He alerted German authorities who relayed the information to Israeli authorities but no serious action was taken. The Hermann family had moved to another part of Argentina when, in 1957, a newspaper report mentioning Adolf Eichmann led Lothar Hermann to make a connection between the war criminal and the boy that his daughter once dated. (Note: Historically, events didn’t happen in that order. Adolf Eichmann (Ben Kingsley) and Peter Malik (Oscar Isaac) in “Operation Finale” | Image credit: Netflix From a distance, the Mossad agent attempts to surreptitiously take a photo of Eichmann when he steps out on the porch.īack in Israel, authorities are convinced that they have proof that Klement is Eichmann and proceeds to organize a team with the mission of kidnapping Eichmann and bringing him back to Israel to stand trial. Klaus, arriving unexpectedly, addresses Ricardo as “Father” in Sylvia’s presence. Her mission: To assure the identity of Ricardo Klement. In Argentina, with a Mossad agent and an embassy man nearby, Sylvia knocks on the front door of the Eichmann residence. He alerted authorities who brought up the matter with Israeli intelligence which, at best, is skeptical. He emigrated to Argentina in 1938 and raised Sylvia a Catholic to escape persecution. It turns out Sylvia’s blind father, Lothar Hermann, is Jewish and had escaped the Dachau concentration camp. His family lives in Buenos Aires with Ricardo Klement, an uncle. He gets invited to dinner and he regales his girlfriend’s blind father with stories about his SS father who, he claims, had died. A German boy named Klaus Eichmann meets and starts dating a girl named Sylvia. Operation Finale is a story about how Eichmann’s identity was discovered and how a team of Mossad agents captured him and flew him back to Israel to undergo trial.īuenos Aires, 1960. Eichmann settled in the country as “Ricardo Klement”. In 1950, armed with a forged ID and fake Red Cross passport, he arrived in Argentina which, under Peron, had become a haven for Nazi war criminals.
Eichmann avoided capture and relocated frequently hiding out in monasteries. Those captured were tried in Nuremberg for war crimes.
After he came to power, he put his anti-Semitic plans into play and one of the major players in the operation was Adolf Eichmann.Īt the end of World War II, many high-ranking Nazi officials, including Hitler, committed suicide to avoid capture. It was already well-entrenched when he was born, he just assimilated it. Why did Hitler hate the Jews so much? He did not invent anti-Semitism.
OPERATION FINALE TRIAL
Netflix’s Operation Finale tells the story about the capture, trial and execution of Adolf Eichmann, the “Architect of the Holocaust”, and raised one question after another.
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