Nazi Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann who was executed by Israel back in 1962 for numerous war crimes, considered himself “a mere instrument in the hands of the [Nazi] leaders,” a letter to the then-president asking for clemency reveals.
The information was released on Wednesday by the office of Israel's President Reuven Rivlin. The documents will be officially made public at a ceremony at Rivlin's official Jerusalem residence at International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The request of one of the masterminds of the ‘Final Solution’, a German plan for the extermination of the Jews during World War II, was made to then president Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.
"There is a need to draw a line between the leaders responsible and the people like me forced to serve as mere instruments in the hands of the leaders," Eichmann’s letter says, as cited by Times of Israel.
Eichmann, one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich, wrote that he "was not a responsible leader, and as such do not feel myself guilty."
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