{"id":95975,"date":"2022-06-12T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=95975"},"modified":"2022-06-12T07:13:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T05:13:43","slug":"21-05-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=95975","title":{"rendered":"New film brings Eichmann\u2019s Holocaust confessions to life using his own voice"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>New film brings Eichmann\u2019s Holocaust confessions to life using his own voice<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

STUART WINER<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Original recordings are dubbed over actors portraying senior Nazi figure and his interviewer before Israel put him on trial; he expresses pride in genocide, says has no regrets<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Adolf Eichmann during his trial in Jerusalem (public domain)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Convicted Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is heard but not seen in a new film as an actor mouths the words he used over 60 years ago to describe his key role in the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eichmann, a key architect of Nazi Germany\u2019s Final Solution, went into hiding after the war and was snatched from Argentina by Israeli intelligence in May 1960 to be put on trial in Jerusalem. Israel executed the top Nazi official by hanging in 1962 for his role in the mass murder of six million Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

Four years before he was captured, Eichmann gave hours of interviews to Dutch Nazi journalist Willem Sassen at the reporter\u2019s home in Argentina. Sassen was one of many Nazis who also fled to the South American country after the war<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The recordings include remarks attributed to Eichmann that prosecutors presented at the trial, but that he denied at the time, including his clear declaration of having no regrets about the mass murder and even an expression of disappointment that millions more Jews were not killed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eichmann claimed in his defense during the trial that he was just a minor bureaucrat.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn conclusion, I must say to you\u2026 I regret nothing. I have no desire to say that we did something wrong,\u201d Eichmann said in the recordings.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we had killed 10.3 million Jews I would say with satisfaction \u2018Good, we destroyed an enemy.\u2019 Then we would have fulfilled our mission. And thus, to my regret, it was not to be,’\u201d Eichmann is heard saying in parts of the recordings that feature in the film and in which he was apparently referring to the entire Jewish population of Europe on the eve of the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n

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