Germany can keep Eichmann records secret, court rules

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Germany's foreign intelligence agency can keep secret some of its records on Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi known as the architect of the Holocaust, a court ruled on Thursday.

The federal administrative court ruled that the intelligence agency was within its rights to black out passages from the files sought by a journalist attempting to shed light on whether West German authorities knew in the 1950s where Eichmann had fled after the second world war.

Thursday's ruling followed a decision last year in which the court said the Federal Intelligence Service had to release some files it had previously kept secret.

Israeli agents abducted Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1960 and brought him to Jerusalem for trial. Eichmann, who helped organise the extermination of Europe's Jews as the head of the Gestapo's Jewish affairs office during the war, was found guilty of war crimes, sentenced to death and hanged in 1962.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/28/germany-eichmann-holocaust-records-secret

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1. The curious thing is that the cat is already out of the bag.

It's just that people won't listen and care until BILD says it's so.

http://www.gabyweber.com/prozesse_bnd.php

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