Quotation from Adolf Eichmann “Had I been a Jew, I would have been a fanatical Zionist” — Sep. 10 1961
As a bona fide Nazi, Adolf Eichmann admired Zionism as a means of voluntary emigration for European Jews, before taking part in the next step, the “Final Solution”.
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"I had the chance to take a trip to Palestine. We were most interested in the Palestine emigration, and I wanted to find out at what point the new Jewish state in Palestine might be set up. Unfortunately' Palestine was then in turmoil, and the British turned down my application for an extended stay. I did see enough to be very impressed by the way the Jewish colonists were building up that country. I admired their desparate will to live. The more so since I was myself an idealist. In the years that followed I often said to Jews with whom I had dealings that, had I been a Jew, I would have been a fanatical Zionist. I could not imagine being anything else. In fact, I would have been the most ardent Zionist imaginable.
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