On this day 31 May
1962, Adolf Eichmann was hanged shortly before midnight on May 31, 1962, at a
prison in Ramla, Israel. His executioner was Shalom Nagar, an Israeli Jew of
Yemenite origin. Eichmann
allegedly refused a last meal, preferring instead a bottle of Carmel, a dry red
Israeli wine, consuming about half the bottle. He also refused to don the
traditional black hood for his execution.
Shortly after the execution,
Eichmann's body was cremated in a specially designed furnace, and a stretcher
on tracks was used to place the body into it. The next morning, June 1, his
ashes were scattered at sea over the Mediterranean, beyond the territorial
waters of Israel by an Israeli Navy patrol boat. This was to ensure that there
could be no future memorial and that no country would serve as his final
resting place.
Who
is Adolf Eichmann?
Adolf
Eichmann (March 19, 1906 – May 31, 1962) was a
German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant
Colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Because of his
organizational talents and ideological reliability, Eichmann was charged by Obergruppenführer (General) Reinhard
Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass
deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied
Eastern Europe. After the war, he fled to Argentina using a fraudulently
obtained laissez-passer issued by the International Red Cross. He lived in
Argentina under a false identity, working for Mercedes-Benz until 1960. He was
captured by Mossad operatives in Argentina and taken to Israel to face trial in
an Israeli court on 15 criminal charges, including crimes against humanity and
war crimes. He was found guilty and executed by hanging in 1962. He is the only
person to have been executed in Israel on conviction by a civilian court.
Quotes by Adolf Eichmann
Check
this link: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann
Clemency denied!
Moshe Landau (Hebrew: משה לנדוי, 29 April 1912 – 1
May 2011) was an Israeli jurist. He was the fifth President of the Supreme
Court of Israel. Landau was born in Danzig, Germany (modern Gdańsk, Poland) to
Dr. Isaac Landau and Betty née Eisenstädt. His father was a leading member of
the Jewish Community of Danzig In 1930 he finished high school in the Free City
of Danzig and in 1933 he graduated cum laude from the University of London
school of law. That year, he immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine. In
1937 he was admitted to the Bar of Palestine. In 1940 he was made judge in the
Magistrate's Court of Haifa and was appointed to the District Court in 1948.
Member of the International Court of Justice. Chairman of the World Zionist
Congress tribunal. Chairman of the advisory Commissions on reforming the
Israeli Land Law, criminal procedure and administrative tribunals. Chairman of
the Commission for recognition of righteous among the nations in Yad Vashem.
From 1956 to 1962 and from 1965 to 1966 he served as Chairman of the board of
directors of the Technion.
When the Eichmann trial
opened on April 11 1961 under the close scrutiny of the world's media, Landau
read out a 15-count indictment which included charges of "causing the
killing of millions of Jews", "torture", and placing "many
millions of Jews in living conditions that were calculated to bring about their
physical destruction". He and his fellow judges took pains to spell out
the basis of the court's claim to jurisdiction. The state of Israel, they
argued, represented all Jews: "To argue that there
is no connection is like cutting away a tree root and branch and saying to its
trunk: I have not hurt you."
Landau also dealt deftly
with Eichmann's claim that he had simply been following orders and had been but
a small cog in the Nazi machine. "A soldier, too,
must have a conscience," Landau declared.
On May 31 1962,
Israeli President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi turned down Adolf Eichmann's petition for
mercy. On the telegram that Eichmann's wife, Vera, sent in support of the
clemency, Ben-Zvi added in his handwriting a passage from the First Book of
Samuel: "As your sword bereaved women, so will
your mother be bereaved among women." (1 Samuel 15:33, Samuel's
words to Agag, king of the Amalekites). Eichmann was hanged a few minutes
before midnight on May 31, 1962, at a prison in Ramla, Israel. - Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (Hebrew: יצחק בן צבי, born 24
November 1884, died 23 April 1963) was a historian, Labor Zionist leader, the
second and longest-serving President of Israel.
Let us remember the 6 million Jews
who were killed during World War II. I am personally happy that Adolf Eichmann
was executed for his war crimes because if was allowed to keep his life, it
will be an insult to the 6 million Jews who were murdered because of the Nazis.
I hope that Israel will also bring back capital punishment for terrorists and
mass murderers.
Remember Ronald Reagan’s speech: I warned that there should be no place on Earth where
terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I
said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure
that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have. (Address to the Nation on the United States
Air Strike Against Libya April 14, 1986)
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