Karl Lewis Abrahams
| Karl Lewis Abrahams | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 7, 1904 |
| Other names | Blitz |
| 💼 Occupation | Nazi Hunter |
| Known for | Led the capture of Rudolf Höss |
Karl Lewis Abrahams was born in Liverpool in 1904. He joined the Intelligence Corps of the British Army in 1942, and spent the war conducting port security duties in the UK. In 1945, he joined a War Crimes Investigation Unit in Germany and in March 1946, he led the team that identified and arrested Rudolf Höss, the former Auschwitz commander, responsible for the death of at least 2,500,000 prisoners, mostly Jews.[1][2]
It was in letters that Abrahams wrote to his wife Betty during the period of time when he was stationed in post war Germany that revealed the extent of his involvement with Höss's capture. Those correspondences have since been donated to the holocaust museum Yad Vashem in Israel. It was 11 days after the capture of Höss, that Abrahams revealed in a letter to his wife the anti-climatic feeling he felt after the capture. In the letter, he described the great satisfaction he felt in capturing "The greatest swine that ever was". He added "a great satisfaction to have got him at last". In describing the interrogation of Höss "His interrogation was an experience I shall never forget. We were at it for about three days and two nights on the trot. No sleep - the atmosphere was weird and unreal as we heard him confessing that he had personally supervised the gassing and burning of over two and a half million human beings - mostly our fellow Jews."[3]
Abrahams, who was a modest, unassuming, G-d fearing man, wanted no fame or notoriety for himself [2], yet it was his ingenuity, courage and intuition that led him to spear-head the capture of, "the most diabolical criminal in all human history".
References[edit]
- ↑ "Commandant of Auschwitz : The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess", PDF-version as a comment of the PUBLISHER, not by himself, at PDF-page 23, actual page 16. Free download from www.bookyards.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lewis, Rhona (September 18, 2014). "Who Captured Rudolf Hoess?". Inyan.
- ↑ Jackman, Josh (March 10, 2016). "The man who caught the devil of Auschwitz". www.thejc.com. Retrieved 2020-11-29. Unknown parameter
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