Manhunt

摘要

Bringing old Nazis to justice was not a priority in the immediate aftermath of 1945. The three Western powers wanted to turn their zones of Germany into the Federal Republic, a functioning cold-war ally. Justice was delayed, denied or tied up in bureaucratic knots. But did that shabby, perhaps shameful compromise justify Israel's action in kidnapping Adolf Eich-mann from Argentina in 1960 and putting him on trial in a country that did not exist at the time when he was planning and executing the Holocaust?