# Willem Sassen Topic: [[Topics/Hannah Arendt/Hannah Arendt|Hannah Arendt]] · People in this topic are listed on the hub. - **Who:** Dutch-German Nazi journalist and war criminal who interviewed Eichmann in Argentina (per the [Bard Arendt Center](https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/excerpts-from-the-sassen-papers-2013-07-12)). ## Role in this topic - Recorded the "Sassen papers", "more than 1,300 pages of memoir and interview transcripts"; sold excerpts to *Life* after Eichmann's capture. Berkowitz: Sassen "was a Holocaust denier who attempted to get Eichmann to deny the Holocaust, which Eichmann did not" ([NYT](https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/misreading-hannah-arendts-eichmann-in-jerusalem/)).