Hans Rustad Den israelske agenten som fant og fikk tatt Adolf Eichmann i Argentina i 1960, er død. Peter Malkin ventet på Eichmann utenfor Eichmanns bolig i Buenos Aires, la ham i bakken, lempet ham inn i en bil og fikk stornazisten smuglet til Israel der han ble stilt for retten for organiseringen av jødetransportene til dødsleirene.
According to his memoirs, «Eichmann in My Hands,» Malkin said to him simply, «Un momentito, senor» (Just a moment, sir), before kidnapping him. (ap)
Malchin, a martial arts expert, decided to confront Eichmann alone near his home on Garibaldi Street to avoid attracting attention and to ensure he would be brought to Israel «in one piece,» (journalist og nær venn Uri) Dan said.
«There were six million pairs of eyes on me … I had to succeed,» Malchin later recounted, Dan said.
Malchin, who was born Tzvi Milchman, escaped the Holocaust, but dozens of his relatives were among the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II. (reuters)
In his book «Eichmann in My Hands,» Malchin described how he told Eichmann during the 10 days the Mossad team held him before smuggling him to Israel on an El Al plane that he was responsible for the death of his nephew in the Holocaust.
«He was just your son’s age. Also blond and blue-eyed, just like your son, and you killed him,» Malchin told Eichmann.
«Genuinely perplexed by the observation, he actually waited a moment to see if I would clarify it,» Malchin recounted in his book. ‘Yes’, he said finally, ‘but he was Jewish, wasn’t he,» Malchin wrote.
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Eichmann was put on trial in Jerusalem, and was executed in 1962. The trial provided a catharsis for many Israelis, traumatized by the Holocaust.
Malkin was born Zvi Milchman and lived in Poland until the age of 4. He served in the Mossad for 27 years and was said to be a master of martial arts and disguises.
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Among his other achievements, according to a World Zionist Organization Web Site, was the capture of a Soviet spy who had penetrated the highest levels of the Israeli leadership and an operation against Nazi nuclear rocket scientists who assisted an Egyptian weapons development program after World War II.
