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Mazel tov!

Mazel tov!

Thank you.

[ Speaking in Hebrew ]

The Argentine Embassy issued a request for clarification

earlier today.

Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion refused to comment immediately,

but is expected to address an emergency meeting

of the Knesset any moment now.

Discretion is going to be essential.

You are to tell no one. No one.

Sir!

Ah, here it comes. Let's go in.

At an emergency meeting with the Knesset this afternoon,

Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announced that Adolf Eichmann

wanted for his part in the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis

is now captive on Israeli soil.

He will stand trial for crimes against humanity and the Jewish people.

I know.

Careful with your head.

Don't be late for my doctor's appointment.

Would I ever?

Yeah.

Still love you.

-Morning, Benjamin. -Morning, Vera.

-Hello. -Hello.

I'm Ben-Gurion. Come with me.

The Minister's waiting for you.

Shalom, Vera.

These personnel are, um,

collecting testimony and taking depositions from survivors.

But only you will have the full picture.

Based on the material you are given,

you will decide what questions to ask Eichmann and when.

Yeah.

Knowing you, I'm sure you'll very quickly gather enough evidence.

It won't be by tomorrow.

Ah, good, Hans!

Captain Avner Less,

permit me to introduce the incorruptible Hans Lipmann.

How do you do?

Well, thank you.

Hans will be assisting you.

Please, sir.

Kind Mr. Guard.

Merci,

gracias,

dankeschon.

Ah!

There he is.

The greatest living threat ever to the Jewish people.

Don't worry,

there'll be no risk to you or your family.

Risk?

It has been 15 years.

We want justice.

Let the past stay in the past.

-Forget it. -No, Sarah.

We want the world to know what that man did.

Revenge?

If that's what you want to call it, darling.

Yes, I do.

Don't you think he should be tried by due process of law?

Avner, even if he is found guilty, what are we going to do with him?

Not execute him. So, what's the point?

And who's going to do the interrogation?

Who have we got who's trained?

-No one. -No one. Yes, no one.

So, let's, um, hang him or shoot him now, all right?

Kill him?

At least we'd save some money.

And, anyway, our legal process is a shambles.

Yeah, but the Government are not prepared to ratify the death penalty.

And how long has that been on the books?

Since the creation of Israel.

-Yeah, 13 years. -12 years.

-13 years, yeah. -13 years, I think.

Well, I think we're paying him too much respect

by giving him a trial.

-Absolutely. -Think about it, right.

So, we give him a trial.

Which indulges him.

I mean, what new information can be gleaned?

What else is there to know? He's a murderer.

Any Jew who believes he's deserving of a trial

is a traitor to his own people.

Right.

Don't you agree, Avner?

I think we should have some more wine.

Is everything okay, my friend?

Yeah.

Yeah.

What did the doctor say?

Well, truth be told, I'm officially in remission.

That's wonderful.

Isn't it?

Sarah... I have polio of the spine.

Yeah.

But you've always had enough energy for two people.

Maybe.

Not anymore, though.

Big mistake, the doctor said, was to have children in the first place.

But Avner and I always wanted family.

And they've been a blessing.

I just don't want them to see me in a wheelchair.

Among us we lost about 60 of our family.

Imagine that.

That man is responsible

for about 60 of our relatives not being here.

Should pay someone to shoot him in the head and be done with it.

And we'll look like a lot of trigger-happy Kikes

who deserve to lose our little strip of sand.

Eichmann to hell!

Send him to hell!

Captain Less?

-Your files, sir. -Ah!

Thank you.

Herr Eichmann, my name is Captain Avner Less.

With your permission I will be asking you some questions.

Permission gladly granted, Captain.

Can you confirm that you signed this document, Herr Eichmann?

Yes.

It states that I came to Israel of my own free will in order to account

for my part in the Final Solution.

Captain...

...I think you will find that I can prove

I was only a humble cog in what was, admittedly,

a highly intimidating machine,

now, of course, on the scrap heap of history.

The intention of The Third Reich

surely was rather more than intimidation.

Well, of course.

The Reich was oppressed on three frontiers.

Our survival as a civilized nation was in question.

You in Israel now must know what it's like

to be surrounded by your enemies.

Herr Eichmann,

I am told that you are willing to give us your version of your role

in the so-called Third Reich.

Is that right?

Jawohl. Let's begin.

Oh, hey.

Oh, I missed you two.

What did you learn today?

We learnt about daddy.

Can we talk?

Vera.

Vera.

Look, I was told not to tell anyone.

How come every Jew in the country knew before I did?

Even the children! I'm your wife!

What are you doing? Why are you treating me like this?

An order is an order.

If I'm told not to tell anyone, then I can't.

Bullshit, for Christ's sake!

Bullshit.

What is your religious affiliation?

There is one creator who is independent

of the material universe.

But to believe that God is separate from His creation,

as I have often been pointing out to my children, is--

You have four sons.

The second youngest...

...Dieter...

...was named after your friend, Dieter Wisliceny.

He was also your subordinate

and testified in Nuremberg saying that you--

I know, I know.

Blaming me. Trying to save his neck.

It didn't work.

Wisliceny claimed that you said you would

"jump into your grave laughing

because you have the death of five million Jews on your conscience

which gives you extraordinary satisfaction.”

I did not say "Jews".

I said, "Enemies of The Reich".

Captain, is it possible I could have some red wine to settle my stomach?

Were you ever aware of using drink as an anesthetic in the war?

Captain, if you want to show me as a drunken Nazi fiend

sending train-loads of Jews to their deaths

in an ecstasy of alcoholic rage,

I can see the publicity value in that.

But between ourselves,

the exactness of my memory

for meetings and personnel 20 years ago

will dispel any notion of lack of control.

Do you ever regret your admiration for the Fuhrer?

The Fuhrer was a mirror held up to a Greater Germany.

When we fell in love with him,

it was really our greater selves that he was enabling everyone to see.

What about the Jews who admired Hitler?

I sympathize with their position because I shared their beliefs.

And what do Germans not share with Jews?

Their inherited race.

The Fuhrer's desire, which we had orders to carry out

was to completely clean the German race's blood of impurities.

To purify Germany,

why do you need to kill Greek Jews or Hungarian Jews?

I know.

I never met a Greek Jew I didn't like.

But those were the orders.

How did your doctors

show the difference between the German race and others?

They were able to show that the congenital deformations

of the Slavic races were nearly always sexual in origin.

Dear Klaus, Horst, Dieter, and my dear Ricardo.

My dear children.

My four sons.

You know what I have been dreaming about?

It's a lovely, long-ago memory of us all together.

Happy days of freedom.

I remember the night you arrived in Garibaldi Street.

Your mother had joined me with you youngsters in tow

to start a new life in Argentina.

Suddenly, you had a father again.

That night, in that humble house in Buenos Aires

we were all together, safe again.

Your mother had never given up hope.

That very night your youngest brother was conceived,

something that brought me great happiness.

Does he know he's not going to see his sons again?

It turns my stomach.

Oh, no.

Hey!

You should be in bed.

So should you.

I hope you are thinking about our safety.

Hey.

Hey, big boy.

We're going to bed.

This letter, I know, may never reach you.

I have anticipated this moment of separation

from my loved ones for some time.

One of my few regrets in life is

that moving between Poland, Berlin and Budapest,

I got to spend so little time with you growing up.

Bye-bye, Father.

Often when it was dark when I was walking home, I would be thinking:

"They might be there”.

But in the end...

...it's wearing.

-Shalom. -Shalom.

Why was your department called IV.B4?

Roman IV stood for Gestapo, 'B' was religion,

and Arabic script 4 was for Jews.

It was a transport department

which accounts for the relative anonymity I enjoyed

before those Nuremberg traitors

emptied their chamber pots over my reputation.

You had the reputation

of being something of a departmental tyrant in IV.B4.

It wasn't my job to be loved.

When thinking of my role, which now seems so long ago,

in the past,

and almost unimportant, since it did not succeed...

...I often ponder the lessons of history.

Of course, there will always be subtle connections

with five million leaving through the smoke stacks.

The particles have to come down somewhere.

This here.

In 1942, your chauffeur received a prison sentence.

For theft. He stole -- from my office.

One meter square of linoleum

which you, as sole witness, found in the car.

Yes, it was reckless of him to leave it there.

He was sentenced to four years.

What else had he done to upset you?

I don't know what you mean.

You were married in 1935.

But according to Dieter Wisliceny, you enjoyed numerous liaisons.

Does that carry the death sentence, too?

I don't know what liaisons you refer to, Captain.

I don't know. I don't know at all.

Help me.

Two maids, three secretaries, a businesswoman.

And a mistress on a stolen farm in Austria.

Not stolen.

The Reich transferred all property to itself, entirely legally.

She was Jewish.

In fact, she had earlier been divorced from an SS officer for being Jewish.

I have no recollection of this.

Let me help.

The Reich requisitioned the farm 10 kilometers west of Doppl,

and when Fraulein Ann Marie Schmidt moved in,

you staffed it with concentration camp labor.

No, no, no, no.

This accusation that I would run some rural love nest

with a Jewess in Austria...

It's certainly comical.

Out!

He takes too many liberties.

-What's going on? -Nothing.

I'm being posted to Hungary.

To Hungary?

The farm transfer papers are in your married name.

You will stay here without workforce.

But what about the animals? And horses?

Shoot them.

Well, come on.

Come on.

Hello, Papa.

-Hey.

Do you want a drink?

Yes.

Thank you.

How long did you have an association with Countess Ingrid Von lhama?

Ingrid was a Baroness, not a Countess.

We came together

at the beginning of the Hungarian evacuation and parted at the end.

It must have been expensive for a humble Obersturmbannführer

with a family to support to impress such a titled lady.

I understand that you indulged her expensive tastes.

I don't know what you mean.

Well, I wasn't going to bring it up today,

but one item you gave her came to 1,500 Reichsmarks.

"Material to be supplied by client.”

300 grams of dental gold.

Where did that come from?

I beg your pardon?

To create the twin 24-carat suicide rings

for you and the Baroness.

Even though neither of you seem to have availed yourselves

of the cyanide capsules.

Fool that I was in those mad times, as The Reich collapsed,

I fancied in Hungary I had found my fellow soul.

Go.

This dress is one my great, great, great grandmother wore

at the ball to celebrate freeing Vienna from the Turks.

It's worn with nothing underneath.

Your ancestor would have approved my modern victory against the Orient.

In six months I cleansed Vienna of every Jew.

You don't go far enough while you can.

I don't go far enough?

Out of 900,000 Hungarian Jews, you have killed only half a million.

You're careless.

You let them slip through your fingers.

Poland had three million Jews.

Today none are left.

None?

None.

Add to that 120,000 Germans.

Jews?

Jews, Jews. Of course Jews.

More?

More.

700,000 Russians.

More.

75,000 French.

More.

100,000 Dutch.

More.

More?

More.

Not enough.

Over four million Jews already processed.

Killed.

Use the right words, or you'll never become a master race.

Thank you, soldier.

Yes?

This infant has a hereditary sickness of the blood.

Now...

...do your duty for the Great Reich.

Nothing will remain of your decision.

The child's flesh will feed your dogs.

Any bones they don't eat will be ground down to make a fertilizer.

You have always boasted Auschwitz grows the best cabbages.

But I hadn't.

Hadn't what?

Found my fellow soul.

[ Speaking in German ]

Is this it?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

Eichmann out now!

[ Speaking in Hebrew ]

I beg your pardon?

It's the first Book of Moses.

Genesis, chapter one.

It's how the Bible starts in Hebrew.

Of course.

Of course it is.

You were appointed Reichsführer's deputy

for Jewish questions because of your language skills.

I may have exaggerated a little,

if only to protect the Jews in my charge.

You see yourself as a protector of Jews?

Where it was possible without going against my soldier's oath.

We'll carry on later.

Open the gate!

Ah, Captain.

Yes.

They told me that I would find you here and not in the prison.

I had to leave. It's standard security procedure, Minister.

Mmm.

[ Speaking in Hebrew ]

Is something wrong?

You know, when we started this process,

those who were affected by the genocide

were excluded from recruitment at Bureau Zero Six.

Until today we understood that your father died of natural causes

in Theresienstadt.

What are you saying?

I'm saying, Avner, that you need to take a look at this.

Sit, sit, sit.

See, here, Eichmann's signature.

It's a passenger list for Auschwitz.

But look further down. There.

Your father, Abraham Less.

With a stroke of the pen,

he personally sent him to the gas chambers.

You don't need me to tell you what this means.

The minute the media finds out, you're gone.

Finished.

So, you need to get a confession, and you need to do it quick, Captain.

You must resign.

Let them sort out the mess.

Why are you so upset?

The Nazis killed my mother, too.

But I'm really upset,

Avner, because I'm worried about you.

It's going to come out sooner or later.

They can't keep a secret, and you know that.

This is a government of appeasers.

You are their pawn.

Not today.

[ Speaking in Hebrew ]

Hello.

Hello. Is this Captain Less?

This is Miriam Fröhlich from The Jerusalem Post.

I hope I haven't caught you at an inconvenient time,

but I wondered if you could possibly spare a few moments.

Hi, Vera.

Oh. Oh, hey.

Um, I'm sorry, I thought I was picking up Ruth and Zackeri.

Oh, Vera, it's just, we don't want you picking the kids up at the moment.

Sarah doesn't, actually. She thinks it's too dangerous.

Why?

You're a target.

Traitor!

Traitor!

Traitor!

I was beginning to think our little meetings had stopped, Captain.

I hope it was nothing I said.

You know what I've been thinking?

If a greater act of atonement would suffice than my own execution,

let me hang myself

as an example and deterrent to all anti-Semites.

We are obliged to make every effort to keep you alive, for now.

It was just a thought.

That's al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem

and President of the Supreme Muslim Council.

He has called for the extinction of Jewry.

Do you know him personally?

I met him when I visited Palestine for the Reich in 1938.

But we were not close.

He was impressed by Hitler, not by me.

Is it, um...?

Is it not true...

...al-Husseini, at your invitation,

visited the concentration camps

as part of a diplomatic visit he made to Germany in 19417

Did he?

I can't remember now.

Did you ever receive gifts from him on behalf of the Nazi Party?

Never. Never. Never.

He's lying.

Every time he repeats himself three times, he's lying.

You're right.

These are the gifts Eichmann received from Husseini --

gold chains and coins, and a jeweled dagger.

I knew it.

I gave them back.

Go to bed.

Bed.

It is amazing the information that comes up in our researches.

I never knew Mein Kampf was translated into Arabic.

Facts are strange things.

For instance,

I read in the newspaper your wife is called Vera.

Well, that is my wife's name, too.

What an amazing coincidence.

The chances of us both perhaps...

Perhaps it goes some way

to explaining my fellow feelings for you.

Tell me, Captain, who trained you in interrogation?

The British?

That must make you a very fair policeman, then.

British police are meant to be fair, aren't they?

I expect it beats being a hairdresser.

Who told you I had been a hairdresser?

It was in the newspapers as well. Another fact.

So here I am, sharing my secrets with a Jewish barber.

My wife's family made it a condition that I should have a trade.

Well, I had to join the Nazi Party before my Vera would have me.

Off you go. Go on.

Race me.

Hannah, wait for me!

Mommy!

It's an order for skulls.

But I don't remember.

From a Professor Hirt of Strasbourg University Medical...

I must have turned the whole thing over

to the Administration and Supply Department.

I mean --

where could I have got the skulls they wanted?

At the time of writing,

these skeletons and skulls would have still been alive.

So the raw materials, as it were, would have been live humans.

Jews.

Look, this is really nothing to do with me.

The doctors could always go independently

to the concentration camps and select whatever they required.

I'm a transportation officer.

If the order for shipment goes out to you,

and you carry out the order knowing they will die,

does that not make you responsible?

I can't remember this case at all.

And there is no documentation involving me.

You could have given verbal instructions.

I can remember a conversation discussing some such items,

but Section IV, my section, was not involved.

So why, then, are you being consulted about skulls

if you weren't aware of the deaths,

and that the heads were then transported

in specially made, individual caskets to Strasbourg?

I'm racking my brains.

I have no idea, Captain. No idea.

I was never frightened before.

Not even when we were running from the gendarmes

in the kibbutz in France.

Do you recall receiving a Red Cross representative

on the 6th of April 1945 in a visit to Theresienstadt?

Yes.

But I can't remember his name.

Dubois?

His report says,

"On April 6th, 1945

we visited the Theresienstadt ghetto

and had lengthy conferences with Obersturmbannführer Eichmann,

the direct Deputy of the Reichsführer SS,

the specialist of all Jewish questions.”

Dubois writes that he asked you who authorized for the transports,

but he didn't get an answer.

At this stage in the war,

every conceivable department is exerting pressure

shipping everyone here to Theresienstadt.

And how many of your transports

have been involved in movement to Auschwitz?

You will have to ask Doctor Epstein about numbers.

But he says you have the figures.

Herr Eichmann, is shipping Jews to the gas chambers of Auschwitz

a humane way of relieving pressure at Theresienstadt in your view?

I was obeying orders.

Whose orders were you obeying?

Hitler's.

But I thought you were directly responsible to Himmler?

What is your point, Captain?

I am simply trying to ascertain, Herr Eichmann

if you were acting under orders.

Or what?

Or whether you were acting under your own authority.

No, no, no, no.

Whereas, if he was just taking following orders

as a simple transportation officer,

this completely contradicts anything that he says.

Yes, sir.

Please, please, go on, Hans.

Well, there's a Rabbi living in St. Louis now

who claims he knows somebody who saw Eichmann shooting a baby.

And the primary witness?

She's dead.

Then, forget it.

So, Captain...

...how are you?

I want to talk to you about my protection, Minister.

-My door was vandalized. -Yes. Yes, I heard about that.

The officer on duty has been reprimanded.

I want to assure you, Avner,

that we take these threats on your family very seriously.

As do I

There is now a death penalty.

You see, I have to talk more to my counselors first.

I'll see you again tomorrow.

-Thank you so much. -You're very welcome.

Who is that?

Captain Less.

Yes.

Pleased to meet you. Doctor Robert Servatius.

Counsel for the defense.

Gentlemen.

Have you heard my good news, Captain?

I've been going through the transcripts.

There's not enough.

Enough what?

Enough hard evidence

that his lawyer can't chip away at in court

or get him extradited to Germany.

There's no death penalty in Germany,

which is ironic.

You know, I've had to send researchers

all over the world at vast expense to talk to survivors,

but I have to support their evidence with an actual confession.

He'll never confess.

He won't admit he's guilty of anything.

Don't you want a confession, Avner?

You're approaching this like some schtetl Jew.

I'm not interested if he had a dozen Jewish mistresses.

I want an admission of guilt.

So do I, Mordecai.

Thank you, my dear sir.

I was thinking we have a great deal in common.

Like you, I was a police officer following orders.

You were SS, not police.

Easy to forget.

You witnessed Jews being shot.

I didn't know what was going on at first.

Because that kind of thing was nothing to do with me.

When I realized, I became ill at what was happening.

I threw up.

I could hardly speak at the inhumanity.

We have several depositions that you were present at hangings.

That wasn't me.

I would have remembered such a terrible thing.

According to our informants, you intervened

and required the nooses to be re-used,

because although it was faster to cut them down,

a Jewish life was not worth the waste of rope.

That's a lie.

A complete fabrication.

[ Speaking German ]

I had nothing to do with killing Jews.

I've never killed a Jew.

I've never ordered anyone to kill a Jew.

Maybe that is what gives me a certain peace of mind.

I might be guilty because I helped with evacuation.

But carbon monoxide was proving inefficient.

So you began researching other means of killing.

It is not your intentions

as a Kommandant here that are in question

but your understanding of efficiency.

Zyklon B has been developed after successful use

in delousing garments,

and it is bound to be just as efficient with human vermin.

If this new gas is administered correctly in this volume of space,

there is no need for any interludes in the cycle.

Did you have official knowledge then

that this new technique of gassing with Zyklon B was going on?

I knew it. Of course I did.

Everyone did.

So how does deportation not amount to killing?

Simple.

It wasn't my job to decide

who was selected for the work process and who was not.

Wisliceny in his Nuremberg memoir suggests the existence

of a sustained culture of death in your department.

I will tell you how reliable his memoirs are.

They say there were ways of circumventing Hitler's orders.

There was one way, and only one way:

to take a pistol and shoot yourself.

But I obeyed.

Regardless of what I was ordered to do, I would have obeyed.

I can't shed my skin, Captain, that was my attitude at the time.

When I received an order, I obeyed, because an oath is an oath,

and I had taken an oath of loyalty.

I refuse to take responsibility for things I had no orders for

and which were not my department.

At the same time, I'm not one of those people

who said suddenly at the war's end, "I was always against it",

who tried to save their necks with tawdry explanations.

[ Speaking Hebrew ]

I'm not feeling so hungry tonight.

How many Jews were evacuated from Hungary

in the first period you were there?

We've been over this so many times, Captain.

How many?

450,000, probably.

Is it true you told the Jewish Council in Budapest

that they could only save Jews by fully cooperating with you?

How much money does it cost to cooperate with you, Herr Eichmann?

I never took money to release Jews.

I have an account here from Doctor Kastner.

Head of the Jewish Council in Budapest.

Eichmann said, quote:

Kastner!

I've got to clean this Jewish shit out of the provinces!

And no arguments or tears will help!

Don't you worry if all the Hungarian Jews have been gassed.

Just get me the lorries!

I deliver Polish Jews or Czech Jews!

There's a grain of truth in it with a lot of theatrical trimmings,

but even Kastner doesn't mention money.

"Jewish shit in exchange for lorries.”

Yes, those bad words.

I certainly didn't use those bad words.

So lorries were the currency?

Yes, we had a shortage.

Kastner also asked you

to reduce the overcrowding in the forced evacuation

citing the fact that 90 persons

had been crammed into a single rail car designated for 40.

Most of the overfillments were actually small children.

So where would these children have been going?

Dachau.

Captain?

Ya.

Do you have a moment?

Who are you?

I work for The Post

I can't talk to you. I thought I made that clear.

I know about your father.

What do you want?

Your story.

I'm not the headline. Eichmann is.

Is it appropriate for the interrogator of Eichmann

to be the son of one of many gassed at Auschwitz?

Is that your angle?

Yeah.

It's a great story.

Can you prove it?

Captain, we wouldn't have gotten this far with me bluffing.

How did you find out?

Just give me two weeks.

Exclusive?

I want to know everything.

I want "Avner the man”, who he is, what he is,

his family life, his professional life.

Family? No. No.

Do you want the time, Avner?

I need two weeks.

I'll give you one.

Gotta go.

Avner, what can I do for you?

You can stop getting your schlong sucked by journalists, for a start.

Do you really have to go tonight?

You look tired.

Do you ever sleep?

Your children are asking where you are.

I have five more days.

Five.

Was the deportation of the Gypsies to the death camps

handled by your bureau 1V.B4?

Not all the Gypsies. Just the ones from Germany.

All the Gypsies who were apprehended

inside the so-called Greater Reich were taken to Auschwitz and gassed.

Captain, all I know is we had to make

the rolling-stock available and draw up schedules and--

What were the guidelines?

Guidelines?

For exterminating the Gypsies.

The guidelines for the Gypsies were simple.

There weren't any.

So, why exterminate all the Gypsies?

Oh, I don't know.

It was one of those things.

All of a sudden,

the order goes out, and it happens without questions.

A half a million Gypsies rounded up and transported

for special treatment by Bureau 1V.B4.

Just like that.

Some more Nuremberg testimony from Waneck.

"Eichmann came to see Höss at Auschwitz

after Höss received orders

for exterminating the Jews from the Reichsführer.”

I don't know what you mean.

Another condemned man

trying to divert attention from his own position.

This letter is about the production of gas, is it not?

He was always covering his tracks,

because one day he could be held to account.

Did your department 1V.B4 provide any supervisory personnel

for the shipments to the extermination camps of Riga?

I was the transport officer.

I was never consulted when policies were made.

Not according to our findings.

You said you had nothing to do with this.

What is your point, Captain?

What was your attitude towards the total

physical destruction of the Jewish people

and the framework of the so-called Final Solution?

I don't want to avoid responsibility for what I did.

But I am not and have never been an anti-Semite.

Yes?

My dear children,

I am so proud of you all.

That you are sons of mine, of the Fatherland.

Healthy German boys.

Your father is the same father you always had,

but the world has moved on.

And so must we all.

You forgot to wake us up, Daddy.

I'm sorry.

I dressed David and myself.

Well done, Hannah.

Well done.

How are you feeling?

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry I've neglected you.

That man has pushed us apart.

Eaten away at your soul.

No grapes?

I'm kidding.

Peel me an orange, please.

Do you remember the kibbutz orange groves in the evening?

That magic hour after sunset when all the oranges glowed

like a million tiny moons?

Do you remember swimming in the sea?

I remember.

We were carefree then.

Reckless, even.

Then I got ill.

But the next year you were picking oranges.

Yes, because you looked after me.

I'm going to look after you again.

Like when we lived in Haifa.

I won't be picking oranges again.

Yes, you will.

What about Eichmann?

I'm finished with Eichmann.

You've got two more days, you said.

Yes.

Do the two days.

Then it's over.

You must be familiar with the statement

of Bruno Waneck at the Nuremberg Trials.

He said, "On the extermination process,

it transpires that only gas can be considered

because Eichmann has ruled

to eliminate the masses that were to be expected by shooting

is absolutely impossible

and also too hard on the SS men involved,

having to shoot women and children.”

I had nothing, nothing, nothing to do with gassing.

Then, who gave the orders?

The Fuhrer.

Yes.

Heinrich told me that Hitler

had decided on the extermination of the Jews,

and the Fuhrer's wishes were law.

Well, according to Waneck,

"Eichmann occupied a dominant, if not to say absolute position

and was directly responsible to Himmler."

The truth is I was never directly under Himmler.

So Waneck's statement is extremely far-fetched.

It is supported by the Kommandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss.

Yes, well, the rejection of Hose's monstrous lies

is not going to have any effect on my punishment, is it?

It may not be mentioned in the Geneva Convention,

but a little lubricant on the inspection finger

would be most welcome.

[ Speaking in Hebrew ]

This is a chapter of glory in our history

which has never been written and which never shall be written

since we know how hard it would be for us

if we still had the Jews as secret saboteurs--

Poznan, October 4, 1943:

Himmler gave a speech to senior SS officers.

Do you remember his keynote speech on the Jewish question?

I was never told that Himmler made such a speech.

Never. Never. Never.

You see, Captain, it was not necessary to make speeches

about what the Reichsführer believed.

Deep down we knew.

October 1943.

Himmler visits captured Soviet soldiers

waiting to be transported to concentration camps in Riga.

His Reich Deputy, Adolf Eichmann, who was later to escape prosecution--

He's still denying all connections to Himmler.

Why?

Everybody. Please, please listen. Please stop what you're doing.

I need you to find and check all written communication

between Himmler and Eichmann. Now.

Thank you.

I got it.

Well done.

The forced marches of the Jews out of Hungary

between October and December of 1944 are puzzling our researchers.

Still?

There seems to be some ambiguity about your status

and whether or not it was you

who had actually been appointed to complete all this work.

Of course, I was ordered to do it.

The suggestion that it was voluntary is, in any respect,

an insult to me and to anyone who was transported.

An insult.

On October 17th, 1944,

you returned to Budapest to organize the first forced march deportation

of which an estimated 3,000 died during the march itself.

As you can see, Kastner, I'm back.

And I just want to tell you that Germany has passed its low point.

A new weapon is being produced

which the Allies will be powerless against.

Vengeance weapon number three.

In recognition of this fact,

I absolutely need another 70,000 Hungarian Jews.

20,000 pick-and-shovel Jews for the south-east wall in Ostmark

and five separate transports of 10,000 each.

From here to Austria on foot.

Your list.

Heil Hitler.

I don't think, Captain, I don't think many died.

Except that just normally some must have.

And it must have been sad to see civilians

struggling along the last kilometers.

But there was nothing I could do.

I couldn't do a thing.

At the most, I could have said, "Keep your Jews. I don't need them."”

Auschwitz was full to overflowing.

Oh, yes.

That's right, we have transportation orders

from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz signed by you right up to the end.

And of these 50,000 from Hungary who left on foot,

you knew you were sending them to their deaths,

even if they survived the march.

I assure you, Captain,

I had no idea of the suffering.

You had a witness report at the time,

from a group of highly-ranked Germans

of which the Commanding General of the Waffen-SS Jüttner was one.

"When we confronted him at first, Eichmann admitted nothing.

Then after he learned we would write to Himmler,

he withdrew the marching orders.”

That's quite correct.

The marching orders were withdrawn by me.

But one week later the marches recommenced.

Really?

I don't recall that.

Jüttner goes on to say,

"Eichmann, in defiance of Himmler's new orders

to cease the killing of Jews,

decreed once again that all Jews and their children over ten

were to be deported to Auschwitz and Dachau

and the gas chambers.”

That's impossible.

I would never have disobeyed orders.

Here are Himmler's orders, which you disobeyed.

Here are the marching orders signed by you.

All right.

We're through.

Would you make sure the letter is sent to my family, Captain?

Send the letter, Captain, I beg you.

It's not just Dieter.

I am worried what will happen to the little one.

Six years old is too young to lose your father.

Six years old, you say?

He'll be seven soon.

He has a wonderful temperament.

Would you say he's your favorite?

I love them all.

You wish you had more?

Of course.

I love being a father.

I love children.

But you were killing children.

I will miss them.

The same age as your youngest, some younger.

I know, Captain, I admit that, but--

500,000 children in four years!

I know, but--

But what?

But what?

They were Jews.

Hello.

This is our last interview.

I'm being posted to Berlin.

Thank you for not writing about my family.

So Eichmann's been found guilty?

Yes.

Seven months of interrogation, followed by a trial.

Was it worth it?

Let alone the expense to the tax payers.

We showed him more justice than he ever showed us.

This is a day that will go down in history forever.

Adolf Eichmann was executed last night following a state trial.

He was hanged just after midnight.

I was only a humble cog in what was,

admittedly, a highly intimidating machine.

It wasn't my job to be loved.

I had nothing, nothing, nothing to do with gassing.

I was obeying orders.

I've never killed a Jew.

I've never ordered anyone to kill a Jew.

Where could I have got the skulls they wanted?

I might be guilty because I helped with evacuation.

I am not and have never been an anti-Semite.

Hundreds, even thousands of people, have never heard of Eichmann,

and they don't know even what was his fate.

That he was hanged in the end, and there was a trial.

Many people,

and you have among youngsters today all over the world,

if you ask them "Who was Hitler?", there are many who would say,

"Never heard of him."

You see, when you realized what really happened here,

and there were not only six million Jews who were holocausted,

there were many million others.

Eichmann was responsible for their death in the same way.

It has become really a life's work for me,

and it has entirely changed my outlook

on many, many things in life, like believing in a true democracy.

That's the only thing that can save mankind from people like Eichmann.

And there are many -- latently, there are many Eichmanns around.

But Eichmanns can grow, can rise only in a dictatorship,

and a dictatorship, whether from right or left is the same,

but never in a true democracy.

This is why we have to fight for democracy.

To stand up for it.

We should do our very utmost never to have this occur again.

To prevent Eichmanns to rise again.