Trivia

Author of the source 1975 non-fiction book of the same name, Isser Harel, was an Israeli master spy who directed the capture of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1960. He was the first director of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency. Later, he was one of the founders of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency. He was its director from 1952 to 1963.

In the years following the events shown in Hannah Arendt (2012), Hannah Arendt's portrait of Adolf Eichmann in "Eichmann in Jerusalem" (1963) as a ''bureaucrat'', who only did his job without taking any responsibility for the consequences, can now be rejected by historians. Tape recordings of Eichmann bragging about his mass-murder exist that leave no doubt anymore about his strong anti-semitic motivation and personal enthusiasm to commit genocide. Arendt's failure at the time was, that she believed Eichmann's deceptive self-defense in the Jerusalem court too much, which turned out to be a lie. Further proof for Eichmann's strong anti-semitism is also presented by witness Benjamin Murmelstein in The Last of the Unjust (2013). Based on these additional sources, philosopher Bettina Stangneth created a much more accurate portrait in "Eichmann before Jerusalem. The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer" (2011).

Adolf Eichmann was not particularly well-known as a Nazi outside of Germany until his escape from capture after the end of World War II. Prior to Eichmann's capture and trial, which brought focus to his responsibility in transporting victims to the camps, the man most associated with being "architect of the Final Solution" was Reinhard Heydrich who had been previously assassinated during the war.

The ''Garibaldi Street'' of this feature's title refers to the address where Nazi War Criminal Adolph Eichmann was living at in Argentina in 1960. The Garibaldi Street address is also mentioned in dialogue in the later version of this story [See: Operation Finale (2018)].

For a later interpretation of this story, one might care to watch Operation Finale (2018), which also depicts the same undercover mission to find and extract Adolf Eichmann from Argentina and bring him to trial in Israel. Showing the background of an operation sanctioned by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, the film gives a glimpse of the complexity of Adolf Eichmann's character, his futile attempts to justify his actions and tell his side of the story.