The Israelis revealed the diary now, when Eichmann's crime is almost forgotten.
Time is the best friend of crime.
Millions dead in the World War II are just numbers, but the short and sad life of Anne Frank is not a number. Fortunately, the new government of Chile and governments of some other countries do not think so. Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess, the rank highest nazi left, had to die in the Berlin prison Spandau just for being what he was, a symbol of the crime. His age had nothing to do with his responsibility. The kind of punishment is not the issue here, but the verdict itself.