A new film, Operation Finale, starring Oscar Isaac and Ben Kingsley, retells the extraordinary secret Mossad mission to capture Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. While the film takes a few liberties with events, here’s the true story how one of the key architects of the Holocaust was brought to Israel and put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Eichmann was responsible for planning the logistics of transporting six million Jews to their deaths. He boasted that he was responsible for the deaths of at least five million people. In 1945 he declared, “I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.”
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