October 19, 2016 Wednesday
Bedtime Story
Mossad Goes After Adolf Eichmann
Mossad Goes After Adolf Eichmann
After the war, now it was the time for the victims to
strike back.
Many survivors of the Holocaust under the leadership of
Simon Wiesenthal took on the task of hunting down the Nazis no matter where
they would be and bring them to justice.
They came to be known as the Nazi Hunters.
Eichmann may very well have gone unpunished for his
crimes but for the death of his father in 1960 which led to the congregation of
his entire family, including Eichmann’s brother Otto.
Now Otto had a close resemblance with Adolf Eichmann.
Mossad agents took photographs of all of them,
particularly Otto.
Another lead came from the girlfriend of Eichmann’s son
Klaus Eichmann in Buenos Aires.
Klaus would often gloat about his father’s Nazi exploits
to Sylvia Hermann, his girlfriend.
Sylvia as it turned out was daughter of a half-Jewish
German and this information soon reached the prosecutor-general of Hesse in
West Germany.
By 1957 Mossad director Isser Harel got to hear about
it.
A team was dispatched to Buenos Aires and weeks of
surveillance confirmed the identity of the war criminal.
Since Argentina had a known history of sheltering Nazi
war criminals and refusing extradition requests, Israeli Prime Minister took
the bull by the horn.
He directly passed the order to capture this absconder
and bring him to Israel for trial.
Rafael Eitan or “Rafi the smelly” a Mossad and Shin Bet
(internal intelligence agency) agent was assigned this task which he
accomplished with his eight-man team.
Yet, it was not all this espionage intrigue that
stimulated Milgram to perform the Yale experiments.
It was what Adolf Eichmann said and his anomalous demeanor
during the trial that struck him odd.
Adolf Eichmann quite surprisingly seemed to display no
sign of guilt, nor remorse nor regret considering the enormity of his crime.
In his 1960 pardon plea this is reflected absolutely
clearly:
“There is a need
to draw a line between the leaders responsible and the people like me forced to
serve as mere instruments in the hands of the leaders.
“I was not a responsible leader, and as such do not
feel myself guilty”.
It was these words that kept ringing in the brain of
the fresh doctor of psychology from Harvard now an assistant professor at Yale.
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Another great educator and teacher that I am aware of is Professor
Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an IIT graduate and
a former professor at BARC, actually does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
All
his books can be downloaded for free through this link.
For
edu-tainment of your children may I suggest Kids Songs channel.
The Story of the Eichmann became the stuff of legend inspiring many books and even movies
The Movie on the Mossad agent Rafi Eitan
The Media Lapped up the Story
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