Note: Tom Paxton explains the reasons he wrote the "Train For Auschwitz," during the period of the Eichmann trial. He was impressed that there were unrepentant Nazis still living in Argentina and Germany itself at the time.
About the session: These informal recordings of Tom Paxton are among the folksinger's first, and were made by Alan Lomax an at unspecified location in New York CIty. Pete Seeger was also on hand, and assisted in the recording.
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