http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann
To cut short, he was in charge of the logistics and general day to day running of the infamous Nazi (NSDAP) concentration camps throughout Europe during WWII. Although he never physically released the gas/shot a prisoner etc, he can be tied in part to the death of around 70% of people killed in the concentration camps (as run by the NSDAP partei)
Following the fall of Nazi Germany, he fled, eventually ending up in Argentina. From the he was captured and extradited to Israel by Mossad, was tried for various crimes (mostly war crimes), and eventually hung.
And follows the main point:
His defense was mainly "I was only following orders".
His follow-through of these orders led to the death of countless people, a definite reason for the death penalty - few would argue.
But how does his defense "I was only following orders" hold? In his defense, if he hadn't have micromanaged the operation of aforementioned camps, someone else would have simply stepped into the role. The fact is, whoever was appointed, the task would still have been carried out.
Therefore, was it right to carry out capital punishment upon this man? Or should the blame have lied upon his superiors?
My mind is already made up, this is something i have read far into. I am simply playing Devil's Advocate.
Earlier this year i researched into Nazi Germany und so weiter as part of my German studies, and this man interested me in particular.wikipedia wrote:
Otto Adolf Eichmann (March 19, 1906–May 31, 1962), sometimes referred to as "the architect of the Holocaust", was a Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer (equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel). Due to his organizational talents and ideological reliability, he was charged by Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. After the war, he traveled to Argentina using a fraudulently obtained laissez-passer issued by the International Red Cross[1][2] and lived there under a false identity working for Mercedes-Benz until the 1960s. He was captured by Israeli Mossad agents in Argentina and tried in Israeli court on fifteen criminal charges, including crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was convicted and hanged in 1962.
To cut short, he was in charge of the logistics and general day to day running of the infamous Nazi (NSDAP) concentration camps throughout Europe during WWII. Although he never physically released the gas/shot a prisoner etc, he can be tied in part to the death of around 70% of people killed in the concentration camps (as run by the NSDAP partei)
Following the fall of Nazi Germany, he fled, eventually ending up in Argentina. From the he was captured and extradited to Israel by Mossad, was tried for various crimes (mostly war crimes), and eventually hung.
And follows the main point:
His defense was mainly "I was only following orders".
His follow-through of these orders led to the death of countless people, a definite reason for the death penalty - few would argue.
But how does his defense "I was only following orders" hold? In his defense, if he hadn't have micromanaged the operation of aforementioned camps, someone else would have simply stepped into the role. The fact is, whoever was appointed, the task would still have been carried out.
Therefore, was it right to carry out capital punishment upon this man? Or should the blame have lied upon his superiors?
My mind is already made up, this is something i have read far into. I am simply playing Devil's Advocate.
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