Willem Sassen

Willem Sassen (16th april 1918 at Geertruidenberg, Netherlands – 2001) was a Dutch traitor, Nazi journalist and a member of the SS, where he had the rank of Untersturmführer corresponding to lieutenant. In the 1950s, Sassen interviewed Adolf Eichmann, several years after the end of the Third Reich and subsequently Eichmann's reign as head of the Nazi's Final Solution. The Sassen document (or Sassen tapes), approximately 600 pages of material from these interviews, is allegedly locked away in a vault. Parts of the interviews were published in two articles in Life magazine. It is assumed that the transcripts of the interviews are much more realistic and personal than the autobiography Eichmann wrote while in prison, possibly attempting to place himself in a better light and alter the outcome of the trial.

Willem Sassen was the father of the sociologist and economist Saskia Sassen (born 1949 in The Hague, Netherlands).

External links

• What to do with Eichmann's memoirs? (note: this is a Holocaust-denier website)
  
• Zionism in the Age of Dictators (1983), Chapter 25
  
• Evidence for the Implementation of the Final Solution (hosted by the University of the West of England, Bristol)
  
• Review by Paul de Schipper of the book by Gerard Groeneveld: "Kriegsberichter", Nederlandse SS-oorlogsverslaggevers 1941–1945. Nijmegen: Uitgeverij Vantilt ISBN 90-77503-09-9 in dutch language