Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.

Eichmann replied: "Legally not but in the human sense. The CIA took no action on this information because Eichmann's arrest could embarrass the US and Germany by turning public attention to the former Nazis they had recruited after World War II. Eichmann was given the position of Transportation Administrator of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" which put him in charge of all the trains that would carry Jews to the death camps in the territory of occupied Poland.

He is the only person to have been executed in Israel on conviction by a civilian court. He lived in Argentina under a false identity working a succession of different jobs until 1960.