Aharoni, Zvi
(Israeli secret service, Mosad) , speaking German:
- "Suddenly he said very calmly, as if he were talking to himself: I have already given in to fate. Of course this was something very special for me. As he was German, he knew what it was about. This could only be Eichmann.
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Eichmann, Adolf
(member of National socialist Labor party ) , speaking German:
- "I disapprove of and regret the program of the German government against the Jewish people of those times.
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Wiesenthal, Simon
(Eichmann's chaser) , speaking German:
- "He didn’t allow photographs. He burst into anger and took the camera away from "delinquents" to tear the negative out of it. He was even ready to pay for the broken camera He knew that he would be hunted.
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Harel, Isser
(Chief of Mossad) , speaking Arabic:
- "From the very beginning our intention was not to kill him, but to capture him and take him to Israel for his trial.
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Aharoni, Zvi
(Israeli secret service, Mosad) , speaking German:
- "Twenty minutes before eight I was in the side-street where he used to come home every evening. I parked the car on the side. The bus, just like very evening, arrived, but did not stop – for the first time. For seven days, he had always arrived with the same bus, but on that evening not.
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Aharoni, Zvi
(Israeli secret service, Mosad) , speaking German:
- "As he walked beside the car, Zwika stopped him. We wanted to speak to him somehow before we caught him.
Zwika went after him, jumped on him and they started to fight about three or four meters from the car. Eichmann was shouting.
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Eitan, Rafi
(leader of the Eichmann operation) , speaking English:
- "He was shouting – somehow like:"
Aharoni, Zvi
(Israeli secret service, Mosad) , speaking German:
- "Than I screamed to Rafi, who was still sitting in the back seat. I told him: Go, help him! He doesn’t have to hide any more. He jumped out of the car, so the three of them clinched Eichmann and put him into the car.
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Eichmann, Adolf
(member of National socialist Labor party ) , speaking German:
- "I was unlucky to have been involved in these awful things. But these dreadful things did not happen of my free will. I didn’t want to kill people.
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Eichmann, Adolf
(member of National socialist Labor party ) , speaking German:
- "Had I been a chief of a concentration camp, I would have acted the same way. Or, if I had received an order to kill Jews by gas, or shoot them, I would have fulfilled the order as well.
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Eitan, Rafi
(leader of the Eichmann operation) , speaking English:
- "Before he had to go, he looked ad me and said a few words in German. The deputy commander of the prison translated: „I hope that soon you will all follow me.“
He stepped very, very calmly into the execution room.
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