Israel’s Justice Ministry said Tuesday it would release the memoirs Adolf Eichmann wrote while awaiting execution in Israel in 1962. A ministry official said the 1,300 pages of handwritten notes would be released at the “earliest opportunity,” and would include background and commentary. Critics of the move have maintained that the memoirs would be misused by Holocaust deniers.
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