On May 11, 1960, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who
organized Adolf Hitler’s “final solution of the Jewish question,"
was captured in Argentina. On May 23, Israeli Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion announces to the world that he will stand
trial in Israel.
Rafi Eitan, the Mossad agent who led the Israeli team that captured
Nazi Adolf Eichmann, died at aged 92 in 1919.
SANDY KOZEL
Irish singer Bono (Paul David Hewson) is 65 years old today.
Artist Rob Brun
On December 16, 1944, the Germans launched the last major
offensive of the war, Operation Autumn Mist, also known as
the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, an
attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern
France to northwestern Belgium.
The Battle of the Bulge, so-called because the Germans
created a “bulge” around the area of the Ardennes forest
in pushing through the American defensive line, was the
largest fought on the Western front.
American troops man trenches along a snowy hedgerow in
the northern Ardennes Forest during the Battle.
An American artilleryman shaves in frigid cold, using a
helmet for a shaving bowl.
An American tank moves past another gun carriage which
slid off an icy road in the Ardennes Forest during the
Battle of the Bulge.
Belgian residents of a northern Ardennes hamlet flee the fighting during the
Battle of the Bulge.
Schindler’s List, starring Liam Neeson in the true story of a
German businessman who saves the lives of more than a
thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust, opens in
theaters.
The film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and took
home seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best
Director.
It was the first Best Director win for Spielberg, who had been
nominated in the category for three of his earlier films: 1977’s
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1981’s Raiders of the
Lost Ark and 1982’s E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.
Oskar Schindler (1908 – 1974)
Liam Neeson (72)
Ralph Fiennes as an evil Nazi officer.
Ben Kingsley and Liam Neeson
Steven Allan Spielberg
In Tel Aviv, Israel, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who
organized Adolf Hitler’s “final solution of the Jewish question,
” is condemned to death by an Israeli war crimes tribunal.
He claimed he was just following orders, but the judges
disagreed, finding him guilty on all counts on December
15 and sentencing him to die.
On May 31, 1962, he was hanged near Tel Aviv. His body
was cremated and his ashes thrown into the sea.
