Evil must be punished.
61 years ago, in the prison of the city of Ramla, the execution of the only death sentence by a court decision in the State of Israel took place. Despite years of hiding and hoping to avoid arrest, one of the main organizers of the Holocaust caught up with just retribution. Currently, the issue of punishment for war crimes committed and continued to be committed by the Russians during the Russian-Ukrainian war is more relevant than ever. However, a separate episode of Adolf Eichmann from the great trial of Nazi war criminals gives Ukrainians confidence in the inevitability of retaliation against the occupiers.
Adolf Eichmann (German: Otto Adolf Eichmann) is a Nazi officer, Gestapo employee, head of the special Gestapo department IV-B-4, who was responsible for the “final solution of the Jewish question.” SS Obersturmbannführer Eichmann carried out the central management of all operations for the deportation of the Jews of Europe to the death camps, played an important role in the preparation of the Wannsee Conference (1942) and the implementation of its decisions regarding the total genocide of the Jews. He personally visited the death camps several times, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, and knew in detail the entire process of extermination.
After the capitulation of Germany, he hid outside the country. In 1948, Eichmann obtained a false Argentine passport in the name of Ricardo Clementa. In 1950, he arrived in Buenos Aires, later moved his family there. On May 13, 1960, he was captured by a group of agents of the Israeli political intelligence Mossad. Eichmann was secretly transported to Israel and handed over to the police. On April 11, 1961, a trial began in Jerusalem that lasted more than six months. The indictment consisted of 15 counts - Eichmann was accused of crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity, belonging to Nazi organizations (SS, SD, Gestapo). The crimes against the Jewish people included all kinds of persecution, including the arrest of millions of Jews, their concentration in certain places, their sending to death camps, murders, and confiscation of property. He was also accused of crimes against other nations: evicting millions of Poles, arresting and sending tens of thousands of Roma to death camps, etc. On December 15, 1961, Eichmann was found a war criminal, guilty of crimes against the Jewish people and against humanity, and sentenced to death. On the night of May 31 to June 1, 1962, Eichmann was hanged in the city prison of Ramla. After his execution, Eichmann's body was cremated and his ashes scattered in the neutral waters of the Mediterranean Sea outside Israeli territorial waters.
The fate of Nazi Eichmann also awaits the most ruthless war criminals, regardless of time and location. Evil must be punished and destroyed.
Dilfuza Hlushchenko