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After 10 weeks of open trial, after testimony by 110 witnesses, the piling up of a record 2,000,000 words and the submission of some 1,400 documents, the prosecution of Case No. 40/61–the Attorney ...
This rebroadcast originally aired on July 15, 2022. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, was tried in Israel. Writer Hannah Arendt attended ...
Hessian State Attorney General Fritz Bauer announced here today that testimony to be given in Israel by Adolf Eichmann may affect war crimes charges made here against Dr. Hans Globke, right-hand man ...
On April 11, 1961, the trial of former-Nazi Karl Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem, Israel. During the Holocaust, Eichmann was responsible for coordinating the deportation of Jews from Germany and ...
On April 11, 1961, the trial of former-Nazi Karl Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem, Israel. During the Holocaust, Eichmann was responsible for coordinating the deportation of Jews from Germany and ...
Jake Paltrow’s soul-searching “June Zero” starts in 1961 Israel with reports that Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann has been sentenced to death. Eichmann was found guilty of crimes against the Jewish ...
The identity of the hangman who executed Adolf Eichmann in 1962 was kept secret for three decades. By the time Shalom Nagar’s name was unearthed by Israeli journalists, Nagar had retired from Israel’s ...
Consider it a disquieting sign of the times that "Operation Finale" possesses more cathartic resonance than it might have a few years ago, simply by offering a reminder of the horrors of Nazism. A ...
“If we had killed 10.3 million Jews I would say with satisfaction, ‘Good, we destroyed an enemy.’ Then we would have fulfilled our mission. And thus, to my regret, it was not to be.” An ...
The banality of evil. Hannah Arendt's famous observation during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the ‘architect of the Holocaust.’ There's new... The Eichmann tapes and the comforting myth of the ...