“I am not and I have never been an antisemite,” said German SS officer Adolph Eichmann in Israel in 1960 to his government interrogator, Avner W. Less, the Chief Inspector for the Israel Police Department.

Eichmann’s chief responsibility under the Nazi regime was to plan and carry out logistics for mass deportations of Jews and Roma to concentration work and death camps.

SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) Adolf Eichmann, head of office Referat IV B4 of the German Gestapo, collaborated with Hungarian authorities to send approximately 600,000 Jews of Hungary (and areas of Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia) to their deaths at Auschwitz and other camps. Eichmann eventually gained control of all forced Jewish emigration from Nazi-controlled areas.

The Nazis first loaded people into transport vans used to suffocate prisoners by connecting hoses in which carbon dioxide was pumped. Since high Nazi officials saw this method as inefficient, officials had ordered the construction of gas chambers at some of the German concentration camps with the use of highly toxic Zyklon B.

It was first used at Auschwitz concentration camp outside Warsaw, Poland on 3 September 1941 to kill a group of 600 Soviet prisoners of war and approximately 250 sick Polish prisoners. Though Eichmann personally did not visit the gas chambers, he was fully aware of their purposes.

The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations, known as Mossad, received reliable intelligence that the notorious chief architect of the extermination of European Jews and other groups targeted as subhuman (untermenschlich) had escaped Germany and was in hiding with his wife and four sons under an assumed identity in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion ordered Massad officers in 1960 to fly to Buenos Aires and secretly abduct and transport........

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