Operation Finale
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I watched it last night on Netflix, about the Israeli capture of Eichmann.
I thought the movie was OK - Ben Kingsley did a good job of portraying a shabby-looking bloke in late middle age, only revealing the monster underneath quite late in the movie.
Definitely worth a look if you're bored.
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No, thanks - I'll give it a look.
The term 'The banality of evil' seems to describe Eichmann to a tee. This mundane bureaucrat who oversaw and organized such horror.
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Decades ago I read a book on the trial by the prosecutor. He told the story of a Ukrainian farmer who hid several Jewish families on his farm. He prepared unleavened bread for them, protected them from capture. When the war was ended, the families collected some jewelry to give him as a partial thanks for what he had done. He refused the gifts saying, "you'll need that to start your new lives." A while later when it was found what he had done, the farmer's house was burned. The prosecutor noted, "he now lives with us in Israel."
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I read a book on the capture of Adolf Eichmann, but not the one that Jon mentions. It was still a good book however and quite interesting. I looked and I think it was "The House on Girabaldi Street"
