The passport used by notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann to enter Argentina in 1950 has been found by accident in an archive in Buenos Aires, a Holocaust museum said.
The passport, still in good condition, was issued by the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva to Eichmann, one of the main executors of Adolf Hitler’s “final solution” – the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War II.
A judge, Maria Servini de Cubria, stumbled upon the document in court archives. The passport has been handed over to the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires, which confirmed the discovery.
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The Red Cross were enablers of the Nazi’s YM’S. They helped them cover up their crimes against the Yidden during the war by writing Red Cross reports stating how great conditions were in the concentration camps. And after the war, they assisted the Nazi’s fleeing from prosecution escape to South America.
He had a nice ending,
Where could I get the video of his captured?
My recollection is that Eichmann YMS had an Austrian passport as he lived much of his useless life in Austria.
They should send the passport to Moshe Aryeh Friedman in Vienna to use to when he visits Teheran. He could then leave it there for Ahmadinejad and get an Islamic Republic of Iran passport (in the name of Eichmann YMS) in exchange.
another reason not to like or trust the red cross .
Burn it.
lipa – there is a dvd called ‘the jewish revenge’ i think- of the capturing of eichman – its done really well.
Is this documented about the Red cross or just rumor?
I agree with Yatzmich. And Joseph, what you are referring to is the inspectors of the International Red Cross visiting the Thieresenstadt during WWII. In their report, they state that the Jews are being well treated! And they also allowed parcels to be sent to inmates in Thieresenstadt!
The Germans YM covered up the atrocities to impress upon the Red Cross that everything was fine! They used to come to the camps to
inspect the conditions. Those phony Nazis YM fooled them into thinking that the Jews were well treated.
Nameless is correct. I visited Terezin, where my great-grandfather, Elias Fruend z’l, was killed. Our tour guide was a woman who had survived Terezin. The Nazis y’s’v took great pains to create a grand facade, complete with tiled bath-houses and other public fixtures. The Nazis y’s’v also orchestrated the production of a children’s play, to occur at the time the Red Cross visited. To the Red Cross, Terezin was a ghetto of people held against their will, but in tolerable conditions. I do not know how far the Red Cross would have had to scratch beneath the surface to see the truth, or whether they troubled themselves to make a surprise visit to see what truly transpired there.
The passport should be placed in Yad VaShem and kept as a reminder and as memory of what occurred. And, as a historical note, the Mossad’s capture of Eichmann in Argentina sparked international protest. Israel politely invited the world to shut their mouths, and after some diplomatic dancing at the UN, Israel and Argentina came to some understanding (which of course was mostly Israel telling Argentina and the rest of the world to bugger off and go to Hell).
Following a 14 week trial, Eichmann was convicted. Then-Israeli president Yitzchak Ben-Zvi quoted Shmuel I, 15:33, when Shmuel said to Agag, “As your sword bereaved women, so will your mother be bereaved among women.” Eichmann was hanged. His execution remains the only civil execution ever carried out by the State of Israel, which has a general policy of no death penalty. Eichmann’s body was cremated and his ashes were dumped in international waters of the Medeteranian Sea; this was intended to ensure that no country could provide a final resting place for the bastard.
The finding of the passport at this time is good; the truth must emerge, and the world must remember.
May G-d avenge the murders of our brethern, men, women, children, and infants, and restore the crown of dignity fully to our Nation.
telegrok:
I agree with your general point, but please watch your language on a public, yeshivish site.
ohvay,
I’ve read posts on this site with words like ‘gehenom’ and mamzor’ etc. Why is there a feeling that the second these words are translated into English, they suddenly become treif?,
Assuming it is true that his passport was found, I would make sure to have it on display for the world to see what double standard the Red Cross was from it’s inception till to this day.
ohvay – I did not mean to offend with my use of language, which in fact included words I rarely utter. With regard to my first mention of what we call gehinom, I paused, but concluded that when written with a capital ‘H’ it would be understood to convey the ‘place’ of geheinom, rather than a curse word used in other contexts. With regard to my use of the English word for mamzer (which, of course, in English strictly speaking means only a child born out of wedlock), I paused again, but could not find a better word. A mamzer Eichmann was not – in our yiddishe velt, that word has softened and is understood as less a child born of union for which kareis is imposed, and more as the mechanic who did the unnecessary repair, or the cabbie who took us home the long way. Such an affectionate term could not, should not, must not be ever used on a person like Eichmann. What other word? “Animal?” “Incarnation of evil?” To duhumanize the Nazis would be to, chas v’shalom, excuse them – we do not hold animals responsible for their actions. A dog that bites is poorly trained, but still a dog. A man, a human, a person who perpetrates the incomprehensible actions of the Nazis – that is terrifying, frightening, and for that a word that incoporates both his humanity and the reprehensible nature of his actions and being must be used.
does it have a stamp from the british govt for his six month visit to “palestine”???
when eichman was captured, he spoke with his captors a few words of hebrew. how did he know? because the nazi party sent him to “palestine” to have a full understanding of jews!!! they were thorough! he lived in a kibutz in the nahariyah area (nahariyah was always a yekke community.)
of course, that would be his austrian passport.
was he responsible for the murder of arlozoroff in tel aviv. always blamed on the “revisionists”, we now know he was murdered by the nazis near what became kikar malchei yisrael (now named changed for other reasons; the shabak does not want to release the details why) because arlozoroff’s old girlfriend married goebbels, nazi minister of propganda; she and her children died in hitler’s “bunker” at the end of the war. good riddance
The ICRC position on this issue is available on http://www.icrc.org/eng with links to other documents relating to WWII and the Holocaust:
The ICRC travel document recently exhibited in Argentina had never been publicly displayed before, though its existence was known and indeed had been publicized in 1999 by the ICRC itself in a press release. It is not a full-fledged identity document or passport but rather a temporary “laisser-passer” intended for refugees, displaced and stateless people and others who have no travel documents and are therefore unable to go either to their country of origin or residence or to another country willing to receive them.
These documents were created in 1945 to help tens of thousands of concentration camp survivors, former prisoners of war, deportees, forced labourers and other stranded civilians who had no valid travel documents. Many of them approached the ICRC for help in securing the papers they needed. Since then, ICRC travel documents have helped more than half a million people reach new homes. ICRC records show that more than 9,000 travel documents were issued between February 1945 and early 1946 alone. Almost all of them were for people caught up in the maelstrom of the immediate post-war period in Europe, without legal documents or proof of nationality and often desperate to start a new life elsewhere. The “laisser-passer” system exists to this day. In 2006, the ICRC issued more than 5,800 travel documents.
The ICRC has previously deplored the fact that Eichmann and other Nazi criminals misused its travel documents to cover their tracks. Writing in the International Herald Tribune on 10 March 1992, the then director of the organization’s Department of Principles and Law, Yves Sandoz, wrote: “These men [Barbie, Eichmann and Mengele] and their secret supporters took shameless advantage of a humanitarian service which benefited half a million people, mostly survivors of concentration camps and refugees from Eastern Europe.”
The document that has now appeared in Argentina is authentic. Adolf Eichmann obtained it after submitting a request to the ICRC in which he used a false name and a forged identity card. Neither during the immediate post-war period nor today does the ICRC have the means to verify the identity of applicants for travel documents. Such identity checks can be carried out only by the authorities of the countries to which they are travelling and which have accepted the ICRC’s travel documents.
The ICRC continues to open its archives to researchers interested in the organization’s work during the Second World War and its aftermath. While the ICRC has not archived copies of the travel documents themselves, it has retained records of the requests for them.
if some low level nazis YM’S slipped through – i’d accept their statements – but high level guys whom I am sure were recocnizable??? not to credible.