Word: eichmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suspicious, for the neighborhood was remote; why should anyone choose it for a factory? In the end, he put aside his doubts. The Israeli agent secretly photographed him, and from these pictures came convincing identification. In April 1960, other Israeli agents carried off the celebrated kidnaping that delivered Adolf Eichmann to Jerusalem...
...Eichmann demonstrated the banality of evil, Keitel proved its myopia. Actually, the chief of Hitler's high command was neither a Prussian nor a very convincing "war criminal." Keitel was a frustrated farmer who, on his rare wartime leaves, loved nothing more than to muck about his Brunswick estate of Helmscherode, buying new farm implements or hunting roebuck and wild boar. Almost coincidentally, he signed his name to Hitler's orders decreeing the deaths of millions. As another Nazi general wrote of Keitel later, "He was certainly not wicked au fond, as one occasionally reads...
...manipulate politics, to deceive people, and coerce our allies. He is horrified at our capacity to watch computerized slaughter on the 5 o'clock news, and to support it. He wonders "where the good Germans were in 1937 when the Stukas were bombing Madrid, or in 1941, when Eichmann began punctiliously to carry out his orders. A great puzzle, but one which is losing its distance...
Bonn has wrapped its border barters in tight secrecy. One reason is fear of adverse public opinion. West Germans were initially revulsed by the deals, in which Ulbricht's cynicism reminded them of Adolf Eichmann's offer during World War II to swap Jews for trucks. There is also clear reluctance to upset the East Germans, who might end the arrangement if it proved embarrassing. So deep is this reluctance, in fact, that Western authorities have been cracking down hard on Westerners seeking to assist in the escapes of East Berliners. Last week three West Germans who helped...
...could bridge between the two types of Biblical faith. A leader of German Judaism until he went to Palestine in 1938, Buber fought Nazism with patriarchal dignity; yet he accepted an award from a German university a few years after the war and begged Israel not to execute Adolf Eichmann. Thus last week when this man of belief and love died in Jerusalem at the age of 87, he was mourned by men of his own faith, and of other faiths, and of no faith...