The capture, trial, and execution of Adolf Eichmann is a profound moment for the processing of historical trauma. One of the architects of the Holocaust, the Nazi leader was so driven by hate and a murderous desire to exterminate the Jewish people that a fellow Nazi testified at the Nuremberg Trials that Eichmann once said if he should die he would “leap laughing into the grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction.”

Jake Paltrow’s new Israeli drama “June Zero” shows how infinitely more complex the feelings in Israel were around the time of the conviction and execution in 1962. The nation’s intelligence forces had located him in Argentina and captured him two years earlier without the authorization of the Argentine government, which had looked the other way to Nazis settling there following the end of World War II.