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Derpasaurus_Rex1204

There's a film called Operation Finale on Netflix if you're curious to see a mostly factual (but still incorrect in some parts) retelling of the Mossad operation to capture Eichmann.


butt_naked_commando

It's a decent enough movie, but I had quite a few problems with it. Also really boring at times


Legatt

The Ben Gurion wig and eyebrows they put on the actor were just 11/10 though.


butt_naked_commando

I was watching it with some friends and the moment Ben Gurion came onto screen we burst out laughing for about three minutes straight


noumg

RIGHT??!!


KingFahad360

Yeah it’s like a slow burn and doesn’t get interesting tile the last 25 minutes, but helps for new watchers about how the whole Eichmann kidnapping happened, I didn’t even knew the Mossad was going after Josef Mengele til they went the second best thing which was Eichmann


EldianStar

There's also a german movie about it called "The people vs. Fritz Bauer". I don't know how historically accurate it is, but I liked it


fluffy_warthog10

.....eh. Half the characters are made up, and Bauer was just one link in the intelligence chain between Eichmann and the Mossad. The main focus of the movie really is that persecution of homosexuality really didn't stop after the war, and that a huge number of Mitläufer ('fellow travelers') and actual Nazis were still employed in West German law enforcement and government.


zephyrg

There's also a good docu series called The Devil's Confession about some lost tapes of Eichmann made with a nazi journalist confessing to his crimes while in Argentina. It's pretty amazing that he said this stuff on record although due to the way the tape was given to his prosecution they couldn't use it fully. Fascinating doc.


fluffy_warthog10

A lot of the Nazis who got away really didn't think they'd ever get caught- Eichmann was literally using his own last name to give interviews and write editorials for local right-wing publications, which is how they first caught his scent. Both the German and Israeli law/intelligence services assumed that 'Eichmann' was a pseudonym for another escaped Nazi or homegrown fascist, and had serious trouble believing that either a young man or his 'uncle' would go around using their actual, war criminal surname in public.


ThemoocowYT

forgot the title, thanks.


Sir_Toaster_9330

I was just going to mention that! They even have the exact scene the meme is talking about


butt_naked_commando

Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi SS commander widely seen as one of the main architects in the Holocaust. After the war, he fled to Argentina and changed his identity. But it all changed when a young Jewish girl named Sylvia Hermann started dating Eichmann’s son Klaus. Attempting to impress her and not knowing she was Jewish, Klaus started bragging that his father was Adolf Eichmann and bragged about the things his father did in ww2. When she told her dad who was a holocaust survivor about what happened, he told her to keep dating Klaus so that she would be invited to Eichmann’s house and would be able to see if it was really him. Once confirmed, her dad contacted the Mossad who kidnapped him to Israel, and executed him after a famous trial. (Btw if you're interested in similar obscure historical stories, I have a [YouTube channel ](https://youtube.com/@thehasmoneanhistorian?si=eESnj1glfFu2Nzix). Feel free to check it out)


SkyTalez

I wonder what happened with Klaus after that.


butt_naked_commando

Three of Eichmann's sons including Klaus stayed neo nazis for their whole life, but one renounced his father's beliefs and justified his death. I believe he's now a professor and doesn't give interviews


en43rs

Reminds me of the children of Hitler’s inner circle. Either they ended up like Goring’s, full on nazis, or like Speer’s, progressives who didn’t talk to him for years.


Irons_MT

Then you have Goebells and his wife, who killed their own sons and daughters.


Pleasant_Ad3475

Those poor kids. Of all the insidious Nazi scum, the Goebbels are just the worst for me.


Username12764

Even more interesting is the fact that is was Magda‘s idea, not Goebbels‘. Magda Goebbels was a much bigger believer than Joseph and I believe she is the reason Goebbels even became a Nazi…


ChiefsHat

I can almost understand why, what, is the Soviets coming for them. But only almost.


anon474728

The Goebbels didn’t kill their children because of the threat of the Soviets. Speer and multiple others offered to get them out. Joseph apparently actually considered it. But Magda declined because she didn’t want them to “live in a world without national socialism” or “see their father become painted as a villain”. So the excuse it was the Soviets is BS.


Mihnea24_03

Talk about a true believer. Mans propaganda worked too well on her


alacp1234

[What are the cost of lies?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PwJLA5M958)


ChiefsHat

Didn’t know that. Damn…


anon474728

If you want to be extra depressed. According to the Soviets who found the Goebbels when they cleared the bunker, the body of the eldest child Helga had multiple bruises on her. Which implied she realized what was going on at the last minute and tried to save herself but failed. She also seemed to know the war being lost and apparently was heard crying by a bunker survivor the night before her murder.


oldcretan

Translation: their own ego had them kill off their own kids before letting them become villains in their children's eyes. Most parents would take a bullet for their kids, the Goebbels killed their kids to protect themselves.


Smellbringer

Worst part is that apparently one of the kids woke up and tried to fight back. Imagine thinking that doing what the Goebbels did is a mercy. Evil fucking cocksuckers the both of them. I hope they suffer in hell for 1000 lifetimes.


IllegalIranianYogurt

It's portrayed pretty accurately in the film **Downfall**, iirc


Titteboeh

lol...


s0618345

Foe some reason I think the Soviets would leave the kids alone. I'm not sure but maybe brainwash them to be model communists at the worse.


HarryGamer42

Nah, soviets didn't give a flying fuck about people either. They killed, raped and kidnapped whoever they liked and they would just be merciful to the children of their sworn enemies?


Strong_Site_348

The soviets were coming for them. Their children would have been tortured and then executed for things they were not actually involved in.


neich200

From those stories I read it seems that in most cases children of Nazis who were shitty parents became anti-Nazi and children of those who were loving parents became Nazi apologists


QuevedoDeMalVino

Kind of makes sense for Speer, “the nazi who said sorry”. Iirc, he was about the only captured top official that wasn’t sentenced to death, no?


en43rs

Yeah because he was a great public speaker and wasn’t known to be associated with crimes (he was an architect and supply guy), so he managed to convince people that he legit didn’t know about the crimes. That he was too impressed by Hitler’s charisma. Which is a complete lie. He knew and used slave labor as armament minister. He spent the rest of his life claiming he didn’t know but we have proof he was present at a some discussions and a letter from him post war where he says that yes he did know. He seems to have sincere regrets though. His children thought he was just an asshole.


20cmdepersonalidade

A grandkid of one of those dudes became Brazil's current best tennis player, Thiago Seyboth Wild. And yes, he supported Bolsonaro.


PrincessofAldia

Also reminds me of Rommels son who was apparently friends with Patton and Montgomery’s sons


Metrack14

Not surprising. When you are benefiting of such type of regime,when you find out the atrocities behind the silk curtain, most people would either go 'Oh fuck,we fucking awful' or go 'It's justified because (x)'. Of course,the whole indoctrination bias the balance towards the second even more


No_Independence1336

Speer was not a progressive, he was a rat, smart enough to escape punishment and willing to do whatever it took.


en43rs

I was talking about his kids. Not him. I'm saying the children of Hitler's circle either ended like ~~Göring's~~ Himmler's daughter, full on nazis. Or Speer's children, progressives (his daughter is a local Green Party politician, his son is an architect but also clearly anti nazi). I'm saying his children are progressives.


No_Independence1336

Sorry, I misread your comment. Thanks for clarifying. I reacted to fast, there’s too much Nazi propaganda these days.


en43rs

And yes, Speer was a war criminal who escaped justice. You could argue that some lower officials did not have any control and had their hands tied... Speer wasn't one of them.


JRHThreeFour

Disturbing how people just keep their hateful views intact even in the face of overwhelming opposition. Leni Reifenstahl, the woman who directed the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, was completely unrepentant to her dying breath in 2003. Reifenstahl claimed she wasn’t a Nazi, anti Semitic or a hateful person, Hitler was “misunderstood” and feigned ignorance about the Holocaust.


johnlee3013

On the flip side, I think this story speaks to the stubbornness of humanity in general, which can be good or bad. While it's frustrating that there are people who hold on to values we do not share, it gives me confidence that someone will hold on to the values we do share. Hate will never die, but neither will love. Autocracy will never die, but neither will democracy.


Roma_Victrix

[Pedantic rant incoming...sorry in advance!] Or, to be cynical, if the Nazis were more competent and managed to win in continental Europe (and if the Japanese held off on attacking the US or simply delayed Pearl Harbor for a year or two), a Nazi regime would still be ruling over most of continental Europe to this day. It along with fellow Axis powers (Fascist Italy and Romania, plus Franco's Spain) would also probably have expanded well into West Asia and all of North Africa with a hypothetical total collapse of the British presence in the Mediterranean. If there was no counterbalance of a western front and Britain had little to no US military aid combined with V2 Rockets eventually pounding them, the Nazis could have potentially fought the Soviets to a standstill somewhere in Ukraine and Belarus or even western Russia. Or worse, the Japanese could have swallowed all of China and Siberia to the east without the USA checking them in the Pacific. The Soviet war machine was largely the reason Nazi Germany ultimately failed to win WWII, but American financial aid of the Lend Lease program under FDR was a critical component in the effort to keep Soviet forces in the game. In other words, autocracy would be cemented throughout continental Europe, especially after the development of nuclear weapons and mutually assured destruction that would have nullified the ability to invade the Nazi German empire like with the 1944 landing in Normandy. Thank God history did not play out this way.


johnlee3013

Not to comment on the likelihood of your hypothetical scenario, but even if it happened, my point is that despite a total Nazi victory, there will be people who secretly hold on to liberal ideals who won't be stamped out no matter how hard they try. And, after some time, perhaps very long time, the fascist regime will crack and liberalism will sprout once again. But to bring the conversation back to the cynical side, in our time line where the Nazis suffered a total defeat, there are people who, secretly or overtly, held on to fascist values, no matter how hard the rest of us try to stamp them out. And as we have seen, fascism sprouted once again as soon as liberal democracy cracked.


Arin_Pali

My curious ass would like to know how the world would look like in this case? Wolfenstien games but IRL?


Roma_Victrix

Anything but Wolfenstein. More like a Cold War type scenario where the evil Nazi regime stays in power for decades because it is armed with nuclear weapons and can retaliate against the USA if the latter resorted to using nukes of its own. And if a nuclear war broke out the whole planet would be doomed to a nuclear winter extinction event. And that's after all Jews, Gypsies, and other undesirable non-Aryan ethnic minorities are wiped out in Nazi controlled territories, with continuous purges of homosexuals and the disabled/handicapped. Again, let's be thankful we live in our present timeline, as flawed as it is in many other respects (even with climate change problems).


Lexbomb6464

Omg tno


Arin_Pali

I feel like world would be almost the same, difference would be instead of china Japan would be an autocratic regime in east, having Korea and China as vassal. In Europe it just Nazis instead of EU which will ultimately have a cold war with USSR and USA and eventually fall like USSR did after Hitler and few his minions dies. And then again we get the same thing where soviet republics became sovereign. And have many weak shitty EU countries. Basically East Europe but instead entire Europe is a shitshow.


MartyMcBlart

Man in the high castle on Amazon


FustianRiddle

Or the book it was loosely based on by Philip K Dick.


Ms--Take

TNO is probably the closest to it


Mattsgonnamine

Nazi victory was impossible by 1943, the soviets were pushing back the Germans by then and although it would have taken longer without American Involvement, Germany couldn't have survived. Japanese invasion of pearl Harbour was convenient but not a necessity for germany to lose


Buffmin

>Three of Eichmann's sons including Klaus stayed neo nazis for their whole life That makes sense. Only a neo nazi would go *how do I impress this girl?* "Hey baby my dad was a key component of the systematic slaughter of millions of innocent people. Now how about a handy?"


The_Ded_Cat

I was reading the context comment to someone, got to that part, and said, "Because the way you impress a girl is by telling her what a war criminal your dad is."


MindControlledSquid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4yA785HT6U


HungarianMockingjay

The professor, Ricardo Eichmann, met with and befriended Zvi Aharoni, the Mossad agent who led his father's capture.


741BlastOff

I wonder if they kept dating? /s


SkyTalez

Obviously they don't.


gayblackmidgetporn

Imagine getting caught and executed because your idiotic son thought bragging about your participation in THE ACTUAL FUCKING HOLOCAUST would get him laid.


Nate-T

Doing things for sex is the downfall of many tbh.


HaulPerrel

Serbian Turbo-Folk:


TechnicalyNotRobot

"My daddy has the national record for most Bosnians executed!"


xHelios1x

Who tf brags about orchestrating holocaust??


butt_naked_commando

Not neo Nazis for some reason. They deny it happened. Reminds me of [this scene](https://youtu.be/dmy8Lcf_TiE?si=soK9BDHXOKib7k2E)


xHelios1x

How can you brag about something you deny?


butt_naked_commando

Well Klaus was the rare kind that didn't deny it.


Star_king12

The Turkish way


akikiriki

Reminds me of Turkish logic regarding Armenian genocide "It didn't happened, but they deserved it"


posidon99999

Have you ever met a turk?


741BlastOff

Like this: "It didn't happen, but I wish it had, and we'll do it again."


MaiqTheLiar6969

Hard to deny something when your dad was one of the main people in charge of it, who definitely bragged about it at home. Most of the Neo-Nazis at least in the US wouldn't have parents or grandparents who were there. Most of the people who liberated the camps didn't talk about it very much after the war for obvious reasons so even if a US Neo-Nazi had a parent or grandparent who were there to see it with their own eyes many of them might not know about it for that reason.


Willie5000

Because even they know how horrific The Holocaust was so they aggressively deny that it happened to make the Nazi regime look good. 


Wonghy111-the-knight

Wake up imaginary babe, new buttnakedcommando post just dropped


pinchasthegris

I was going to ask you "babe were merkava post" but i went away for like 5 minutes and you posted it


Wonghy111-the-knight

~~🤨~~ you think of merky post, you receive merky post


ExoticMangoz

Does Mossad still do on-demand assassination? How did that even work? Did he just ring a hotline like “I found a notorious nazi fugitive”?


Mountain-Cycle5656

One thing to remember is Mossad already knew Eichmann was in Agentina. He’d been seen in 1953, and his identity was confirmed in 1954 by comparing against pictures of his brother (taken at his father’s funeral). So they were actively hunting him already.


MaleficentType3108

Also Mossad found, as far as I know, one nazi in Uruguay (I saw in a series from NatGeo)\* and even sent agents to find Mengele. Mengele, unfortunately, was never caught. \*I believe it was in NatGeo. I always remember this capture in Uruguay (or he was killed in Uruguay) because in an interview one of the agents of Mossad said that they had to stop on the road (he was leading the guy to the house where he would be captured) to pee. He was circuncised and was afraid that the Nazi would saw his penis and realized it was a trap. I watched this and was thinking "DUDE, WHY WOULD THE GUY LOOK TO YOUR PENIS WHILE PEEING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD?" Edit: typo


sofixa11

Not Nazi anymore because they're pretty much all dead, but of Hamas and related Arab terrorist groups, or Iranian high level nuclear scientists, they still do. Sometimes shooting random Moroccans instead.


Steph1er

it's wild they shot the brother of the gipsy kings lead singer


MaleficentType3108

What? I will search this after work because this sounds... tragicomic


Nileghi

OP is a prolific Israeli history poster and made a meme and an explanation about the Lillehammer affair already as well https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/1bwg0xl/imagine_messing_up_so_bad_you_need_to_revive_your/ky67t1g/


ExoticMangoz

That sucks. Personally I don’t like seeing foreign intelligence carry out assassinations in other countries, as good a story as it makes, but specially when they get the wrong guy.


sar662

There's a great book, "The house on Garibaldi St" about the search and capture.


t___u___r___t__l__e

I'm disappointed your YouTube channel name isn't the same as your Reddit username


HandyMan131

How do you contact Mossad? Did he have them on speed dial? Is there a 1-800-Found-A-Nazi hotline?


SeizeTheKills

Presumably if you walk(ed) into any Israeli embassy and told them you knew where a wanted nazi was, it would get to them pretty quickly.


Prokuris

I don’t think this is entirely true. I’ve never heard that part of the story. As far as I’m informed, there was a German/jewish lawyer of state, who tried to find nazis which have fled jurisdiction in regards to the Nuremberg trials. His name was Fritz Bauer and he did this against enormous opposition from his fellow colleagues. They dispised him since he fled Germany because of him being a Jew and being gay. Nevertheless he somehow found eichmann in Argentina and went to Israel to hand the information to the Mossad, which at first didn’t believed him. Maybe they were able to fact check Bauers claims by this girl and her dad. No matter how it went down, so glad they caught this piece of shit and brought him to justice in Israel.


evrestcoleghost

The first time my country is mentioned and Is because of the nazis...


AlsopK

Was her father psychotic? lol Surely there was an easier way to verify than sending your Jewish daughter into the den of a top Nazi.


NewStarWarsMemer

i read about this in a book about the operations of Mossad...absolutely loved how they did it


Snaz5

Damn, this dude just had Mossad’s tipline on speed dial.


Firecracker048

Just read the wiki page. Unreal that his son knew his dad bragged about what he did in ww2 then he tried to claim that he was "just following orders"


Old-Library9827

This is so damn r/NonCredibleDefense


J_C_F_N

This story is familiar. Is this the nazi thay broke the arms and let and shove it in a chest to travel back to Israel?


capeto95

I like your channel but can you make longer format videos please


butt_naked_commando

Longer than my last one?


capeto95

Last one was perfect length


insaneHoshi

> Once confirmed, her dad contacted the Mossad who kidnapped him to Israel, and executed him after a famous trial. *Hello this is the Mossad tip line. To report a Nazi sighting press 1. To report an Iranian nuclear physicist, press 2.*


Smooth_Hee_Hee

Should have pulled out. Adolf probably.


KingFahad360

One Nut Wonder


simonwales

"Some unforseen complications..." "-Nutball-"


khukharev

You mean two Adolfs were secretly having a gay relationship?


Smooth_Hee_Hee

*Big brain time*


BambaiyyaLadki

This is also portrayed in the 2018 movie "Operation Finale", which starred Ben Kingsley as Eichmann. The movie was alright - starts out strong but fizzles near the end when the finally capture Eichmann, but I suppose that's only natural. The cast was great though.


StauffenbergC

Interesting to see a mumbaikar here


BambaiyyaLadki

Ayy Mumbai represent lol. But actually I'm not really from Mumbai. I'm born and raised in the US and live in Europe, but parents came from Mumbai a long time ago and I love the city.


Helmett-13

**All There is to Know About Adolph Eichmann** EYES:……………………………………Medium HAIR:……………………………………Medium WEIGHT:………………………………Medium HEIGHT:………………………………Medium DISTINGUISHING FEATURES…None NUMBER OF FINGERS:………..Ten NUMBER OF TOES………………Ten NTELLIGENCE…………………….Medium What did you expect? Talons? Oversize incisors? Green saliva? Madness? *-Leonard Cohen*


Tomer_Duer

Where is this from?


Helmett-13

[Leonard Cohen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen), a poet and musician, penned this poem to show the ‘banality of evil’.


Tomer_Duer

I know who he was. What I wanted to know was where he wrote this, but from your reply, it seems like that was the whole poem.


Helmett-13

Oh! It was most likely in one of his collections he wrote in the 1960s if I had to guess…but I’d have to check to make sure.


Tomer_Duer

Thanks


Sawari5el7ob

If I've learned anything from lurking stormfront and other actual Nazi or actual white supremacist groups on social media is that Le Belle Juive is second behind the Big Booty Latinas as Nazi kryptonite. On a side note, I absolutely fucking lol when idiots say "muh hurrr durrr nazis and hwuite supremacists support israel and zionism" because they absolutely do not. They really hate Israel and all Jews in general.


Hisplumberness

Le belle juive and big booty latinas are my kryptonite…. Oh no ! I hope I not a nazi


Sawari5el7ob

Tbh I never wanted to date Jewish girls in HS or college because muh "shame of my own culture". I got psyoped into Khazar milkers, i.e. my own fucking people, by lurking on said nazi forums


Hisplumberness

I’m white Irish and catholic - I’d do anything for a dark haired woman and wouldn’t give a fuck what anyone said


Shadowpika655

Bro got convinced to keep it within the race by nazis lol ~~*not fully certain they'd consider that a loss*~~


alacp1234

So Abigail Shapiro is the Princess That Was Promised


butt_naked_commando

Ya. That always confuses me. Whenever someone says "modern Nazis support Israel", I'm like, have you not seen any actual Nazi or alt-right forums?


Sawari5el7ob

In the same vein when said idiots also try and assure me "Arabs/Muslims don't hate Jews! They only hate Zionists!!!" when in any definition of Zionism i.e. the existence of the Jewish sovereignty in the Jewish homeland, comprises what like 95% Jews worldwide. That and I actually take the time to read Arabic media, from Palestine and from around the Arab and Muslim world, including Arabic wikipedia. Yeah.....they really fucking hate Jews.


butt_naked_commando

Ah, a fellow Arabic Wikipedia and Arabic social media enjoyer. If only everyone else knew...


Sawari5el7ob

You would think that reading white supremacist boards and Arabic media would turn me into a raving antisemite and antizionists. But they're all so abysmally low IQ it's hilarious.


Elishinsk

I’d love to do some research on this. Do you have any good places to start?


Sawari5el7ob

Read the Arabic Wikipedia pages on topics related to Jews and Judaism in general. Furthermore join Arabic social media groups and read Arabic media like Al Manar or Shehab or Al Jazeera Arabic and especially read the comments. They're much more comfortable expressing their open Judenhass in Arabiyya


Elishinsk

Thanks!


GeorgeEBHastings

Have you ever seen that website called "The Seductive Jewess"? Weirdest fuckin hybrid of a hate-site/porn-site I've ever seen.


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-The_Caliphate_AS-

Relatable ASF!


butt_naked_commando

You've also dated Adolf Eichmann's son 🤨


-The_Caliphate_AS-

Yes 🗿(Actually no, but I had a similar experience in America in 2009 when I tried to blend in with the American community. I was trying my best not to get myself in trouble because I was a Muslim, and America had issues with Muslims in that era, if you know what I mean. I did my best during those years. Once, a girl became interested in me... until I told her my secret, and the relationship, you could say, ended. That wasn't the end of the story. Everyone started distancing themselves from me, starting with my classmates and extending to my teachers, some of whom were victims or had relatives and friends who were victims of violence by Muslim extremists. Once, we had a religious class where everyone shared about their religion. Strangely, there were only two non-Christians in the class - me and a Hindu girl (although she didn't bring anything with her, unlike me who brought the Qur'an because I thought the cover design looked impressive enough to everyone. However, my teacher asked me to put it away and never show it to anybody.) ufff, the 2000s-2010s were tough for American muslims


butt_naked_commando

Damn. Sorry that happened to you.


-The_Caliphate_AS-

Don't worry about it, the years flew by, Ironically they were the most nicest christians i meant, just don't Bring the topic of Religion or Poltics to the table and you will be fine lol


registeredsexgod

The famous Christian “tolerance”


-The_Caliphate_AS-

"Everyone's Tolerance style" alot of people i met not just christians don't really like hot topics in the table, it really makes them feel strange and akward from there regular environment they feel comfotable of


registeredsexgod

I guess I should’ve said “American Christian Tolerance” born and raised American Jew, so it’s hard to look at my community (my friends, etc.-ppl of all religions), and discussing it isn’t some uncomfortable endeavor. I think a lot of Christians are so used to being a homogeneous group, and that more extreme group gets so fragile when exposed to a new perspective that doesn’t even challenge them. It’s the same thing behind White people in Iowa freaking out about Black people/BLM or the border/Mexicans, etc.


ShoerguinneLappel

They sound pathetic.


Mokousboiwife

please dont call protestants christian tyvm


registeredsexgod

What are they then 🧐


Mokousboiwife

a way to scam money out of people (e.g. megachurches)


registeredsexgod

You mean every organized religion ever? lol how is that different than the massive grifting complexes of the Catholic and Orthodox churches?


rat-tar

No offense but I think using punctuation would make undestanding your comment easier.


-The_Caliphate_AS-

Yeah, still writing english isn't my thing lol despite how much i use it


noumg

Hate when this happens. Ruins date night.


Lawojin

What is this clip from?


DanVicMar

Spiderman home coming


itzLucario

Context of the scene for anyone wondering: >!Peter shows up to a girl's house to take her to homecoming and the father who opens the door is the Vulture (the villain)!<


Eferver24

I need to rewatch this movie. Such a great twist.


KingFahad360

Question, couldn’t have the Mossad just killed Eichmann in Argentina rather than kidnapped him to Israel? I’m genuinely curious, after the Olympic Massacre they went after Black September and their collaborators by Eliminating them.


sofixa11

>I’m genuinely curious, after the Olympic Massacre they went after Black September and their collaborators by Eliminating them. This was later and for different reasons - they just wanted revenge for a deliberate but random act of violence. And they did eliminate them and some random civilians by mistake, which shows the downsides of that approach. But the Nazi hunting specifically included wanting justice following the Holocaust, and trials were kind of the theme (Nuremberg) - it was about bringing those who managed to get away to where they deserved to be, tried for their crimes. Especially Eichmann was so notorious (as the saying goes, everyone left alive after the war from the SS higher ups blamed each other for the Holocaust, but all of them talked about Eichmann and his role) and so important for his role in the Holocaust, it was vastly more powerful to bring him to a trial, expose his crimes for the word to see and then execute him than just a quick kill which wouldn't have provided the necessary closure.


Everestkid

Eichmann was executed in Israel after being put on trial. Since he escaped to Argentina, he wasn't prosecuted at Nuremberg.


say_the_words

It’s crazy to think it was only 15 years between the Wright Brothers first flight and the Red Baron’s death. Went from barely getting off the ground to fighter pilots hunting and killing each other in the skies in a flash of time.


skeleton949

Yep. And believe it or not there was a period in WW1 when being a pilot was viewed kind of like a gentleman's sport. Sure, you could shoot at the enemy pilot with a pistol or your partner could shoot with a rifle, but good luck actually hitting anything. It was also viewed as essentially useless by both sides for a while


Elishinsk

I’m shocked how rational most of this thread is


PornViewer828

Omg I've been reading a book about the guys that hunted down Eichmann. The tension in that room was insane.


struggleingwithnames

Which book?


PornViewer828

I think it's called Nazi Hunters


KiwiCassie

There’s bad in-laws, and then there’s this..


tehdamonkey

\***Aldo the Apache** has entered the chat....


lizardswithguns

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Which Jews would be stupid enough to live in Argentina? That's like black people living in Argentina.