Ladislas Faragó

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Ladislas Faragó (born September 21, 1906 in Csurgó , † October 15, 1980 in New York ) was a Hungarian author and private scholar .

Life

Ladislas Farago was a journalist who from 1928 wrote articles for The New York Times- Wide World Bureau and the Sunday Chronicle London from Hungary . Farago was a Jew and therefore threatened with persecution in Europe. He emigrated to the United States and worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence from 1942 to 1946 .

Ladislas Farago wrote about military history of the Second World War, including a biography of George Patton , which was also the basis of a feature film about Patton, about secret services and researched the whereabouts of prominent National Socialists whose whereabouts were unclear after the war, for example Adolf Eichmann and Martin Bormann and Joseph Mengele . In 1972 he made headlines with a report in the Daily Express . He thought he had identified Martin Bormann as a businessman in Argentina. Soon after, however, it was announced that Bormann's skeleton had been found in Berlin and the picture that was supposed to point to Farago Bormann turned out to be a photo of a school teacher. Farago stuck to his version in a book (Aftermath), which he published in 1974.

Works

  • Abyssinia under Haerenes Opmarch , 1935
  • Abyssinia on the Eve , 1935
  • Palestine on the Eve , 1936
  • Palestine at the Crossroads , 1937
  • The riddle of Arabia , 1939
  • German psychological warfare , New York 1942, Reprint New York (Arno Press) 1972. ISBN 0-405-04747-9
  • with Ellis M. Zacharias: Behind Closed Doors , 1950
  • Burn after reading , 1961
  • The Tenth Fleet , 1962
  • Strictly from Hungary , 1962
  • Patton: Ordeal and Triumph , 1964
  • The Broken Seal: "Operation Magic" and the Secret Road to Pearl Harbor , 1967. German translation: Codebrecher am Werk. Nevertheless, Pearl Harbor , Berlin / Darmstadt / Vienna (German Book Association) came about in 1969.
  • The game of the foxes. The untold story of German espionage in the United States and Great Britain during World War II , New York (D. McKay) 1971. German translation Das Spiel der Füchse. German espionage in England and the USA 1918–1945 , Frankfurt / Main a. a. (Ullstein) 1972. ISBN 3-550-07286-4
  • Aftermath. Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich , New York (Simon and Schuster) 1974. ISBN 0-671-21676-7 . German translation Scheintot. Martin Bormann and other NS figures in South America , Hamburg (Hoffmann & Campe) 1975. ISBN 3-455-01939-0

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benno Varon: Professions of a Lucky Jew . Associated University Presses, 1992, ISBN 0-8453-4837-X , pp. 384 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ^ Britannica , Article Farago
personal data
SURNAME Faragó, Ladislas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian author and private scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Csurgó
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1980
Place of death new York