Israel

So wanted Eichmann to death to save

More than half a century after the execution of Adolf Eichmann, Israel has the pardon of the German-published. A Letter, in which the Nazi war criminals of any guilt of inciting.

To mark international Holocaust remembrance day was the handwritten document in the official residence of the Israeli President Reuven Rivlin presented. At the commemoration of the 55 years after the trial of Eichmann – was also Tami Hausner-Raveh present, the daughter of the then Israeli Chefanklägers Gideon Hausner.

Also on site was Rafael Eitan. Together with other agents of the secret service Mossad, he had the former Obersturmbannführer
In 1960 in Argentina, tracked down
and after Israel abducted. There was then sentenced to death.

“Not such a high-ranking personality to have been”

In his plea for mercy to the then head of state, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi wrote to Eichmann that he was not a “responsible leader” ‘ve been under duress as the “Instrument” served and did not feel guilty. The judges in the assessment of his Person to a critical error occur, “because you’re not in the time and in the enable in the I during the war years have found”. He was not “a high-ranking personality to have been” the persecution of the Jews, “independently would have been able to operate, and farms would have”.

Adolf Eichmann during the world’s spectacular process against him in Israel

Eichmann was in the RSHA of the Deportation of the Jews in the extermination camps organized. After the end of the Second world war, he was for some years in Germany spend
before he was through Austria to Argentina fled.

“I detest the Jews committed abomination”

Also, it’s wrong that he never of human emotions have influence, Eichmann. Under the “impression of the experienced outrageous abomination”, he had “immediately” to his transfer asked. He “detest the Jews committed abomination as the greatest crime and think that it is fair that the perpetrators of such atrocities now and in the future will be held accountable”.

Eichmann asked Ben-Zvi in the Letter from 29. In may 1962, “to order that the death sentence will not be carried out”. Two days later he was with the strand is executed.

bor/sc (afp, dpa)