This video is of a news clip similar to the one that Nellie describes to Carl in "Nightfather." The reporter mentions Eichmann's capture and that he was "Spirited to Israel." After watching "The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann" in class, we now that he was not spirited, but abducted in an elaborate plan by the Israeli Mossad. Eichmann's trial results in the death penalty for Eichmann. Under normal circumstances, the death penalty is an extreme form of punishment, yet in Eichmann's case it seems to be too little. I shocked myself by thinking that Eichmann deserved much worse than the death penalty for his actions. The reporter remarks that "Eichmann receives justice," but a mere hanging seems to be the least harsh punishment possible. In my opinion, Eichmann should have been made to live, but paranoid and scarred like the survivors of his grotesque killing machine. He deserved to experience the loss and dehumanization that just one of the 6 million people who passed through his evil designs experienced.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125049710
This story describes a Nazi war criminal convicted March 23rd, 2010 for his role in a death squad which is linked to over 54 killings, many of the victims being Dutch civilians. The criminal "was given the maximum sentence of life in prison for the 1944 killings." The maximum sentence! Serving a few of his last years in jail, the man will have access to food, a cell, and clothes that prisoners in the Nazi regime could only dream about. Again, the attempt to bring to justice Nazi war criminals brings up a question. How can people like these, who caused pain worse than death to so many innocents, be punished in a suitable way? Man has not yet found a punishment equivalent to the atrocities committed during the Third Reich, and as a result most Nazi criminal's will get off "lightly," with the most severe penalty being an instant, painless death.
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