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What happened to Eichmanns women ?


Hello,
does anybody know what happened to Ann Marie Schmidt and Ingrid von Ihama ? I couldnt find anything on the net...
Thanks Petr

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I might have the answer to this question because a few years ago, I took a 20th century history class where we had to do a study on the war crimes tribunal. Investigators were trying to locate Eichmann by interviewing his mistresses. An investigator interviewed Ingrid Von Ihama, who I believe was a baroness. (FYI-She was of no help, all that she said was that Eichmann would not care if anything happened to wife and children, and that he was going to have plastic surgery to change his appearance.)The second time investigators came by to interviewer her again, they were told that Ingrid and her mother had immigrated to South America, and went into oblivion. As for Ana Marie Schmidt, I never heard of her, or knew of her existence. This info came from old archives of Time or Life magazine, I don't remember. By the way, I have not seen this movie.

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Hi,
you couldn't find anything because they had never existed, leastways the filmmakers named and portrayed them. Eichmann' mistress in Doppel was an austrian Ms. Masenbucher. The filmmakers transfigure her love affair in Doppel to a jewis woman. A magazine mentioned a jewish woman however, but nothing known about her.
Ihama? It's a false name. Ihne was her name and lived with her mother. Eichmann brought her to Austria in 1944 before winter. Later she emigrated to Argentina and returned to Germany in the 60'(after Eichmann was kidnapped). She was still alive in the 90' and was never incriminated by anybody like this filmmakers did it.

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I don't know how accurately these women were portrayed first. Second, in the movie I thought Avner mentioned one of these women was no longer alive. I may be mistaken but I thought that's what Avner said when talking to Eichmann.

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I don't know how accurately these women were portrayed first. Second, in the movie I thought Avner mentioned one of these women was no longer alive. I may be mistaken but I thought that's what Avner said when talking to Eichmann.


It seems that the film was not too accurate in portraying the women. The Jewish lady near Doppl was based on a woman named Maria Moesenbacher, but as has been said previously, she was not Jewish. She did give the Haganah something they (and the Allied war crimes investigators) did not have for several months after the war, and that was a photograph of Eichmann. The Haganah tricked her into revealing that she had one and the authorities obtained it.

As far as the Hungarian lady is concerned, this film is the first I had heard of her. Judging from the historical liberties they took with the first woman, I don't have a high degree of confidence that the film portrayed her very accurately, either

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