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Article: I WAS ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS - EICHMANN.(News)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- August 12, 1999
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EVIL Adolf Eichmann poured out his feelings as he waited for the hangman in an Israeli prison.
And yesterday, extracts from the prison diary of the man who helped organise the Holocaust were published in Germany.
They show a man who had no conscience and who was unwilling to accept any responsibility for what was one of the greatest crimes against humanity.
Like scores of Nazi war criminals before him, he came up with the pathetic justification: "I was only following orders."
Eichmann stood trial in Israel for his part in the ...