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On This Day — June 1, 1950
While the ashes of six million murdered Jews were still settling across Europe, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust received a shiny new passport from the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Under the false name Ricardo Klement, Adolf Eichmann — the man who organized the deportation trains to Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other death camps — was handed a ticket to freedom.
He fled to Argentina, lived quietly, worked at a metal factory, and later for a company favored by Nazi-sympathizer President Juan Perón. His family joined him in 1952. For years, he lived openly, unrepentant, while the world moved on.
This was part of the infamous “ratlines.” The Red Cross, elements in the Vatican, and others helped thousands of Nazi war criminals — Franz Stangl (Commandant of Treblinka), Josef Mengele (“Angel of Death”), Klaus Barbie (“Butcher of Lyon”), and many more — escape justice to South America.
Eichmann was finally captured by Mossad in 1960, tried in Israel, and executed on June 1, 1962 — exactly 12 years after that Red Cross passport was issued.
The lesson is clear: When Jews were being hunted and murdered, much of the “civilized” world failed them — and then helped their murderers escape.
This is why Israel must always exist. Jews learned that when the killing starts, “humanitarians” will issue the murderers new passports instead of stopping them.
Israel is the only guarantee that when Jews are hunted, there will be a place for them — and a place that will hunt back.
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