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Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen awareness camp for only a few a few months in 1941 but still left a devastating make. According to the testimony of survivors, Heim euthanized patients with shots of gasoline to their hearts. He performed surgeries on normally healthy people. Some recalled prisoners' skulls lay out on his desk to show perfect units of pearly whites. Yet in the chaos of the postwar period, Heim could slip from his dark history and establish himself as a reputable doctor and family man in the hotel town of Baden-Baden. His account might have ended there, but also for certain exceptional Germans who have been unwilling to let Nazi conflict crooks go unpunished, included in this a police investigator named Alfred Aedtner. After Heim fled on a tip that he was about to be arrested, Aedtner switched finding him into an overriding obsession. His search got him across European countries and across decades, and into a detailed alliance with famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. The search for Heim became a robust sign of Germany's evolving attitude toward the sins of its history, which finally crested in a prefer to see justice done at nearly every cost. As late as 2009, the unknown of Heim's disappearance remained unsolved. Now, in The Eternal Nazi, Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet reveal for the first time how Aribert Heim evaded capture - living in a working-class community of Cairo, praying in Arabic, dearest by an adopted Muslim family - while uplifting a manhunt that outlived him by a long time. It is a brilliant feat of historical detection that illuminates a nation's dramatic reckoning with the offences of the Holocaust.