Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 28.07.2024
Jewish Opera Singer David Serero sang the United Arab Emirates and the Zionist anthem in 2020 in honor of the reactionary Abraham Accord. Now, the Jewish Zionist has produced “The Trial of Adolf Eichmann” on Off-Broadway beginning in July 2024 at the Center for Jewish History.
I do not have any problem with a play on Eichmann’s show trial, but why now? Is it not part of the Zionist propaganda in defense of the genocide of the Palestinians by the Zionist state?
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and one of the principal organizers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Following this, he was tasked by SS- Reinhard Heydrich to facilitate and manage the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps.
That he deserved to be hanged, I have no doubt, and so are all who organize the genocide of people, like Netanyahu and Gallant. The trial of Eichmann in 1962 took place while he was in a glass cage. Putting him in a glass cage served two aims. Preventing attacks on him during the trial and controlling what he said. and he had a lot to say about his collaboration with the Zionists.
Judith Butler wrote on the response of Hanna Ardent to the show trial: “By writing about Eichmann, Arendt was trying to understand what was unprecedented in the Nazi genocide – not to establish the exceptional case for Israel, but to understand a crime against humanity, one that would acknowledge the destruction of Jews, Gypsies, gay people, communists, the disabled and the ill. Just as the failure to think was a failure to consider the necessity and value that makes thinking possible. Hence, the destruction and displacement of whole populations was an attack not only on those specific groups but on humanity itself. As a result, Arendt objected to a specific nation-state conducting a trial of Eichmann exclusively in the name of its population” [i]
Not only this but in my opinion, only a trial and punishment by a working-class court can deliver justice to the victims of genocide. Not the courts of the imperialist butchers who won the war nor the court of the Zionist state that in 1947-8 committed 30-40 massacres in the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. A state that, in 1956, participated with British and French imperialism in Egypt as a semi-colony.
After the Allied, mostly imperialist forces defeated imperialist Germany in World War II, Europe became a difficult place to be associated with Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich. Thousands of Nazi officers, high-ranking party members, and collaborators—including many notorious war criminals—escaped across the Atlantic, finding refuge in South America, particularly in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil.
Argentina was already home to hundreds of thousands of German immigrants and maintained close ties to Germany during the war. After 1945, Argentine President Juan Perón, himself drawn to fascist ideologies, enlisted intelligence officers and diplomats to help establish “rat lines,” or escape routes via Spanish and Italian ports, for many in the Third Reich. Also giving aid: the Vatican in Rome, which was seeking to help Catholic war refugees, also facilitated fleeing Nazis. So were the American security services.
“Honest and idealist … enjoys good food and wine … unprejudiced mind”
That’s how a 1952 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) assessment described Nazi ideologue Emil Augsburg, an officer at the infamous Wannsee Institute, the SS think tank involved in planning the Final Solution. Augsburg’s SS unit performed “special duties,” a euphemism for exterminating Jews and other “undesirables” during the Second World War.
Although he was wanted in Poland for war crimes, Augsburg managed to ingratiate himself with the U.S. CIA, which employed him in the late 1940s as an expert on Soviet affairs. Recently released CIA records indicate that Augsburg was among a rogue’s gallery of Nazi war criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence agencies shortly after Germany surrendered to the Allies.”[ii]
Adolf Eichmann was among those who escaped to Latin America: After World War II ended, Eichmann went into hiding in Austria., In Italy, he was given aid by Catholic priests and bishops with pro-Nazi sympathies and reached Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1950. a Franciscan monk in Genoa, Italy, he obtained an Argentine visa and signed an application for a falsified Red Cross passport. In 1950, he boarded a steamship to Buenos Aires under the alias Ricardo Klement. Eichmann lived with his wife and four children in a middle-class Buenos Aires suburb and worked in a Mercedes-Benz automotive plant.
In Argentina, he didn’t make a secret about his past. Eichmann had social ties to other escaped Nazis and even sat down for an extensive interview with a pro-Nazi journalist, to whom he complained that he had made a mistake by not murdering all of Europe’s Jews.
Rumors of Eichmann’s activities in Argentina went to the United States, Europe, and Israel. However, though West German and American intelligence operations received tips on Eichmann, they didn’t follow up on the leads. “It wasn’t the job of the Americans to hunt Nazis,” says Guy Walters, author of Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Quest to Bring them to Justice. “
The Zionist agents of the Mossad intended to capture the “Angel of Death” Josef Mengele, but they received an order at the last minute not to catch him, and instead, they got Eichmann.
Eichmann had many things to tell about his connections with the Zionists, how he helped train young Zionists to work the land, and his secret visit to Palestine as the guest of the Haganah with the help of the German Zionist Federation. Needless to say he was not able to tell it in the glass cage.
Down with the war criminals!
For Palestine, red and free from the river to the sea!
Endnotes:
[i] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/hannah-arendt-adolf-eichmann-banality-of-evil
[ii] https://ips-dc.org/the_cias_worst-kept_secret_newly_declassified_files_confirm_united_states_collaboration_with_nazis/