Eichmann: The Controversy of Justice

Unpacking Israeli History

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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You would have thought that bringing Nazis to justice would have been something the world could agree on, but the Mossad’s capture of the infamous Nazi Adolf Eichmann prompted a fiery international debate that proved otherwise. Noam Weissman explores the truth about the stranger-than-fiction capture of one of the architects of the Final Solution and debates the ethical and moral questions raised by Eichmann’s trial and subsequent execution by the State of Israel. ~~~~ The Unpacking Israeli History Podcast series is sponsored by Andrea and Larry Gill This episode is sponsored by Liz and Moshe Naiman ~~~~ Learn more about Unpacked: https://jewishunpacked.com/about/ Visit Unpacked on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/unpacked Teaching about this topic? Check out our relevant educator resources here https://unpacked.education/video/the-full-story-behind-operation-finale/ ~~~~ Sources: http://www.archives.gov.il/en/chapter/behind-scenes-eichmann-trial/ https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/norman-podhoretz/hannah-arendt-on-eichmanna-study-in-the-perversity-of-brilliance/ https://www.haaretz.com/the-jew-who-tried-to-protect-eichmann-1.5305074?utm_campaign=Media%20Lab%20V2&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_hpJD794ZD7zoxMBNqC2qPcqNG-wNHy3ICQYmUAwQescZas-uuSHA1r61vtgvHFbvpOiM9 http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/biographies/eichmann-biography.htm https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/eichmann/operation_eichmann.asp http://time.com/5377670/operation-finale-adolf-eichmann-trial/ https://www.haaretz.com/the-jew-who-tried-to-protect-eichmann-1.5305074 https://www.haaretz.com/the-jew-who-tried-to-protect-eichmann-1.5305074 http://jcpa.org/article/the-eichmann-trial-and-american-jewry-a-reassessment/ https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/eichmann/awareness_of_the_holocaust.asp https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jewish-history-and-thought/why-do-hannah-arendts-ideas-about-evil-and-the-holocaust-still-matter/ https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2018/08/was-adolf-eichmann-a-mediocrity-or-a-monster/ https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2014/marchapril/feature/the-trial-hannah-arendt https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/hannah-arendt-on-eichmanna-study-in-the-perversity-of-brilliance/ ~~~~ Unpacked is a division of OpenDor Media

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Norm Weisman, and you're listening to unpacking Israeli history,
0:04.0	the podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense,
0:07.6	historically fascinating, and confusing events in Israeli history.
0:12.0	All that in just about 20 minutes. Yala, let's do this. We the people of Israel are people in Israel.
0:25.0	We, the people of Israel, are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our neighbors without any preconditions.
0:36.0	There are people in Israel elsewhere say it's impossible to make peace within the Arabs and Israel of the Jewish people.
0:45.0	I think they're on.
0:47.0	Six million.
0:50.0	This number has become synonymous with the most heinous six-year period in history, the Holocaust.
0:56.0	Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
1:00.0	Have you ever thought about how many of these Nazis were ever brought to justice?
1:04.7	The number is shockingly minuscule, something in the range of 5 to 10 percent,
1:10.1	and some even say way less than that.
1:13.0	Today we're diving into the story that Adolf Eichmann, an infamous Nazi who fled Europe after World War II in an attempt to escape justice.
1:22.0	We're going into detail and how the Mossad tracked him down and
1:25.8	captured him, put him on trial and his eventual execution in Israel. The legacy of
1:31.5	this event in Israeli history is far-reaching and it raises legal questions and ethical
1:36.7	debates and has had a long-term impact on the identity of the young state of Israel.
1:41.8	Today we're going to get into all of that.
1:45.0	I want to quickly pose one question to think about throughout this episode.
1:49.0	Whose responsibility do you think it was to bring justice and hold Nazis accountable?
1:55.6	Germany, Israel, the United Nations, or someone else?
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