“(While playing solitaire and sipping cognac) It's all a lot of crap. The game is up.”

To Adolf Eichmann, about the war, at a mountain villa in Austria. Quoted in "The Last 100 Days" - by John Toland - 1966

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Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany executed for … 1903–1946

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