Weekly Kibbitz
Americans subscribed to Amazon Prime Video
his recordings to LIFE Magazine, which
can now listen to never-before-heard record-
published excerpts from the tapes.

ings of Adolf Eichmann confessing to his crimes,
The Israeli Supreme Court did not approve
in his own voice.

of the transcripts as evidence, requiring the
“The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann
prosecution to rely instead on other forms of
Tapes” is a three-part documentary series that
documentation to convict Eichmann, and the
combines interviews from Holocaust survivors,
content of the rest of the tapes remained a
key witnesses at the Eichmann trial, historians
mystery for decades.

and experts on the Holocaust with re-enact-
Secured in the German Federal Archives,
ments of the historical events.

they were untouched until 2020, when Yariv
The series, which first aired on Israel’s Kan
Mozer and Kobi Sitt, the fi lmmakers behind
In a scene from “The Devil’s Confession,” someone sets up the
News public broadcaster last year, tells the
“The Devil’s Confession,” were granted
recorder to listen to a tape.

story of Adolf Eichmann’s role in orchestrat-
access in order to begin production for the
ing the Final Solution during the Holocaust.

fi lm.

Eichmann, whom Israel executed in 1962, spent the Final Solution, and often carried out his duties
“This is proof against Holocaust deniers and a
much of his trial maintaining that he was a mere with enthusiasm.

way to see the true face of Eichmann,” Mozer told
bureaucrat following orders.

In just the fi rst episode, Eichmann can be heard The New York Times in July. “With all modesty,
But the 28 hours of taped confessions, which saying, “I didn’t even care about the Jews that I through the series, the young generations will get
were recorded in 1957 in interviews with Nazi deported to Auschwitz. I didn’t care if they were alive to know the trial and the ideology behind the Final
journalist and propagandist Willem Sassen while or already dead.”
Solution.” ■
the two were living in Buenos Aires after the war,
After Eichmann’s capture in Argentina by the
— Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA
clearly indicate that Eichmann, in fact, coordinated Mossad in 1960, Sassen sold the transcripts of
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