Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, begged for his life in a letter to Israel's president, it has been revealed.
Eichmann insisted he had only followed orders and was not responsible for "the unspeakable horrors" against Jews in a final plea against his death sentence, newly released papers show.
Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis during World War Two.
Israel released the papers on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Eichmann was convicted in Jerusalem and hanged in 1962.
