The Story Behind the Hunt for Adolf Eichmann
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2021
- The incredible details of the cat-and-mouse game between war criminal Adolf Eichmann and those who spent years chasing him seem like they could be ripped from the pages of a Hollywood script. The decades-long hunt for Eichmann is among the most infamous fugitive pursuits in history. Eichmann managed to evade capture until 1960, when Israeli agents seized him in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Eichmann was quickly smuggled out of the country -- unbeknownst to Argentine authorities.
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Interesting fact: The Mossad agents that tackled Eichmann to the ground wore gloves while doing it because they said they felt shame in directly touching what they said was pure evil, not a human(they themselves lost loved ones in the holocaust).
I'm Jewish, not 100% on this but I think that has some basis in Jewish theology/religious teachings. IE not touching evil things, dead bodies, idols, etc.
Don't know if that's what motivated the agents but maybe.
Bruh, imagine being such a monumental piece of crap that soldiers have to wear gloves to avoid getting contaminated by your shittiness.
Could be true.
Oh come on what BS !
According to Mark Felton, he chose the alias "Otto Eckmann" because if someone recognized him and called him by his real name, it would sound similar enough to this alias that an unsuspecting American listener wouldn't catch on.
Based on how the narrator pronounces the German names in the video that is very likely true
Another Mark Felton listener, you’re a cultured sir *tips hat
Big fan of Mark Felton's video and audio series.
Love Mark’s videos.
@@elgritton I love a lot of his videos but the fact that he plagiurised a few videos leaves a sour taste in my mouth...
What are the odds for a Holocaust survivor making out of the concentration camp, moving to Argentina as a war refugee and becoming a neighbor with a Nazi war criminal
Argentina is the country with the 7th biggest jewish population and 31st in total population, so, not very low odds.
I wonder if there is a movie about this, other than the trial movie with Judy Garland.
Tv show am I right
Very High. Argentina is Full of Nazis. USA is Full of Communists. The World is truly insane
@@paullisanti8673 "USA is Full of Communists." There is no Soviet spy in the USA that has been captured in Red Scare. Your unproven conspiracy theory have no evidence whatsoever. Give me list of name.
Interesting fact: Eichmann’s boss Gestapo chief and spy master Heinrich Müller was never found after the war. To this day, no one knows his true fate.
Argentina babyyyy
@@cortarmstrong8768 ?
@@mahmudanoorchaity718 the Catholic church helped a lot of nazis escape to Argentina and other South American countries.
@@ScarlettKitsune wow, thanks for the info!
@@cortarmstrong8768 si señorrrr
I can't believe that he (and so many other people) did so much evil and still had the audacity to pretend as if nothing happened. Absolutely disgusting. I hope he gets what he rightfully deserves.
Adolf Eichmann did meet justice in the end. He fled to South America after the war but was captured in 1960. He was brought to trial in Israel in 1961, was convicted of war crimes and hanged in 1962. Yes indeed, he met justice at the end of a rope.
they just fallowed the rules of their country
@@FriggOff361 THESE evildoers knew exactly what they were doing. That's not an excuse. God exists and punishes evildoers. Do you really think Eichmann who killed millions is in the same place as mother Teresa who fed millions of orphans ⁉️
@@eltorolocowey they all dead gone to dust vanish like a sleep but with no dream and never wake up .they all evil yes (not mother something who fed milions of hungry people tho) but god isnt real dont put religion on this (sorry if i sound rude just got bad taste from religious people who shove religion into everything)
@@eltorolocowey No....may he rot in the underworld for eternity
Bet Eichmann never knew that saying of, “loose lips sink ships”.
Dude, you can go down the rabbit hole when it comes to the hunt for nazi war criminals. You should do more videos on them.
The US government let many nazi criminals into the US to be in the organization that later became the CIA. There is an array of books about this that go into detail, including the book Blowback.
If it’s more videos on hunting nazi war criminals type in the search bar nazi hunters and you will find some there
Had to watch this three times to catch all the twists and turns.
So many names
@@elleemann so many players!
Get a life
Yeah, and the dreadful American happy-like articulation. All a bit of fun!
@@rossbrown6641 How many cats do you live with?
As an Israeli (a 4th generation of a holocaust survivor, and a long fan of the channel) who knows very well about The Holocaust the the man who "hunted" him and the trial. I am sincerely thanking you all (the weird history RUclips channel and community) for doing and being interested in this video and subject. I will tell everybody I know to like the video
and as a show of thank here is some facts of the "hunt" and trial:
1. When the Mosad agents put him in the car and investigated him, he said "I knew one day you will catch me" in germen (I may be wrong about the language)
2. when he was arrested and impressed he was surprisingly calm talkative and even friendly! that in an interview at list two guards said: he was so calm and talkative to us that although we tried to remind ourselves of the thing he had done we started as seeing him as less of a monster and more of a person." (NOT the actual testimony but my best try to translate it from Hebrew) but it is widely believed that he acted like this for the trial because of all the horrible things he bragged about (as you summarized pretty well) and because of when he was about to hang he shouted "long live Germany! long live Austria! long live Argentine! I will never forget you!" (it is not exactly what he said because I translated it from an summery of the event in Hebrew by me which probably translated it from Germen)
by the way it is quit funny to hear you and practically anybody who doesn't know Hebrew try to pronounce Jewish names. by the way for some people (not anyone who I noticed comments) for what I know Hebrew isn't at all related to bear or brewing the real name of the language is Ivrit the (first i is pronounced E like the name of the letter)
The real hero of the operation seems to be Silvia since she put herself in the lion’s den in order to help Mossad capture Eichmann. Is it true that they tortured her to track down the safe house and that they left just in time? Nothing in wikipedia about it
Ricardo klement was a hero.. His unfulfilled dreams will soon come true. Mark my words
@@Americanhonkee 🤡
I have read about his capture, but I had no idea how many times he evaded justice! Great video!
I'm from israel and the eichmann trial is something we learn in school because it's so unique and really change the nation. My favorite part is that it actually erased victim blame as a form of defense in court, no longer one could say "they know the sighs and did nothing"
@No One's Innocent what. No.
@No One's Innocent No he didn't study in Islamic school
@No One's Innocent It’s okay to kidnap major Nazi figures in order to bring them to trials. If you think otherwise then there’s something wrong with you.
Wow! Early for weird history. That's history.
🤣 🤣
@L Train45 lol
Could you imagine the fear he felt being in the hands of people whom he designed the ethnic cleansing of? Im glad he got to feel that fear.
Me too.
@@devinromans9553 Uhg, agreed! Insane, aweful... Actually, I don't think I can find the right word. But if they can't come to some kind of sense soon, then can burn in hell🔥
@@devinromans9553 you mean like the hundreds of nazi scientists smuggled into USA creating weapons used in nagasaki and hiroshema, continueing for decades,, dont be so naive
@@jainepal4844 mic drop.
@@devinromans9553 you’re not wrong to feel this way. I sometimes do too. Then I think about the eternity in hell they are in. God’s vengeance is the best. ,
Imagine the monster bragging about his hatred to neighbors whilst supposedly hiding out. He was his own henchman.
Weird how adept he was at fitting noose around his own neck.
I think you mean executioner.
Where was he bragging? He kept a low profile with a low class job
@Riss A Is it possible for you to be more obscure? (This is sarcasm btw. )
It was one of his sons that did the bragging
I found this to be a truly heartening story. Despite extreme efforts, this terrible criminal still failed to elude justice...in part because of his own hubris!
"It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."
--Albert Einstein
This felt profound until i read it a few more times.
That caper has the essence of a James Bond movie plot.
Operation Finale is an interesting dramatized version of these events. I’d say it’s worth a watch! You can feel the tension just like in the movie Argo
You should do 20 or 30 vids on catholic church helping nazis
He should do one on Dietrich Bonhoeffer too though. An incredibly courageous young church preacher who resisted Hitler all the way to his execution.
They should also do one on Clemens August Graf Von Galen, Bishop of Munster, who was a staunch anti-Nazi by protesting against Nazi euthanasia, denounced Gestapo lawlessness and the persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany. Also look up Edith Stein, Claus Von Stauffenberg, Erich Klausener, Bishop Konrad Von Preysing and Engelmar Unzeitig - all anti Nazi Catholics who opposed Hitler. Also, read about the Priesterblock, or the "Priest Barracks of the Dachau Concentration Camp" where they housed incarcerated clergy who opposed the Nazi Regime.
Check out mark Felton production -Rat lines
Check this ruclips.net/video/zHk5LN5Dpro/видео.html
Just finished watching the documentary The Devil Next Door on Netflix… this is fascinating.
Is that about this story? I was surprised this wasn't made into a movie. What a story!
Watch operation finale..
@@beth2398 it’s actually about the story of John Demanjuk (Not sure how to spell his name), and how he was tried for being Ivan the Terrible. Quite interesting!
@@beth2398 there was a movie in 1979 about this called House on Garibaldi Street. The book by the same name came out in 1975.
this answered a lot of questions left unanswered by other documentaries, thanks
You have the best history voice over!!
i want this channel to talk about prince philip so bad :( ok thats my request for next video 🐙🐙
Watching this from Argentina, this is a bit weird. But I wanted to congratulate you on the amazing footage you manage to put together from this vast country of ours, from those long gone decades. Just superb. Thanks for yet another great short documentary.
Viva Argentina! Saludos amigos.
@@desertdragon2397 Saludos para ti también!
It is very weird especially if u are a nazi's descendant living in Argentina
Even weirder if you've been to what used to be his house
@@P3trarch That's insane! Please tell us more, this part of our history is so shrouded in secrecy (or at least I can't find much openly discussed) that for the most part we are all in the dark, apart from what is openly known but still surface level...
I talked to a ww2 vet named Norman here in wamego and he was a spy who had a whole presentation with classified old documents about catching a war criminal like this and the best story ever leading up to him finally calling the German by his real name after years of thinking he’d gotten away with it. Gives me goosebumps the way he told it ♥️♥️♥️ blessings to the veterans
I am so glad that most of these devils were caught. And even if they escaped, nobody escapes God. Can you imagine how God feels about these devils?
The only lives that truly matter are those who respect the lives of others
If someone has an issue with this, they’re the problem.
Extremely well put.
Like Palestinians and Israelis?
@@user-otzlixr if you want to take it very literally it would be the government because you can get the death penalty for not respecting the lives of others depending on your definition of what it means... clearly if they're going to execute you they don't think your life matters so the government.....
@@user-otzlixr generally, if you orchestrate or take large roles in a genocide, you fall on the "don't respect human life" side of things.
Do more of these! Very interesting love you to see more.
Excellent, concise history. You covered a lot of history in a short space, and did it well. Bravo!
You got Issar Harel's picture mixed up. The picture at 7:12 is Harel, not Yoel Goren.
Wow you know your stuff, just saying I'm not real good on stuff like this it had so many twists and turns that I felt like I was on a rabbit hunt. (I don't hunt rabbits). But ya good job. 🧐
@@pattycake8272 My degree is in history and I wrote a research paper on this very subject lol.
@@salag13 used your knowledge to school us, A+.
@@salag13 mad respect my dude/girl/whatever you prefer. i've only ever attended jewish schools and even _i_ wouldn't have caught that one 🤭
@@yourbootyholeisyourbeautyhole Dude, and thank you. :)
Life is simple. See Weird History new video notification, I click.
Great upload! Thanks!
Yay iam early. I really love this narrator. He makes the channel so much better.
No matter how long it takes, justice will always prevail.
Am I the only one what always tries to guess what he's gonna say after: "and let us know what other...."?
Ok so I know it would have been satisfying to “get him” when they got many others… But… It’s also kinda satisfying to know how terrified he had to of been during his years changing his whole identity and running from the choices he made.. Kind of pleasing to know he probably felt very little peace.
Ehh, you get used to it after about a year. Still gotta be careful wherever you go, just not as much anxiety as time passes. Going by my own experience here
Love your videos bro
Thank you for this video ! 😊🌹
Great video today keep it up your doing amazing job
At 09:40 You mention Rafael Eitan as the one that was in charge of the operation and gathering the agents but you put the pictures of ANOTHER Rafi Eitan. They both have the same name but the one on the picture is known as the Israeli Chief of Staff at the early eighties.. Love your channel, one of the best out there!
The horrors of all this, so fascinating
Do you no why,.the.jew, have.wsys.been hated,.?
If you're talking about the Mossad do you think you could cover Operation Entebbe? That was a pretty insane rescue mission.
I remember hearing about this on the radio as a kid (I was 10) and not really understanding. Later, I learned it had been part of the inspiration for Vonnegut's "Mother Night."
I finally learned what that deep space 9 episode was based off of. Might have to give that a rewatch.
You mean Duet? With the Cardassian book keeper? I don't really think it's inspired by Eichmann.
@@e8ghtmileshigh1 The occupation in general is a pretty apples to apples comparison. I think the initial premise of the episode is based of prosecuting's nazi's and it evolved a lot from there.
I'd love a video on Operation Valkerie and the avoidable downfalls
Pretty cool to hear your take on Black Bart and Wellsfargo.
I like it when these videos end on a happy note 🙂
I wish Weird History would put their resources in the description.
What the hell? Fritz Bauer was the judge involved in this situation, Erich "Gasmeister" Bauer was the executioner at a Nazi extermination camp. I had to watch that multiple times to assure myself I wasn't just seeing things, that's a hell of a person to confuse someone else for lol
Hello Weird History people.
Have you ever done a video about the Zodiac Killer? Never been caught as far as I know. No closure. Intriguing though.
Keep up the great work Weird History.
Dude the way you narrate is so on point. I love bro. When are you revealing your face? 😂
Great doc. Just a minor correction: 1960 was the 150th anniversary of the 1810's "May Revolution", not the Argentine Independence. The latter took place in 1916.
You got the wrong Rafi Eitan in the picture...
Also the wrong picture of Yoel Goren (the one used was of Isser Harel), and David Ben-Gurion at the end was also incorrect.
It's impressive to chase down war crime criminals while planning future war crimes yourself. These guys were hard working.
Oh come off it
The Holocaust literally cannot be compared to anything else
@@curiodyssey3867 No one is comparing it, we just think it's weird how terrible things were done to certain people so they then turn around and do bad things to others.
pretty sure they’re referring to the Israeli Government and all the drama happening between them and Palestine…… buttttt i could be wrong 🤣
not taking any sides but the conflict between the two countries does go this far back so the original comment has SOME truth to it….
Thanks for this video... informative as always! 👍🏼 Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" quote is resonant even today.
That trial looked scary too. Creepy
The picture you used for Karl liebel is actually Karl holz. He was the commander of nurnbergs defense shortly before the end of the war and was killed by US forces after being given multiples chances to surrender.
@WeirdHistory why did you edit the insignia off of his visor for the video preview picture?
"The fish didn't get caught until it opened its mouth"....He would be still alive today if he had the wisdom to follow that proverb.
I don’t think someone can live more than 120 years he would be too old
Maybe lived out his life with his family in Argentina, probably not still alive today. He was 56 when he was executed in 1962. He’d be 115 today.
Perfect timing for my morning deuce.
Yeppers. Me 2. 😉 Enjoy your day.
Nice
Operation Finale is a great movie on this story
Finally a good video
How sad it took so long for him to be held accountable. I now wonder what happened to his family
Most of Adolf Eichmans sons denied their fathers role in the holocaust and remained anti Semitic for the rest of their lives including Klaus Eichman probably because Adolf Eichman passed his anti Semitic beliefs towards Jewish people onto them. However only Adolf Eichmans youngest son accepts his fathers role in the holocaust and he is still alive today along with one of his older brothers while Klaus Eichman and his other brother have been dead for many years.
@@jessicafournerat3804 wow still alive! Thank you for sharing
Would be cool if u did something on Israeli raid on Entebbe....
Thank you
You need not worry my friends about such things. Hell is for people just like this man.
Please do a video of Alois Brunner.
Nice
Good historical documentary , a small comment for the record : actually the picture in this documentary belongs to a former IDF chief of Staff Major General Rafi " RAFUL" Eitan instead of Rafi Eitan the MOSAD agent who captured ADOLF EICHMANN ( IMACH SHMO) in Buenos Aires .
Can you please make a video on Hitler's and his inner circles personal life, food habits, daily routine I can't find any good videos on the subject
Lothar was in prison for suspicion of espionage, had only lost one eye before developing cataracts and fled Germany.
Utterly confusing choice of words there mate...
You should do Ma Barker and the Barker Gang
Thx 🙏
U are quick! Being (I think ) old, it's going to take me about 5 re-runs! Complicated! But sooooo interesting!
To everyone watching this video, please feel free to donate to the Simon Weisenthal Center in Los Angeles. They have Weisenthal’s office in there on exhibit, and they do a lot of good things.
Do a video on Thomas Jefferson for fourth of July
Please do a search about Benjamin Banneker’s letter to Thomas Jefferson regarding July 4 1792. 🤔
It isn’t weird although it is notably damned important in relation to July 4th.
8:01 I think you made a mistake in the name tag at this timestamp. The name is Fritz Bauer and he was NOT a nazi, the opposite. He hunted nazis as an Attorney General during the 50ies and 60ies and if I remember correctly he was persecuted and fled Germany during the war.
To escape the horrors of the hollo cost and then later find out your daughter is dating the son of the monster responsible. Truth is stranger than fiction!
The what?
HOLOCAUST !!
Imagine how Lothar Herman must have felt when he found out that his daughter was dating the son of one of the main Nazis behind the Holocaust and that one of his neighbors was personally responsible for the Holocaust. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wanted to personally confront Eichman and punish him for his crimes.
I would love to see more videos on the post-WW2 Nazi hunters. fascinating stuff.
I don't know if there's a movie about this but I will surely watch it to see if done right.
The Glass Booth 1975
The "banality of evil" also applied to the amount of ridiculous bureaucracy they went through just to catch him.
I Absolutely loved the video 😍
butt as a German i had to laugh att you prognostications of the German names 😂
Absolutely love your Chanel Keep up the great work 💪🏼😁👍🏻
LOLOLOL!!..."prognostications"??
Can you do a video about Simon Weaselthal? I know it's spelled wrong sorry.
Wiesenthal*. Indeed, they should make a video about him.
You should do a video on the Canadian residential schools
The large majority of the German WW2 killers were never punished, if they survived the war. Left a terrible mark on the occupying forces: GB, France, Soviet and the US
Do Mio Honda next
Crime against humanity is always present in a war....
It amazes me that Argentina did this for those people. What was that country thinking at that time?
It was semi dictatorial regime itself. There were also large populations of ethnic Germans and Germans who had migrated and settled there since late 19th century, so they supported other Germans despite being nazis. If you think about it, with Europe and North America against them, and the rest of the world full of their colonies/allies, South America was the only region these fugitives could go to.
grazie
"Eichmann acted like a meek pencil pusher" the narrator has great sense of humor..lol
Should do a video on the one that got away - Josef Mengele.
You have a mistake- the photo of "Ben gurion" is of Golda Meir. a different PM of Israel.
How did the blind dude read the paper and write the judge a letter?
Maybe he was able to get the paper in Braille, or had someone close read it to him?
I don’t know when it was invented but there are/were typewriters with Braille keys
“HEYY WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU LITTLE EICHMANN?”
Thanx Perón. As always, in the right side of history. (Insert pacepalm meme here)
You got the wrong photo at 13:20🙈 that's Golda Meir, not David ben Gurion. She became prime minister a decade later.
Could you do the Nüremberg Trials?
thanks.
Would be cool of you guys could find out all you can about DB Cooper pls
My only criticism here is that of a Clevelander. Around 2:14 you say "other criminals claimed to be slain under questionable circumstances" and then show a picture of the Devil of Cleveland. John Demjanjuk was NOT Ivan the Terrible. Ivan the Terrible WAS murdered. Demjanjuk was convicted for working at a DIFFERENT death camp at his second trial. Plus that whole thing played out waaaaaay after Eichmann's trial.
Everyone go watch Operation Finale, Ben Kingsley played a really good Eichmann. He was also Isak Stern in schindlers list.