Des enregistrements d’Eichmann de 1957 mettent au jour son rôle moteur dans la solution finale, son objectif génocidaire assumé & son antisémitisme viscéral.
De ses propres mots, il fut donc plus qu’1 simple rouage du système. Un mal pas si banal que ça.
Nazi Tapes Provide a Chilling Sequel to the Eichmann Trial - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/04/world/middleeast/adolf-eichmann-documentary-israel.html
Six decades after the historic trial in Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief engineers of the Holocaust, a new Israeli documentary series has delivered a dramatic coda: the boastful confessions of the Nazi war criminal, in his own voice.
The hours of old tape recordings, which had been denied to Israeli prosecutors at the time of Eichmann’s trial, provided the basis for the series, called “The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes,” which has generated keen interest in Israel as it aired over the past month.
The tapes fell into various private hands after being made in 1957 by a Dutch Nazi sympathizer, before eventually ending up in a German government archive, which in 2020 gave the Israeli co-creators of the series — Kobi Sitt, the producer; and Yariv Mozer, the director — permission to use the recordings.
Eichmann went to the gallows insisting that he was a mere functionary following orders, denying responsibility for the crimes of which he had been found guilty. Describing himself as a small cog in the state apparatus who was in charge of train schedules, his professed mediocrity gave rise to the philosopher Hannah Arendt’s theory of the banality of evil.The documentary series
Exposing Eichmann’s visceral, ideological antisemitism, his zeal for hunting down Jews and his role in the mechanics of mass murder, the series brings the missing evidence from the trial to a mass audience for the first time.
Eichmann can be heard swatting a fly that was buzzing around the room and describing it as having “a Jewish nature.”
