Some outcomes of the Eichmann case in Argentina and Israel
Abstract
The ink devoted to Argentina as a refuge for an important number of Nazi and collaborationist war criminals on the run contextualizes this approach to certain clarities and darknesses in the diplomatic relations between various countries, mainly Argentina and Israel after the detention in Buenos Aires in May 1960 of one of those most involved in Nazism’s genocide of mainly Jewish victims. Taken to Israel and prosecuted in Jerusalem, Adolf Eichmann was given the death sentence, with different aspects of his capture harming Argentine-Israeli relations. In fact, somewhat of a hiatus –a relatively brief interruption of diplomatic ties– was included among the damage caused by the kidnapping, its smallness becoming noticeable especially when compared with the casus belli put forward by the severest critics of Israel’s infringement of Argentine sovereignty.Downloads
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