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1962: Adolf Eichmann
ExecutedToday.com ^ | June 1, 2008 | Headsman

Posted on 05/31/2020 10:23:08 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

On this date in 1962, the architect of the Final Solution received such justice as could be meted to him on earth at Israel’s Ramla Prison.

Adolf Eichmann, the vacuum cleaner salesman turned SS Obersturnbannfuhrer, remains the only person judicially executed in the history of modern Israel, whose intelligence services kidnapped him from Argentina where he had settled after the war.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: adolfeichmann; argentina; holocaust; israel; theholocaust

1 posted on 05/31/2020 10:23:08 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

He was hanged and then cremated.


2 posted on 05/31/2020 10:51:40 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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I read an excellent first person account of Eichmann’s capture by Peter Z. Malkin, the Mossad agent who grabbed him. The book is called “Eichmann In My Hands’’.


3 posted on 05/31/2020 11:34:44 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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The Israeli government provided a Christian minister to Eichmann while he was in custody. The minister wrote a book about the visits and their discussions. Eichmann never accepted responsibility nor exhibited remorse.


4 posted on 05/31/2020 11:53:47 PM PDT by kalee
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The Struggle for a Soul by William Lovell Hull.


5 posted on 06/01/2020 12:03:25 AM PDT by kalee
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Eichmann took some measure of responsibility in that he said “I would leap laughing into my grave knowing I killed so many enemies of my country’’.

As much as I have read exhaustively on the Nazis and The Holocaust I can't fathom for the life of me what drove the German people to commit the horror they did. I'll never understand how a supposedly cultured people could stoop to the level of barbarism and depravity that they did.

6 posted on 06/01/2020 12:35:21 AM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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I have that book and have reread it. Excellent book. Picked it up at our local library sale for $1 when, sadly, they decided it had been checked out so little recently that it was time to clear it out.


7 posted on 06/01/2020 2:30:44 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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Libraries are hotbed of leftism


8 posted on 06/01/2020 3:03:30 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: jmacusa

you may not be able to imagine it but you are living in the times that will beget a repeat of the very thing.


9 posted on 06/01/2020 3:06:19 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: CheshireTheCat

His spirit lives on in blm, antifa and the democrat party,


10 posted on 06/01/2020 3:53:41 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("DonÂ’t mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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