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Willem Sassen

Willem Sassen was a Dutch writer living in Argentina after the war. He worked with Eichmann on a memoir-like set of interviews in the late 1950s.

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Willem Sassen was a Dutch writer living in Argentina after the war. He worked with Eichmann on a memoir-like set of interviews in the late 1950s.

Yad Vashem holds the four interview files in the Jacob Robinson Collection O.65. Its file description gives Sassen and Eichmann.

In this interview

Eichmann addresses 'Comrade Sassen' on scans 00088 and 00096 of file 86. Those named addresses connect Sassen to the exchange. They do not show that every Q turn belongs to him.

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The reviewed transcript uses Q for an unnamed questioner. This page does not replace Q with Sassen or give him a turn unless the sheet gives him.

Exact scans

  • File 86, scan 00088

    Eichmann says 'Comrade Sassen' and refers to a position Sassen took in a prior exchange.

  • File 86, scan 00096

    Eichmann again addresses Sassen by name while describing his duties in Vienna and Prague.