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THE MURDERERS AMONG US: THE WIESENTHAL MEMOIRS edited by Joseph Wechsberg. 340 pages. McGraw-Hill. $6.95.

Most survivors of Hitler's death camps want nothing more than nepenthe: to forget the horror of the war years and leave revenge to God or Israeli agents. Not so Vienna-based Simon Wiesenthal, 59, the dogged detective of genocide who, since he walked out of the Mauthausen concentration camp in May 1945, has run to earth 800 Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann and, most recently, the wartime commander of the Treblinka and Sobibor death camps, Franz Stangl (TIME,...

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