Quote a passage & respond to it. How did it make you feel?
Why did you choose this to read?
In the book The Nazi Hunters it explains how a team of spies and survivors captured the worlds most notorious Nazi, Adolf Eichmann. so far in the book, they've had many clues and were about to catch him many times. However each time he always got away and the trail had gotten cold every time. Currently they are very close to capturing him again, but like the other times I think Eichmann will escape. I can predict this because in the book he's described as clever, so I think he would be able to tell what is happening around him. The team had been investigating Eichmann, and even pretended one of their men was a person looking to buy a house for his family. The man had a brief case, which held a camera inside of it. As to how they were able to achieve pictures of Eichmann close up. This to me would be very fishy, if a man was to be holding a brief case in front of him instead of holding it in his hand next to it. Which is why I think Eichmann will realize he's being investigated, and flee with his family once again.
There's a quote that isn't necessarily inside the book, but its on one of the beginning pages. The quote is said by Adolf Eichmann, and it states, "I sat at my desk and did my work. It was my job to catch our Jewish enemies like fish in a net and transport them to their final destination." Many thoughts run through my head every time I skim past this quote. How Hitler was able to convince so many people that the Jews were bad and how Eichmann didn't even question it. That Eichmann knew he was sending millions do their deaths and didn't care. It makes me feel sick thinking about it. A man that killed so many, and on a regular basis, had acted normal. The quote also makes me think of how Germany must have been so crushed after WWI, and how the Germans were able to put their trust into a horrible man so easily.
The main reason I chose to read this book was that I'm really intrigued with the Holocaust. I like to read survivor stories, like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Boy on the Wooden Box or Night and try to understand what it was they were all going through. It makes me feel that I need to understand how these people lived their lives, so I can see the good side and the bad side of the world. Another reason I chose to read this book is because I've heard of Adolf Eichmann, and the horrors that he had done during the Holocaust. Since I heard he went into hiding, I assumed he was never found. However when I saw the book standing on Mrs. Larson's desk, and read the cover, saying how he was captured, I was immediately intrigued and went to go check it out. Currently I'm really liking this book, and every time I read more, it makes me feel like I'm in an episode of Criminal Minds.
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