The Author of the Final Solution: 'Operation Finale' Tells True Story of the Capture of Adolf Eichmann
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- And this next storyfollows Jewish Nazi hunters
sent out to find and capturea former S.S. officer.
It's based on a true story.
Here's your Studio 5 first look
at the film Operation Finale.
- Hold it up, straight up.
- [Narrator] That'sfilmmaker Christopher White
at work directing Operation Finale.
It's a real-life historicaldrama shot in Argentina.
- We have our guy, it's Adolf Eichmann.
- Let's go.
- This is a country full of ex-Nazis,
- They're all over the city.
- Start the engine.
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- Adolf Eichmann wasless famous than Hitler
but equally lethal and horrifica figure in the holocaust.
- I'm offering you a fair trial.
- You want me to stand trialin place of an entire regime?
- Eichmann used to say I wasa small cog in the machine
but actually he was the machine.
- He was a very ambitious,manipulative person,
and the extent of his crimes are
not covered just by someonewho followed orders.
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- What compels me to play Adolf Eichmann
is the true story of thecapturing of a monster
and honoring all that monster's victims.
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- Eichmann, the architectof the holocaust,
has been found, a call comes into
the Mossad that he is in Argentina.
A group is assembledto go to Buenos Aires.
I played Peter Malkin, who wrote a book
called Eichmann in my Hands.
- If it is him, we need an elite crew.
- I'm not joining your hit squad.
- I play Rafi Eitan who was a Mossad agent
and organized the team of people who
went to extract Eichmann.
- Is this about the(inaudible) thing because
to be honest I've read maybe70 percent of the brief.
- No it is not.
- Okay good because it'smore like 30 percent.
Finale.
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- Aharoni's out there nowrunning reconnaissance
in Buenos Aires withour guy at the embassy.
Our contact's daughter, Sylvia Hermann,
has agreed to take us toKlaus Eichmann's family home.
If it is Eichmann, they will attempt
to get a positive photo ID.
- Why didn't you ask me?
Aharoni's an interrogator.
- Precisely, I wanted someone who would
interrogate the evidencerather than just shoot at it.
This is strictly catch and extract.
- Raf, if it is him, a bullet
would be easier than dragging him here.
- Eichmann will standtrial here in Israel.
- Trial? Nobody needs tohear what he has to say.
- The prime minister disagrees.
A trial will help put all of this to bed.
After all, not everyone's as emotionally
balanced as you are.
Peter, it isn't about you okay?
- Okay, I'm in.
- Everybody from the teamhas a major job to do.
- If you're feeling any kind of
danger whatsoever, you get out.
- Of course, nothing wentexactly how they wanted.
- Polizia.
- Hide him, quickly.
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- The search for him, the hunt for him,
the terrible risks involved.
- We have to warn the others, let's go.
- All of this is absolutely thrilling.
- Do you recognize theman in this picture?
- I can't see him clearly.
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- The man in this picture is you.
S.S. number 45381, am I correct?
Again, your number was 45381.
Your number was 45381, 45381, 45381.
- It was four-five-three-two-six.
Enough, I accept my fate.
My name is Adolf Eichmann.
- Operation Finale is in theaters today,
an excellent movie.
Stay with us, there's much more
CBN Newswatch coming up,
and it's coming up right after this.
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It is time now for your Wednesday's Word,
and today's word is a very personal one.
It comes from BeatriceGraham, my grandmother.
Growing up, she would often tell me:
what's done done, done done.
In her black southern phrasing,
it may not make sense to you,
but here's the bottomline of that sentiment
and the lesson she was teaching me.
What's already happenedhas already happened.
You can't change the past.
So stop wasting time trying to live in it.
Press forward and keep moving.
I share that word with you today
because it is Beatrice Graham's birthday
and she can probably say thattoday she is 100 years old.
Happy birthday, Grandma, you are
and always will be my personal hero.
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Goodbye and God bless.
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