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Article: EICHMANN DEFENDED ROLE AS `OBEDIENCE' NEWLY FOUND MEMOIRS SHOW COLD DETACHMENT IN JEWISH HOLOCAUST.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 13, 1999
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``Obeying an order was the most important thing to me. It could be that is in the nature of the German.''
So, early in memoirs published yesterday by the German daily Die Welt, does Adolf Eichmann seek to explain his central role in the killing of 6 million European Jews by the Nazis.
The statement, part of an attempt by Eichmann to portray himself as a man driven by duty, rather than by hatred, to organize the mass murder of Jews, appears on page 6 of 127 pages of handwritten reflections that Die Welt said it found at the Center for Research on Nazi Crimes in the southern German town of Ludwigsburg.
The Israeli Justice Ministry announced this ...