The Capture of Adolf Eichmann and his Trial in 10 Minutes

Everything Jewish - 10 Minutes at a Time · Oct 28, 2026 · 10m

For fifteen years after the fall of Berlin, the chief architect of the Holocaust's logistics lived quietly in suburban Buenos Aires under the alias Ricardo Klement, believing he had successfully slipped into history's shadows. That illusion shattered on May 11, 1960, when Mossad operatives snatched Adolf Eichmann off a dark Argentine street in a daring, covert snatch-and-grab mission code-named Operation Garibaldi, smuggling him to Israel to face justice. Enclosed inside a bulletproof glass booth in Jerusalem, the man who coordinated the deportation of millions to death camps claimed he was…