Why was adolf eichmann hung

Ready for the eventuality that the clemency appeal might be rejected by the President the Commissioner of Prisons had earlier named two executioners, rather than one, to spring the execution trap, so that no one would ever know which of the two men had actually carried out the death sentence. It was believed that the remains would be cremated and the ashes spread over the Mediterranean waters, so as not to establish any place which may later be used by Nazi followers as a "shrine.

Prior to the announcement that the President had rejected the final clemency plea, Eichmann was visited at Ramleh prison for an hour and a half by the Rev. William Hull, a Canadian clergyman who had been the only religious representative to visit the prisoner.

Hull was accompanied by his wife, who acted as interpreter. According to Mrs. Hell, the visit was "very discouraging. He had no requests to make nor any final wish. The whole area surrounding Ramleh prison, on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road, was cordoned off and roadblocks were placed on the approaches to the prison which was under huge searchlights.

Four journalists—two Israeli and two foreign correspondents—were permitted to enter the prison while all other journalists trying to get into the area were requested to turn back. Israeli embassies and legations throughout the world, but mainly in Latin America and Europe, were instructed to take precautionary measures after the execution was announced. In the safe house, they stripped him naked, blinded his eyes, and checked to make sure he was not carrying poison on his body or in his mouth.

He asked a second time and was told Ricardo Klement. Then, Eitan said, Aharoni asked for his name again and he said, Adlolf Eichmann. If I was in his situation, that would not have happened to me. Eitan, in a blue dress shirt and black Adidas sneakers, spoke of the first time he was asked to take a life for his country, in the mids. His officer chose him and another man to lay an ambush for the German — often pro-Nazi — Templers, who remained in pre-state Israel and to kill some of them in order to deter their co-religionists from returning to Palestine after the Second World War.

Eitan, then 19, found the appropriate spot, stopped the carriage near the Jezreel Valley town of Alonei Abba, and quickly and randomly shot two men. He said he remembered their faces well but neither now nor then felt any need to learn their names.

For all intents and purposes, he further divulged that former prime minister Shimon Peres and defense minister Yitzhak Rabin were well aware of the fact that Israel was running an agent within the US armed forces. Pollard, a civilian intelligence analyst for the US Navy, passed reams of classified material to Israel from the summer of until November He has been serving a life sentence in US federal prison since and will be eligible for parole in November Pollard was recruited by an up-and-coming Israel Air Force officer, Col.

Aviem Sella, and run by Eitan. The Nazi trial that shaped Israel. On the run from the Nazis. Image source, AFP. Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem, after being captured by Israeli agents in Argentina. Image source, Israeli President's Office. Adolf Eichmann hand-wrote and signed his plea for clemency. Related Topics.