Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Includes, as an Appendix, a full text of the Indictment, translated from the Hebrew. Out of mountains of courtroom evidence, both live and docu Includes, as an Appendix, a full text of the Indictment, translated from the Hebrew. Out of mountains of courtroom evidence, both live and documentary, Pearlman renders a relevant, reliable account of the drama.
The whole story is here: from the capture in Argentina, to the world-famed image of the twitching man in the glass-enclosed dock as he listened to the sagas of the ghetto fighters, the confrontation of the accused and witnesses who came back as if from the dead, the indictment enunciated by Hausner, and the defense arguments of Servatius.
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I can't say I enjoyed reading this book, but I did find it to be informative and well worth the time.
I remember when Eichmann was kidnapped from Argentina and brought to trial in Israel. This was a triumph of jurisprudence and the Israeli people. Consiglio a tutti. Serena Munari rated it really liked it Oct 07, Ivar rated it liked it Jan 31, Dennis Kocik rated it it was amazing Apr 03, Michael N Powell rated it it was amazing Aug 29, Elie rated it it was ok Jan 31, Elizabeth Mills rated it really liked it May 28, Sonal Nayyar marked it as to-read Aug 18, Juv marked it as to-read Feb 24, Dag Einar marked it as to-read Nov 15, Liam marked it as to-read Feb 07, Peter Hickey marked it as to-read Mar 11, Although they began to question whether he would arrive, nobody gave voice to their doubts.
This was some time after Eichmann usually arrived, and some of the Mossad operatives thought they should abort the mission. In the second car, Ehud, had decided to continue waiting as well — although neither Gabi nor Ehud had communicated his thoughts to the other. At five minutes after 8 another bus pulled up. A man began walking toward Garibaldi Street. The Mossad man in the first car recognized Eichmann immediately; in the other car, they recognized him 15 seconds later.
Eichmann approached the car. Then the others pulled the panic-stricken Eichmann into one of the cars. They started driving off. He showed no resistance. They gagged him, tied his hands and feet, put a pair of goggles that blocked his vision and lowered him to the floor.
They drove to their safe house and parked in the garage. It was — 50 minutes after his bus had arrived. Eichmann was taken into the house and shackled one of his legs to a bed frame.
They took off his clothes and put pajamas on him. They checked in his mouth for poison to be sure he would not try to kill himself as other Nazis had done to avoid being tried. They looked for the SS tattoo under his left armpit to confirm his identity, but it had been removed.
A Mossad interrogator tried to get him to admit his identity and, after insisting he was Ricardo Klement, eventually gave him his real name. His cooperation was full and unhesitating — even obsequious. Now he was frightened and nervous, at times pathetically eager to help. The Mossad team could hardly believe that such a monstrous criminal could look so unexceptional. But that was not just their impression; everyone who saw him was amazed at his ordinary appearance.
They expected him to look more sinister, more imposing, but he appeared harmless. They kept him for a week in a room in a safe house, never letting him out of their sight. They had to plan the next phase — getting him out of Argentina.
Its departure could not be advanced for fear of arousing the suspicions of the Argentinian authorities.
Harel was convinced the family would not announce his disappearance for fear his true identity would be revealed and they would lose public support. His Nazi associates also had to remain silent to avoid being exposed.
His family did call hospitals and clinics, but avoided calling the police. They contacted their friends but none were willing to help. The Mossad still had to take Eichmann out of the country without arousing the suspicions of the Argentinian authorities. They sent one of their agents into a local hospital with the claim that he had suffered brain damage in an accident.
He was supposed to exhibit gradual progress. On the morning of May 20, the patient had recovered sufficiently to fly home to his native Israel. Eichmann was drugged so that his senses would be blurred when he was brought to the plane and not resist. He could still walk, but needed to be held up by an agent on either side of him. They dressed him in an El Al uniform and brought him aboard.
The Mossad men drove in a group of three cars, with Eichmann in the second, to the airport. The driver embarrassingly explained that the men had enjoyed themselves so much that some were still dozing off. Two Mossad members took the half-conscious Eichmann aboard the plane. Many of the crew were disturbed to learn Eichmann was aboard the plane. Harel made sure throughout the operation that no one threatened or manhandled him.
The CIA issued a memorandum on October 9, , in response:. For example, they had reports of Eichmann in Cairo as early as and, later, in Syria. These reports, however, were about Karl Heinrich Eichmann, a different person. Simon Wiesenthal , for example, initially thought he was hiding in Austria.
Other reports suggested he was in an area near Iran working as an adviser to an oil company. The CIA was surprised when it learned of his capture in Argentina. After his capture, the CIA authorized the release of unclassified documents concerning Eichmann, his collaborators, and the RHSA offices in which he served.
For the record, let it be known that he does not deny his name and he will confront his responsibility as I have assumed mine by bringing the knowledge of the occurrences to the courts. They fired several shots and wounded a year-old student named Edgardo Vilnius. Eichmann spent nine months in jail, and was put on trial for war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity on April 11, According to Yad Vashem:.
Eichmann was defended by Dr. Robert Servatius and his assistant, Dieter Wachtenbruch. The trial, with the recounting of the ghastly crimes the Nazis perpetrated against the Jews, brought out a tumultuous emotional response among the Israeli public and the Jewish people as a whole.
Memories that had been repressed burst forth in the courtroom. People screamed and cried and wanted to attack and kill Eichmann who appeared in court inside a bulletproof glass box. The prosecution, however, demonstrated that he played a major role in the persecution of the Jews and had personal responsibility for the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Jews to Auschwitz and other camps, which he authorized against the wishes of his superiors even after it was clear Germany had lost the war.
More than witnesses testified during the fourteen week trial, which ended with the announcement of the verdict on December Eichmann was convicted on 15 counts of crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity, war crimes and membership in a criminal organization.
Hausner requested the death penalty for Eichmann. He wanted all of his victims to die. But they were not committed at my will. I never wanted to murder anyone. Only the state leadership is guilty of these mass murders. Eichmann was sentenced to hang on June 1, Eichmann asked for clemency, but the plea was rejected by President Yitzhak Ben Zvi.
After he was executed, his body was cremated and a police boat scattered the ashes on the Mediterranean. Finally, a persecutor of the Jewish people had been forced to stand trial and had been condemned by a Jewish court — a court of the state of Israel.
After many centuries, those who had freely humiliated, ostracized, deported, expelled, and murdered Jews would be answerable for their crimes. The Jews now had a nation, and an army, and a very efficient intelligence service to look after their interests no matter where they lived.
In June , nationalist extremists abducted a year-old Jewish girl, tortured her, and scarred her with swastikas. The government was pressured by the nationalist-right to sever diplomatic ties with Israel, and the Israeli ambassador was indeed expelled for a brief time. Four months later, tensions between the two countries simmered down and relations returned to normal. Motti Friedman, Webmaster: Esther Carciente. This material may not be republished without the permission of the copyright owner.
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