Interview with Shalom Nagar, Adolf Eichmann's Israeli hangman; a 23-year old prisons' service guard, of Yemenite origins, one of 22 guards assigned to Eichmann during his trial. Walter Bingham travels all over Israel and the international Jewish world to bring you in-depth reports in his exciting magazine style program. Adolf Eichmann at trial. The government of Israel wanted to give Eichmann a fair trial but doubted he would go freely. 49, No. ... personal mission is to teach about the capture of Eichmann and to teach about the Holocaust,” Avraham told JI in an interview. Read about our approach to external linking. JERUSALEM (AP) _ Adolf Eichmann’s youngest son, breaking the family’s silence, said Monday that he is relieved that his father was hanged for being an architect of the Holocaust. Of the 12 million concentration and death camp victims, approximately 6 million were of Jewish heritage, Over 1 million of the victims were children. One of the crew stayed in Argentina. Exclusive Interview: How Adolf Eichmann Was Caught Back in 1960, Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was brought to justice. The doctor said he was a bit sick and we handed over all the proper documents.". W hen Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann escaped from the Allied forces that had captured him after World War II, he disappeared and was presumed dead by some — … Find out how in an interview with Mossad agent Rafael Eitan. You must remember that at the time, there was no internet or computers, so nobody was able to check. We gave Eichmann the same name and dressed him in an El Al cabin crew uniform," Eitan said. Source: Life, Vol. The commander of the secret mission was Rafael (Rafi) Eitan, today 86 years old. Walter Bingham & INR Staff , Exclusive Interview: How Adolf Eichmann Was Caught. In 1934, Adolf Eichmann was appointed to the Jewish section of the “security services” of the SS.From then on, he became deeply involved with the formulation and operation of the “final solution to the Jewish question.” He drew up the idea of deportation of Jews into ghettos, and went about concentrating Jews in isolated areas with murderous efficiency. Walter's World broadcasts every Sunday from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Israel time on Israel National Radio. "When Peter Malkin jumped on Eichmann, I was just 5 meters behind him," he stated. Find out about his role in the Jonathan Pollard affair, his time as a Member of Knesset with the Gil Pensioner's Party and his thoughts on current events and the upcoming elections. Otto Adolf Eichmann (/ ˈ aɪ x m ə n / EYEKH-mən, German: [ˈɔto ˈʔaːdɔlf ˈʔaɪçman]; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust—the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" in Nazi terminology. The Eichmann capture is just one of Eitan's many stories. "They had a daughter by the name of Sylvia and she told her family that she has a friend named Nicolas Eichmann." (Photo: Adolf Eichmann stands in a protective glass booth flanked by Israeli police during his trial in 1961 in Jerusalem. January 27, 2016, 10:34 PMlatest revision January 27, 2016, 10:37 PM. His trial brought to light details of the Nazis' systematic plan which resulted in the murder of approximately 12 million civilians. Parts of the interviews were published in two articles in Life magazine. Interview. 3 min read. The first page of Adolf Eichmann’s plea for clemency for his role in the Holocaust, released to the public for the first time yesterday. Text: The final solution: liquidation. So how did Eitan, while working with the Israeli Mossad track down the elusive Nazi war criminal? The 'guardian of the devil': Interview with the jailer of Adolf Eichmann. "We gave him documents of some El Al airline flight crew member. It was back in 1960 that Adolf Eichmann, one of the top Nazi leaders and architects of the Final Solution to exterminate the Jewish people was caught in Argentina. Flickr. Peter Malkin Interview & Adolf Eichmann Trial Video. Servatius' next question is missing and the footage continues with Eichmann testifying about how a particular memo regarding the final solution came to be written and circulated. Eichmann's "Interview" in Life Magazine. Thu 28 Jan 2016 07.04 EST. Eitan credits the unassuming Mossad head Issur Harel for organizing the secret mission to extract the wanted mass murdered and bring him to trial for crimes against humanity. Peer deeper into the Operation Finale true story by watching an interview with the real Peter Malkin, who is portrayed by Oscar Isaac in the movie. For several days in late November, 2006, I interviewed Justice Gabriel Bach at his home in Jerusalem in connection with his role as a prosecutor in the trial against Adolf Eichmann. For the the full audio interview click here. Saskia Sassen talks about the tapes, her memories of their secret visitor and the night the Israelis snatched Eichmann off the streets of Buenos Aires. Eitan continued, "We gave him a injection to make him dizzy. About the Interview. Identifying Eichmann and Plan to Snatch Mengele at the Same Time (8/15/60) [pdf] Information to Use Against Eichmann (2/18/61) [pdf] Interrogation of Parents and Brother of SS Obersturmbannführer Otto Adolf Eichmann (1/29/47) [pdf] Interview with Tuvia Friedman Regarding the Hunt for Eichmann … Credit: Central Press/Getty Images), History as told by the people who were there. For mp3 archives click here. Offer him refuge?″ The family had escaped the Holocaust. Arutz Sheva staff writer Ben Bresky contributed to this report. 60 years ago this week, Adolf Eichmann, one of the primary architects of the Holocaust, was captured in Argentina by a secret group of Mossad and Shin Bet agents. The crew normally, even today, goes to the plane not through the civilian terminal but in a different area. Their walk is unstudied; their sober and intense attention, visibly stiffening under the impact of grief as they listen to the tales of suffering, is natural; their impatience with the prosecutors attempt to drag out the hearings is spontaneous and refreshing; their attitude toward th… As the story goes, the younger Eichmann had boasted about his father's Nazi exploits. The continuance of the war finally changed out attitude on emigration entirely. "The Eichmann Trial: 50 Years After": selected documents from the Israel State Archives "Eichmann Prosecutor Interview: A Conversation with Justice Gabriel Bach, Senior Prosecutor in the Adolf Eichmann Trial" by Frank Tuerkheimer, Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann recorded hours of interview about his involvement in the Holocaust while in hiding in Argentina, before his capture by Israel agents and trial. "There was a German family [of Jewish heritage] was living in Argentina with the name of Hermann," related Eitan. Adolf Eichmann, German high official who was hanged by the State of Israel for his part in the Holocaust, the Nazi extermination of Jews during World War II. Topics range from cultural and entertainment events and social problems to major political interviews and statements recorded live as they happen. Our once large family had lost 98% of its members to Adolf Eichmann’s death trains in Auschwitz. In May 1960 the Israelis located and kidnapped Eichmann from Argentina, and brought him to trial in Israe. My mom’s first tearful then angry reaction to the news on the radio was simply indescribable. He only became aware of his duty to hang and oversee the cremation of Eichmann's body hours before the actual time of … 22, November 28, 1960. Home Breaking News 60 years ago - desk perpetrator or mass murderer? This interview was used heavily in Eichmann's trial. Millions of soldiers were killed in World War II as well. Join the web’s most supportive community of creators and get high-quality tools for hosting, sharing, and streaming videos in gorgeous HD with no ads. Eichmann became the first and so far only person to be tried and sentenced to death in Israel. The letter was signed and dated: “Adolf Eichmann Jerusalem, May 29, 1962.” Eichmann was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and sentenced to death on Dec. 15, 1961. The father meanwhile was living under a false name in Buenos Aires. Martin Freeman: exposing Adolf Eichmann. “People like spy stories, so you come with a spy story. Eitan related that there was also a plan to kidnapped Dr. Josef Mengele, the sadistic Nazi doctor who conducted cruel experiments on death camp inmates. All the programmes from 2015, Witness to more than 50 events in a momentous global conflict, Looking back at almost six years of global conflict, from Hiroshima to the Holocaust, From the Bolshevik takeover of 1917 to the break-up of the Soviet Union, Events from history when animals took centre stage, Stories of endurance, world records and remarkable athletes, The communities, politics, leaders and events that have shaped Africa, History as told by the people who were there, More than 50 first-hand accounts of significant moments in WW2, Animals Who Made History: Programmes and downloads, Don't miss these stories of astonishing achievement. Eichmann was a part of this group, consulted because of his firsthand knowledge of the “Jewish question.” The alleged “Sassen Interview” are the minutes of their meetings. He has two children and he has never given an interview, but according to Carmen he believes his father was innocent. For the full interview with Rafael Eitan download the Walter's World special broadcast by clicking here. In 1957, Sassen interviewed Adolf Eichmann about his involvement in the Nazis' Final Solution. The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann recorded hours of interview about his involvement in the Holocaust, before his capture in 1960 by Israeli agents. Location: Jerusalem, Israel Various shots inside the courtroom, where a tape-recorder is being played. Israel National Radio's Walter's World conducted an exclusive interview with Eitan as part of a special broadcast on Israel's Mossad and secret service in which he reviewed the book Israel's Silent Defenders recently released from the Jerusalme based Gefen Publishing. Following the war Eichmann lived in Germany under a false name before fleeing to Argentina, where he … As head of the Gestapo's "Jewish Evacuation Department," Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) was the driving force in the impoverishment, deportation, and … Willem Sassen, a Dutch fascist, conducted an interview with Eichmann in Argentina in 1956. Witness talks to the daughter of the Dutch journalist, Willem Sassen, who recorded the Eichmann interviews in Argentina. The televised trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961 was a landmark in Holocaust history. The Maariv daily carried a front-page picture of Ricardo Eichmann, 40, and Zvi Aharoni, a former agent of the Mossad secret service, showing them looking at a newspaper article about the elder Eichmann. Euan Ferguson. Then watch the Adolf Eichmann trial videos that feature the former Nazi on the stand in Israel in 1961. To mark the 70th anniversary of … Comment: Kind of interesting. At times Eichmann seems like he is taking the piss.