Whats it like for a German with a Jewish wife to play the Nazi Adolf Eichmann?
Thread your way through the drunks, beggars and political protesters on the southern edge of central Budapest and you find a fortress-like building huddled down a crumbling back street. This is Hungary’s shiny new Holocaust memorial museum, wrapped around a synagogue and guarded by airport-style security gates, presumably against neo-Nazi attack. Old habits die hard in this corner of Europe. Inside is a moving audiovisual record of the obscene, grotesque, industrialised genocide inflicted on Hungary’s Jewish and Gypsy populations by Nazi Germany in the latter stages of the Second World War. So systematic was the so-called Final Solution by this point that one in ten victims of the entire Holocaust, and one in three of those sent to Auschwitz, was forcibly deported from Hungary. The man responsible for their fate was the oddly nondescript SS Transport Administrator, Otto Adolf Eichmann. This high-ranking Nazi escaped justice when the war ended and fled to Argentina, where he lived incog
