Gali Tibbon/Getty Images(JERUSALEM) — Israel has unveiled a new exhibit of previously unreleased documents relating to the Jerusalem trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann, who was convicted for his role in Hitler’s Final Solution in which six million Jews perished and died by a court-ordered hanging in 1962.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin made public for the first time a handwritten letter by Eichmann in a ceremony to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day.

Written in 1962 just two days before his execution, Eichmann pleads for his life, asking for a pardon from then President Yitzcak Ben Tzvi.

He also vehemently refuses to take any responsibility for his role in Hitler’s systematic murder of Jews, writing he was forced to obey orders.

His appeal for clemency was denied; Eichmann remains the only criminal ever sentenced to death by the State of Israel.

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