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?
Would his trial have overshadowed Eichmann's?
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
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.
Charles Manson didn't really seem to be much more endearing than the people he got to do the actual murders he ordered.
Will both being on trial be any help to Eichmann? "I was just a bureaucrat trying to do my job, nothing like him."