Issue 139, May 2022, of the Athens Review of Books has been released, which includes a special tribute to Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner entitled "The Alois Brunner Case and the Divided Consciousness of the Holocaust in Greece" by historian Tobias Blümel.
As it is characteristically mentioned in the introduction of the article: "Alois Brunner was one of Adolf Eichmann's closest collaborators and responsible for the deportation of the Jews of Vienna, Berlin, Thessaloniki and Drancy, and later Czechoslovakia. According to conservative estimates it was responsible for the deaths of at least 128.500 people. After the war, he fled to Syria and was never arrested to face trial. From 1985 onwards, the Central Jewish Council of Greece (KISE) submitted extradition requests to successive Greek governments and attempted to proceed with proceedings against Brunner in absentia. KISE encountered a wall of political reluctance across the party spectrum.
...This article is a representation of modern Greek history based on primary sources, focusing on the debate about the refusal to prosecute Alois Brunner...”
View HERE the contents of the issue