Nazi SS Officer Adolf Eichmann, Architect of the Holocaust: Prosecutor

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One of the major organisers of the Holocaust, former Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann spent more than a decade in hiding before being tracked down in Argentina.
In 1961, Eichmann was put on trial in Jerusalem for charges including crimes against humanity.
Gabriel Bach was a young Israeli lawyer at the time and was chosen as one of the prosecutors in a trial attracting worldwide attention. He spoke to Witness about the testimonies that stay with him to this day.

- Eichmann Trial Anniversary Brings Prosecutor To Face Lost Childhood
https://www.timesofisrael.com/eichmann-trial-anniversary-brings-prosecutor-to-face-lost-childhood/



- Eichmann in 1942.

- The Eichmann Trial, 50 Years Later, NPR, 2011

Fifty years ago one of the world's most notorious war criminals sat in a courtroom for a trial that would be among the first in history to be completely televised. That man was Adolf Eichmann — and he had been in charge of transporting millions of European Jews to death camps. A year before the 1961 trial, Eichmann had been abducted by Israeli agents while he was living in Argentina. The trial captivated millions of people. And it was the first time many of them — including Israelis-- even learned about the details of the Holocaust.
Now Deborah Lipstadt, renowned historian and professor of religion and holocaust studies at Emory University has written a new account of the trial. She tells All Things Considered weekend host Guy Raz that the Eichmann trial was different from any other war crimes trial because it featured the stories of Holocaust survivors and captured the emotions that weren't a part of the document-heavy Nuremberg Trials, which took place more than a decade earlier.

- Survivors Stand Up: "There was a march of survivors, I would say approximately 100 survivors, who came into the witness box and told the story of what happened to them. And people watched them and listened to them and heard them in a way they hadn't heard them before," Lipstadt says. Hearing the voices of survivors wasn't the only aspect of the trial that shook the audience; seeing Eichmann was unnerving as well. This man, who most Israelis considered one of the greatest murderers of all time, appeared so normal.
"People were amazed because he looked much more like a bureaucrat, like a pencil pusher, [with] thick black glasses, an ill-fitting suit, a man who laid out all his papers and his pens and kept polishing his glasses with a nervous tick," she says. Lipstadt says people asked themselves, could this really be the person responsible for the destruction of millions? But Eichmann's testimony, says Lipstadt, illustrated not only that he was guilty, but how "enthusiastic" he was about carrying out his orders...More, https://www.npr.org/2011/03/27/134821325/the-eichmann-trial-fifty-years-later

- Wiki, Adolf Eichmann, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann

- Witnesses of the Eichmann Trial in Israel, 1961 (In English) - the Spielberg Jewish Film Archive 1999

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1. Adolf Eichmann....

Spitting image of Stephen Miller.

[RobertDevereaux]

2. Here are all of Deborah Lipstadt's books...

https://www.amazon.com/Deborah-E-Lipstadt/e/B000APZVQS/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

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5. Thanks for thse resources, Lipstadt's work is excellent.

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3. Capture of Eichmann, 'Ricardo Klement' in Argentina By Mossad Agents, 1960:

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CBS News, Eichmann capture and trial.



Red Cross passport for 'Ricardo Klement' used by Eichmann to enter Argentina in 1950.

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4. He looked like a bureaucrat because that's what he was.

One of his main concerns was scheduling trains.

However, he knew exactly where those trains were going and who they were carrying. He had taken the minutes of the Wannsee Conference, where Reinhard Heydrich et al planned the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question".

[Nitram]

6. Excellent video. Moving.