later they were allowed to disembark. He married Miep van der Voort, with whom he had two daughters. Their elder daughter is Saskia Sassen (born 1947 in The Hague), the American sociologist and professor of economics. The Sassen family lived first in Ciudad Jardín Lomas del Palomar in Greater Buenos Aires, where their second daughter was born. Sassen started to work as a journalist, translator and as a ghost writer for Hans-Ulrich Rudel and later Adolf Eichmann. Around 1960, Willem Sassen was recruited by Gerhard Mertins. He was asked to represent Merex AG, which was a cover for the illegal arms trade controlled by the German secret service Bundesnachrichtendienst. Other representatives in Latin America were Klaus Barbie (Bolivia), Friedrich Schwend (Peru), his brother, Alfons Sassen (Ecuador), and, in Madrid, Spain, Otto Skorzeny. In the 1970s, Sassen among others worked as a PR-consultant for Chile's dictator Augusto Pinochet and Paraguay's dictator Alfredo Stroessner. Sassen was interviewed for an edition of the British World in Action (Granada/ITV, 1978) about his connections in Argentina with Josef Mengele; the fugitive Auschwitz concentration camp physician was still alive in a then unknown location. Sassen's third wife was Els Delbaere, the daughter of a Flemish artist who, because of his own Nazi past, also fled to Argentina. The Eichmann interviews In 1957, Sassen interviewed Adolf Eichmann about his involvement in the Nazis' Final Solution. In reality the interviews were group discussions arranged by Sassen and his publisher Eberhard Fritsch and held at Sassen's Buenos Aires home over a number of Sundays. Others were also in attendance, although Eichmann and his revelations dominate proceedings. In 1980, the Sassen documents or Sassen tapes, were transferred to Eichmann's widow, Veronika. The Sassen interviews are documented in detail in Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth first published in German in 2011 and in English in 2014. About 15 hours of audio recordings survive out of around 70 hours in total. The tapes were recycled on cost grounds after transcripts of the conversation were made. The complete transcripted text runs to about 700 pages. At Eichmann's Jerusalem trial the tapes and the full transcript were not considered admissible to the court - only 83 pages which Eichmann had annotated or corrected were allowed as evidence. The audio recordings of Eichmann recounting his role in the Holocaust were featured in the documentary series, The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes, directed by