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...chief architect of the Holocaust and coiner of the term "final solution," from a street outside Buenos Aires, and later wrote a book about the arrest; in New York City. So repulsed that he wore gloves, Malkin approached Eichmann, then living under an assumed name, with the greeting "un momentito, Se?or" before wrestling him to the ground and into a waiting car. Agents later smuggled Eichmann to Israel, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

...Adolf Eichmann--the chief architect of the Holocaust and coiner of the term "final solution"--from a street outside Buenos Aires; of complications from an infection; in New York City. So repulsed that he wore gloves, Malkin approached Eichmann, then living under an assumed name, with the greeting "un momentito, seņor" before wrestling him to the ground and into a waiting car. The agents later smuggled him to Israel, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged in 1962. In a book he wrote about the capture, he recalled Eichmann's reaction when Malkin told him that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 14, 2005 | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

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