Comments on: Monday, briefly https://www.yourish.com/2011/04/11/14010 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:40:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Soccerdad https://www.yourish.com/2011/04/11/14010/comment-page-1#comment-43669 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:40:59 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=14010#comment-43669 Back in 1983, Commentary excerpted Avner Less’s account of his interrogation of Eichmann. There’s one incident that still amazes me.

There is unexpected drama in the relationship between the police captain and his prisoner. Eichmann respected his interrogator while trying to save his own neck. He felt that one uniform was speaking to another, that rank had its privileges, even for a prisoner. The reader watches for the cat-and-mouse interplay. When Captain Less tells him that his father had been deported to Auschwitz by Eichmann’s own headquarters, Eichmann opens his eyes wide and cries out: ”But that’s horrible, Herr Captain! That’s horrible!”

Was he that clueless?

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