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Article: Israel's state archive releases the prison memoirs of Hitler henchman Adolf Eichmann.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- February 29, 2000
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JERUSALEM _ After keeping the prison memoirs of Adolf Eichmann in a cardboard box for nearly 40 years, Israel's state archive released them Tuesday, providing a rare glimpse into the mind of one of Hitler's top henchmen.
"I saw hell, death and the Devil. I had to witness the insanity of annihilation," Eichmann wrote, according to a typed transcript of the 1,200-page handwritten manuscript. "I hereby endeavor to give an account of this, as a warning." Eichmann, who supervised the vast apparatus that carried out the Nazi Holocaust, was captured by Israeli secret agents in Argentina in 1960, tried in Jerusalem and hanged in 1962 _ the only time Israel has used ...