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Eichmann Confessions as an Ex-Nazi
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
journalist who tape-recorded in
Argentina the confessions of
Adolf Eichmann, Nazi expert
on Jewish affairs who directed
the mass-killing of 6,000,000
Jews in Europe—and sold these
confessions to Life magazine in
New York — is a Dutchman
turned Nazi. He is reported to
have been sentenced to death
for war crimes in Belgium, and
1944, Nazi-appointed editor of
an Amsterdam newspaper, de
Telegraf. After Holland was
liberated from the Nazi regime,
the district attorney of the
small Dutch town of s'Herto-
genbosch, in the province of
Brabant, obtained an -indict-
ment of Sassen, charging him
with war crimes for which, pre-
sumably, the sentence upon
, conviction might have been
Eichmann, Associate
Tape-Recorded Memories
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—Wilhelm Sassen, the Dutch
Nazi whom Adolf Eichmann entrusted with the tape-
recording of his confessions on the mass-murder of Jews
in Nazi-held countries—which were published in Life
magazine — was identified here also as a writer for the
Argentine German-language publication Der Weg, which
was suppressed in 1957 by the Argentine Government for
its Nazi policy. He published his articles in that news-
paper under the name Willem Sluyse.
In one of his articles—an "open letter" to Sir Anthony
Eden, former British Prime Ministe•—he identified himself
as "W. Sluyse, Section Leader of the Foreign Service of
the SS Division in The Netherlands." His true identity
was established here by Mark Turkow, executive director
of the Argentine branch of the World Jewish Congress,
following the disclosure yesterday by the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency in New York that Sassen was not a German.
but a native of The Netherlands who was an officer of
Hitler's Elite Guard, the SS, and who escaped fro
Holland to Argentina after being charged with war crim
Sassen was identified here today as Sluyse, one of
e
most active collaborators of Der Weg from 1953
til
the time when it was closed down by the Argentine a
or-
ities. His articles were strongly pro-Nazi and were ated
either from Buenos' Aires or from -Santa Rosa, in
mpa
province. In 1955, when the Argentine Nazi leader E
que
Oses died, he wrote in Der Weg a eulogy signing at
e
time the name W. Sassen.
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thorough documentation, to the
complete satisfaction of the -d-
itors of Life."
Life magazine refused to
reveal the price paid to Sassen
for the publication of the Eich-
mann memoirs. Reports both in
Germany and in Israel have in-
timated that 'the costs of Eich-
mann's defense are being met
from the proceeds of Eichmann
articles sold to a large Ameri-
can magazine.
In the Life series, Sassen
quotes. Eichmann as saying,
among other things: "If we had
killed all the 10,000,000 Jews
that Heinrich Himmler's statis-
ticians originally listed, in 1933,
I would say: 'Good, we have de-
stroyed an enemy.' "
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COLOGNE—Protectively, Dr.
Robert Servatius, the Cologne
attorney scheduled to serve as
defense counsel for the trial of
Nazi mass murder specialist
Adolf Eichmann, said Tuesday
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is now under indictment for death. However, the man dis-
war crimes in Holland, the Jew- appeared and the warrant was
ish 'Telegraphic Agency estab-• never served.
lished.
According to another new-
Life magazine identified the paper, De Standard, of Brus-
man from whom it bought the sels, Belgium, Sassen was
Eichmann tape-recorded state- tried in absentia by a military
ments as a German journalist, court in Belgium. In that trial
Wilhelm Sassen.
he was convicted of war
The Jewish Telegraphic
crimes and sentenced to
Agency established, through
death.
Dutch newspapers, that Wil-
Het Vrije Volk reports that,
helm Sassen is Willem S. in a telephone conversation
Sassen, a Dutch journalist with Sassen, who lives in Bue-
who collaborated during the nos Aires, the man admitted
war with the Nazis 'occupying that he was the former Willem
Holland. The information was S. Sassen, that he was an of-
revealed in articles in the Al- ficer in the SS, Hitler's Elite
gemeen Handlesblad, of Am- Guard, and that he had escaped
sterdam; Het Vrije Volk, of from Holland to Argentina in
Amsterdam; and the Rotter- 1947.
damsche Courant, of Rotter-
The Dutch press states that
dam.
Sassen renounced his Dutch
He also said that if the mem- citizenship and became a Ger-
oirs of the Nazi mass executioner man national during the Nazi
in Life magazine were true, any occupation of Holland. The Rot-
defense "would be a waste of terdam Courant declares that
time."
Sassen "could have obtained
He said that if the memoirs German nationality only by be-
were genuine, he would withdraw coming a member of the SS."
as defense attorney. He said his It is pointed out that Eic
hair "stood on end" when he man's own rank in the N
read a section in the articles regime was that of a colone
citing Eichmann as sayin
SS.
no regrets for
Rotterdam Courant
execution
. , ri 0 European dares. `We cannot congra
Jews a
even if 10,000,000 late Life or employing a co
had b
would simply laborator
ith such a back-
have. a
• this as destruction ground.
have said before
of tli
emy.
that the
blication of Eich-
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attorney said he planne
mania's
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to
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b-judice, is objec-
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this so-called German
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told the JTA: "Life, which had
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