Resumo

RAS, Marcia. The role of Adolf Eichmann and the Argentine Embassy in Berlin in the deportation of Jews with Argentine citizenship. History and memory. Ciclos hist. econ. soc. [online]. 2023, vol.34, n.60, pp.5-5. ISSN 1851-3735.

Two cases of Adolf Eichmann's direct intervention in the deportation of Jews with Argentinean citizenship are explored. They are Gershon Willner, a naturalised Argentine, and Hans-Peter Mayerhoff, a German Jew who, with the complicity of the Argentinean Embassy in Berlin, claimed to the German authorities he was an Argentine citizen. Both cases were used by the prosecution as grounds for the indictment of Adolf Eichmann during his trial in Jerusalem in 1961. These cases received some coverage in the press and publications in Argentina at the time of the trial. It is argued why the notion of an alleged abandonment of Argentines abroad by Argentinean diplomacy during the Holocaust is incorrect. It then points out how and when this reconfiguration of the past came about to the point that events are evoked today in a diametrically opposed sense to how they happened.

Palavras-chave : Argentine Jews; Holocaust; Adolf Eichmann; Embassy of Argentina.