Nazi War Criminal's Life in Argentina. 1 April 2011. Spiegel Online.
3. "The CIA knew where Eichmann was hiding" by Ben Macintyre,The Times, 6 October 2018, p. 31.
4. Book: Stangneth, Bettina. Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer. 30 October 2014. Random House. 9781473513488. Google Books.