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Article: Holocaust Architect's Son Says Father's Execution Was Justified
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 6, 1995
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JERUSALEM Adolf Eichmann's youngest son, breaking the family's
silence, said Monday that he is relieved that his father was hanged
for being an architect of the Holocaust.
"What would I do with him" if he were still alive, Ricardo
Eichmann said in an interview. "Tell him to go to hell? Offer him
refuge?"
The 40-year-old Eichmann also said he believed the execution of
his father in Israel in 1962 was justified.
As chief of the Gestapo's Jewish section, Adolf Eichmann oversaw
the Nazis' deportation and murder of millions of Jews during World
War II. He promoted the use of gas chambers in death camps.
After the war, Eichmann escaped to South America but was
kidnapped by Israeli agents ...