Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, Argentina protested just as a matter of form. TIME Correspondent Piero Saporiti had reported that Nazi Adolf Eichmann had been run down by Israeli agents in Buenos Aires and whisked out of the country in an Israeli plane. Off went Argentina's note to Israel, asking for information and tacitly inviting an equally pro forma denial that the Israeli government knew anything about it. But last week Israel's Premier Ben-Gurion replied with one of the most undiplomatic notes in diplomatic history-and the Argentines wished they had not asked...
...tiny, improvised cell in a secluded villa, War Criminal Adolf Eichmann, 54, last week volubly answered questions hour after hour. As though bent on slow-motion suicide, the man charged with responsibility for the murder of 6,000,000 Jews was eager to tell all, often asked for pencil and paper to enlarge his replies. With evident satisfaction, Israel's Chief Investigator Abraham Selinger reported that the thin, flop-eared ex-Gestapo leader-who had proclaimed that he would kill himself if he were ever captured-was the most "cooperative" suspect he had ever interrogated...
...inverse racism implicit in his claim that Israel, as "the only sovereign authority in Jewry," had the right to seek out criminals guilty of offenses against the "Jewish people" anywhere it could find them. And he seemed equally unaware or indifferent to the fact that the trial of Adolf Eichmann, as one U.S. official pointed out, "is going to cause a serious loss of world confidence in the objectivity of the Israeli government...
Died. Paula Wolf, 64, penniless spinster sister of Adolf Hitler, of whom she once said, "I would have preferred it a thousand times over if he had remained an architect''; of a heart attack while ill with cancer; in Berchtesgaden, Germany...
...looked on, Klein dispatched the plane himself, and in effect stranded the Israeli delegation. Had the Britannia's 19-man crew carried the captured war criminal with them? Israeli officials denied it, but three days later Eichmann appeared in handcuffs before a Jaffa court, said firmly: "I am Adolf Eichmann...