Eichmann Plea for Pardon Found in Israeli Presidential Archives (1 Viewer)

[jazzeum]

A pardon plea by Adolf Eichmann has been found in the presidential archives. Eichmann claimed he was following orders.

See Eichmann's Plea for Pardon

 

[lancer]

I know it's human nature to try and preserve one's own life, but it sure takes enormous ignorance, or arrogance, to beg for one's life when you are guilty of such crimes as Eichmann was. Did he actually believe he was worthy of mercy? What a pig. Israel did the right thing, then, now, and always. -- Al

 

[Napoleon1er]

Even better than this plea was the note that the President of Israel sent to his wife after she had sent him a plea for clemency, "But Samuel said, 'As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.' (Samuel 1 15:3)"


Similar to Hannah Arendt's words:

"And just as you supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations - as though you and your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world - we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang."
- Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem

 

[PanzerAce1944]

I know it's human nature to try and preserve one's own life, but it sure takes enormous ignorance, or arrogance, to beg for one's life when you are guilty of such crimes as Eichmann was. Did he actually believe he was worthy of mercy? What a pig. Israel did the right thing, then, now, and always. -- Al

Agreed, They should have shot him on the spot just for having the nerve to ask !

Wayne

 

[Sentaapua]

Agreed, They should have shot him on the spot just for having the nerve to ask !

Wayne

Couldn't agree more!

 

[hotel3alpha]

I know it's human nature to try and preserve one's own life, but it sure takes enormous ignorance, or arrogance, to beg for one's life when you are guilty of such crimes as Eichmann was. Did he actually believe he was worthy of mercy? What a pig. Israel did the right thing, then, now, and always. -- Al

Here, here Al. What you just wrote needs to be logged into "Famous Qoutes".

John from Texas

 

[lancer]

Here, here Al. What you just wrote needs to be logged into "Famous Qoutes".

John from Texas

Very kind of you,John. The audacity of the request for clemency just stunned me. Unbelievable. -- Al