WI Israel captured Josef Mengele in the early 70's?

Instead of evading capture and dying of a stroke in Brazil in '79, he's picked up by Israel at the start of the decade.

Would his trial have overshadowed Eichmann's?
 
There would have been more international coverage for sure, given the tech advances. In some respects Mengele was more evil, at least in that he personally performed many of the atrocious "experiments", personally selected the victims and so forth. Especially in the horrors done to children in things like the twin studies, he had a personal connection to evil and sadism. Eichmann, although he was responsible for many more deaths was, in many ways, a bureaucrat striving for the efficient running of the governmental "machine" he was in charge of - a machine whose product was death.
 
First of all, it's possible he could have been nabbed in the same operation that got Eichmann. The operations' commander Rafi Eitan thought about trying to get Mengele too but didn't want to jeopardize the mission to get Eichmann. Perhaps if circumstances had been different, After Eichmann was captured, he was given a choice between being instant death or being taken to Israel for trial, and he chose trial. If he decided to end it all there, they might have brought back Mengele instead in 1962.

Anyway, without a shadow of a doubt, Mengele would have been convicted and executed. The footage of his trial would have been chilling.
 

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I disagree on Mengele. His was an form of Human Nature we understand, a sadist of the worst kind who enjoyed doing horrible things to children. We can look at him and be sure we are not and never will be like him. Eichman instead is worse far worse, he was a civil servant who really didnt care that much about that judes, but he entered an entrepise that had factorys where children and women were transformed into soap. And do It beacouse he thought that would be a good move "para ascender en el escalafón". I personally found that much, much more, disturbing
 
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I disagree on Mengele. His was an form of Human Nature we understand, a sadist of the worst kind who enjoyed doing horrible things to children. We can look at him and be sure we are not and never will be like him. Eichman instead is worse far worse, he was a civil servant who really didnt care that much about that judes, but he entered an entrepise that had factorys where children and women were transformed into soap. And do It beacouse he thought that would be a good move "para ascender en el escalafón". I personally found that much, much more, disturbing

Obvious evil vs the banality of evil of course.
 
Will both being on trial be any help to Eichmann? "I was just a bureaucrat trying to do my job, nothing like him."

Not at all. The fact that Eichmann didn't personally kill anyone and that he portrayed himself as a mere bureaucrat doing his job didn't save him from a death sentence in OTL. The fact that there was also someone who personally committed these acts will be of no consequence. Eichmann was proved to have knowingly had people deported to their deaths, and it would have still earned him a death sentence.
 
Not at all. The fact that Eichmann didn't personally kill anyone and that he portrayed himself as a mere bureaucrat doing his job didn't save him from a death sentence in OTL. The fact that there was also someone who personally committed these acts will be of no consequence. Eichmann was proved to have knowingly had people deported to their deaths, and it would have still earned him a death sentence.

Charles Manson didn't really seem to be much more endearing than the people he got to do the actual murders he ordered.
 
I'd imagine the trial would be similar to Eichmann and the spectacle would be as well.

However, if he was taken after 1977, with Menachem Begin (who had lost his whole family in the Holocaust, unlike the previous Israeli PMs from the Second Aliyah, and frequently used the topic for rhetorical appeal against European criticism) in power, things would be much different, and I think something more akin to Cersei's walk of shame or a similar equivalent would take place.
 
No walk of shame per se, however there will be survivors in Israel of the twin experiments and other "medical" horrors that Mengele was "hands on" with. They will testify as to what was done to them (or their non-surviving twin). Stalin is quoted as saying "the death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic". The accusations of the mutilated at the man who did these things will be more riveting than the proofs that Eichmann was the brains behind the operation of the Holocaust. In a way, it isn't like the Allies did not, in the course of things, cause a lot of civilian deaths - not to compare "collateral damage" or de-housing with the deliberate selection of entire groups for organized death. It is human nature that there will be more reaction to the man, and the system he represented that sponsored such cruelty.

While nothing will ever stop Holocaust deniers, the evidence of many of ther victims with the physical trauma to display, will make it more difficult to sweep Nazi evil under the rug.
 
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