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Berlin, Apr.6 (ANI): Newly declassified recordings have revealed that Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief organizers of the Holocaust in Germany, regretted not killing more Jews during the second world war.

Eichmann was responsible for managing the logistics of transporting Jews to concentration camps. He said the biggest ‘mistake’ he made was not murdering all of them.

The German news magazine Der Spiegel recently discovered the tapes after the country’s intelligence service released 4500 files on Eichmann, which are now located in the German Federal Archive in Koblenz.

Eichmann fled to Buenos Aires in the 1950s to escape justice. There he met two journalists with Nazi connections in the city who regularly interviewed him and recorded his statements.

Using the alias Ricardo Klement during the interviews, Eichmann gave an account of things that happened during the war.

His account contradicts the defence he used at his war crimes trial in 1961 in Israel, according to which he was only following orders and was a small part of the Nazi machine.

In the tapes, however, he boasts that he was a part of the decision- making process

“I didn’t just take orders. If I had been that kind of person, I would have been a fool. I was part of the thinking process, I was an idealist,” The Daily Mail quoted him as saying.

Eichmann also appears to take pride in the state sponsored genocide that killed almost six million Jews.
Eichmann was hung in Israel in 1962 for committing crimes against humanity. (ANI)