Mr. Peter Malkin speaking to a group recalls the day he captured Adolph Eichmann.
Another Israeli hero has passed on.
Posted on 03/02/2005 11:16:52 AM PST by Borges
JERUSALEM (AP) - Peter Malkin, the Mossad agent who nabbed top Nazi official Adolf Eichmann on a Buenos Aires street in 1960, has died in New York, Israeli Media reported Wednesday. He was 77. Cause of death was not given.
Eichmann was in charge of implementing the "final solution," the Nazi design to kill all the Jews of Europe. Six million perished in the Second World War Nazi Holocaust, most put to death in concentration camps.
Israel, created in 1948, three years after the end of the war, pledged to hunt down Nazi leaders. The Mossad security agency tracked Eichmann to Argentina, and Malkin stopped him in the street. According to his memoirs, Eichmann in My Hands, Malkin said to him simply, "Un momentito, senor" (just a moment, sir), before kidnapping him.
Those were the only words he knew in Spanish, according to a website of the World Zionist Organization. He grabbed Eichmann's arm and wrestled him to the ground as another agent grabbed his legs, stuffing him into a car. Eichmann was interrogated for 10 days in a safehouse before being spirited to Israel on a plane that carried an unwitting diplomat, Abba Eban, later Israel's foreign minister, for a meeting with Argentine officials as a cover.
Eichmann was put on trial in Jerusalem. He 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 four, the WZO site said. He served in the Mossad for 27 years and was a master of martial arts and disguises, the website said.
Has anyone notified Ward Churchill???
Why not?
May peace be upon him, and upon all Israel. Amen.
Rest in Peace.
A real man.
God bless him for his role in the capture of this nazi monster. May he go on now to his eternal reward.
A lifetime's worth of satisfaction, crammed into one brief moment. I hope Malkin's last moment was spent remembering it.
So, according to the ACLU. He was abducted?
And now we catch grief for putting panties on a few terrorists.
What impressed me most in the book about Eichmann's capture (The House on Garibaldi Street, by Isser Harel amd Shlomo J. Shpiro) was the cooperation the Mossad got from Israelis. All the Israelis they asked to help agreed to help, explaining that they had lost parents or siblings in the death camps, or had survived the camps themselves.
Mr. Peter Malkin speaking to a group recalls the day he captured Adolph Eichmann.
Another Israeli hero has passed on.
UN Human Rights Commission now says that Eichmann's civil rights were violated. (sarc)
May he rest in eternal peace, and those whom he avenged.
Why yes, since Ward Churchill hates mini Eichmanns, he must love Israelis who capture real ones. Right? Sure, he does..
LOL!
Thanks - RIP
BTTT.
Rest in peace.
Bump.
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