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...Israel, anxious to find out for myself if he was human, if there was any humanity in him. I had hoped to find myself in the presence of a disfigured creature, a monster whose unspeakable crimes would be clearly legible in his three-eyed face. I was disappointed: Adolf Eichmann seemed quite normal, a man like other men -- he slept well, ate with good appetite, deliberated coolly, expressed himself clearly and was able to smile when he had to. The architect of the Final Solution was banal, just as Hannah Arendt had said...
...Lyons will not provide a restaging of the Eichmann trial. Barbie did not make policy. He was only a regional executioner, a local hangman -- he merely participated, did what he was told. His operations only extended to Lyons and its surroundings. Yet if Klaus Barbie was not "important," his trial is. It can serve a vital purpose, for future generations and for our own. Certain witnesses have to be heard; certain truths have to be uttered, repeated. Will they clarify the mystery of what happened? It does not seem possible. The determination of the killer to kill, the passivity...
...shadowy world of cloak-and-dagger spy operations, tiny Israel for years ranked as a world-class player. Agents of MOSSAD, the country's equivalent of the CIA, electrified the world in 1960 by capturing Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann and spiriting him out of Argentina under the noses of authorities. The intelligence network cast by MOSSAD and Shin Bet, Israel's FBI, was so exhaustive in the Middle East that Washington often relied on it for information and analysis. Even when the objectives of Israel's spooks were debatable, their methods virtually defined professionalism and supersecrecy...
...there are few Holocaust survivors still alive. Soon, none will be left. Meanwhile, many Nazis who dodged prosecution after the war and escaped to the West have lived ordinary lives, camouflaged by new identities. Demjanjuk is the first suspected Nazi to be extradited and brought to trial in Israel. (Eichmann was not brought to Israel through extradition proceedings. He was captured in Argentina by the Israeli secret service...
...trial is not even being broadcast daily on Israeli television; state network officials say the case has not generated sufficient interest in the country. And there are no long lines of Israelis eager to sit in on Demjanjuk's trial, as there were for Eichmann's trial...