“Now through the vagaries of fortune, most of these 10.3 million Jews remained alive, so I say to myself: fate wished it so. I have to subordinate myself to fate and destiny. I am just a little man and don't have to fight against this, and I couldn't, and I don't want to.”

— Adolf Eichmann

Argentina Audiotapes (1957)

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German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer 1906–1962

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