Wizenthal's becomes an American secret agent: as yet he wasn't a "DiplomIngenieur", just an "Ingenieur" ("Ing."). He also wasn't yet an "ethnic German" expelled from Poland, but a Jew who "would like to return to his homeland", Poland. [Translator's comment: note the odd form of the signature name here. According to this letter, his given name is still "Szymon", but his surname has already evolved into the unauthorized form "Wiesenthal"!]

 

Wizenthal is liberal with his favors: "friendly services" such as the Mossad can also count on him. The borders between Israel and the United States are beginning to blur. (Translation)

 

A victor's grin.

Once upon a time Wizenthal had to keep his pre-trial consultations with witnesses a secret. But by 1992 (the Sabukoschek trial) Wizenthal had the Federal Austrian judiciary firmly in his grip. He brings his actors himself and escorts them into court, where he assists the slapstick farce in the role of a kind of psychological prompter. Scriptwriter and direc-tor: also both performed by academically accredited engineer Szymon Wizenthal, born in Buczacz - or in Lemberg, as the case may be.

Responsibility for this judicial grotesque rests with Buchgraber, the antiFascist from Graz who moonlights as Israeli examining magistrate (cf. p.).

 

Even though Yugoslavia - the nation with a hundred thousand "war crimes files" obtained through forgery and torture - no longer exists on the map, this is precisely where a Serbian-Jewish journalist came from to serve as Wizenthal's all-purpose weapon by testifying against Dr. Egon Sabukoschek, chief surgeon at a dental clinic in Graz.

 

A number of witnesses "accused" chief surgeon Sabukoschek of... having saved their lives (cf. the Wagner case, p.). The examinig magistrate from Graz, Buchgraber - whom we may feel free to describe as Wizenthal's lackey - thought this wasalready quite suspicious.

 

Buchgraber, the examining magistrate from Graz: single-handedly he order Sabukoschek imprisoned pending his trial. He permitted Wizenthal to appe before the court with the witnesses to be questioned. This sadist from Gra who had denied the extremely nearsighted student Frantz Radl his correcti lenses (-24 diopters!) during his term of political imprisonment, now hopes obtain files from Belgrade. Falsified files, in other words, since that's all that available there - as we know from ex-President Waldheim's case.