,
.
Eichmann's Arrest Focuses 'Attention Anew on
,
Mass Murders of Jews Committed by the Nazis
. Yad Vashem, Gathers Mass of Data
ie
0
that portion of the evidence
According to the London
would be heard in a secret Daily Mail, Eichmann did not at
session. No photographs of first know that his captors were
Eichmann either before or Jewish and thought he had been
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during the trial will be per- arrested by local" police. 'The -
Jewish question—the mass ex-
mitted.
A
hushed,
almost
incredulous
termination
of
European
Jewry
capture would have been made
W
z Knesset (Parliament) heard the —Eichmann had direct and per-
Yad Vashem, the central much sooner, the paper said,
agency for collection of data on "hut the Israelis wanted him
announcement. For a moment, sonal responsibility for the ex-
the extermination of European alive and passed up several op-
,u; there was silence in the chain- termination of hundreds of
Jewry, rushed preparation of portunities for fear he would
ber. Then there was a burst of thousands of men, women and
W wild a p p 1 a u s e. Ben-Gurion's children.
materials on Eichmann for the kill himself."
"'A
indictment. One of the docu-
,.., promise that Eichmann will be Eichmann was born in 1907
The story did not name the
IVI
ments, it was disclosed, was the country in which Eichmann had
0 tried under the law providing in the German Templar colony
original handwritten confession been found and captured.
1:4 for trials of Nazis and Nazi col- of Sarona, in then Turkish-held
of SS Major Dieter Wisclieczny,
Ei
W laborators was not lost on the Palestine, and learned to speak
who was Eichmann's assistant, Eichmann Adjutant Krumey
0 House. Capital punishment has Hebrew, Yiddish and Arabic
which describes Eichmann's war Arrested in Frankfurt
.
W been outlawed in Israel—except fluently. His family moved to
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
crimes in detail. The SS major
Cg for "crimes against the Jewish Austria when he was a young
to The Jewish News)
was executed for war crimes.
Es, people". and for crimes "against man, and he became active in
BONN—Herman Krumey, who
humanity." Thus E i c h m a n n the Nazi movement there. When
Suggestions were heard that served as adjutant to Nazi mas-
faces the possibility of a death the Austrian government out-
former Attorney General Haim ter war criminal Adolf Eich-
ADOLF EICHMANN
sentence if convicted. lawed the Nazi Party, Eichmann
Cohen, who recently was named mann, was arrested in Frank-
The capture of Eichmann and joined the Gestapo as an espion- Company reports that the Nazi Supreme Court Justice, should furt Wednesday for the third
the promised trial hit all of Is- age agent and became a special- had been found in Latin Amer- be named president of the dis- time on charges of murder com-
rael as one of the most sensa- ist in Jewish affairs, serving as ica. (British newspapers said trict court which will try Eich- mitted during the Nazi regime.
tional events in many years. At special aide on Jewish matters Tuesday Eichmann had been mann. Justice Cohen, who ap- He was released on each prior
a special meeting of the Cabi- to Reinhardt Heydrich, -com- living in Argentina.)
peared for the state in the 1958 arrest.
net, Ben-Gurion is understood mander of the Gestapo.
Kastner-Gruenwald trial, is con-
The Frankfurt prosecutor's
The
Ministry
of
Justice,
ac-
to have revealed to the mem-
sidered the Israel jurist most office was reported Wednesday
As a Gestapo agent, Eich-
bers of the Cabinet some details mann was largely responsible cording to reports, is preparing familiar with the Nazi extermi- to be considering a request for
in connection with the capture for bringing together the fugi- the indictment to be filed nation program. Dr. Israel Kast- extradition of Eichmann after
of Eichmann which he had not tive Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj against the Nazi hatchet-man. ner, who was assassinated near his trial in Israel. A spokesinan
It was not clear Tuesday his home in Israel in March for the prosecutor's office told
mentioned in his Knesset an- Amin el Husseini, and Nazi
nouncement. All that has been leaders. This resulted it the whether Eichmann would be 1957, was accused by Malkiel the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
revealed publicly thus far is formation of a Moslem Division accused of mass murders or of Gruenwald of collaboration with that a warrant for Eichmann's
that Eichmann was not under recruited by the Mufti, to fight a "crime against the Jewish peo- the Nazis in wartime Hungary. arrest, issued by a Frankfurt
arrest anywhere 'else outside with the Nazis against the Al- ple." Either charge or both
The Israel Supreme Court court in 1956, was still valid.
Israel, and that he was not lies. After his escape from Ger- would be possible under the exonerated Dr. Kastner posthu-
It was indicated that the
brought here through extradi- many, Eichmann was reported law for the punishment of Nazis mously of the charges in 1958 prosecutor's office plans to send
and
Nazi
collaborators.
Both
in-
tion proceedings.
and
found
Gruenwald
guilty
of
in Egypt, where he was active
staff members to Israel to at-
having libelled Dr. Kastner. The tend the Eichmann trial.
Minister of Justice Pinhas in recruiting former Nazis for volve the death penalty.
(Eichmann's
murderous
in-
Kastner case is expected to
Rosen revealed that ,Eichmann service against Israel. He was
The West German government
has already been brought for subsequently reported at vari- tents are described at consid- figure substantially in the Eich- indicated the possibility of a
a hearing before a magistrate at ous other points in the Middle erable length in Joel Brand's mann trial.
bid to extradite Eichmann was
Jaffa. At the hearing, he ad- East, and also in Argentina. • His story, "Desperate M i s s i o n,"
highly unlikely because no ex-
Britain
Not
Involved
which
was
published
by
Cri-
mitted his identity and asked wife and three children were
tradition agreement exists be-
Affair
whether he will be permitted to reported living in Prague, terion Books (257 4th, N.Y. 10) In Eichmann
tween
the two countries. The
(Direct
JTA
Teletype
Wire
in 1958. Brand was involved in
obtain his own defense coun- Czechoslovakia.
to The Jewish
)
spokesman added that the Bonn
sel. He was assured, according When the Nazi regime set up the notorious case of Raoul LONDON—A British Foreign government was "highly grati-
to Rosen, that he would be al- a "Central Bureau for Jewish (Israel) Kastner, who was ac- Office spokesman said Wednes- fied" that Eichmann had finally
lowed to defend himself prop- Emigration" in Vienna, to or- cused of having collaborated day that Britain is "in no way been caught, "and we see no
erly. It is believed that he may ganize the rounding up and de- with the Nazis and who later involved" in the Eichmann af- reason to help him."
try to obtain an attorney from portation of Austrian Jews, was assassinated in I s r a e 1. fair. He said, however, that the
Members of the. opposition
some country outside Israel. Eichmann was put in charge. He Brand at first testified against department's legal experts were Social Democratic Party have
Kastner
in
the
libel
suit
considering
the
implication
of
Rosen said Eichmann will be later performed similar services
demanded that Eichmann be
permitted to retain foreign in Prague and in Berlin. When brought by Mihail Greenwald, the issue should it appear that tried in West Germany or that
counsel if he wants to do so. the Nazi powers agreed on the and later defended him. In his the Nazi war criminals now in an official West German ob-
"He is being kept under clos- "final solution" — the examina- book, Brand tells how Eich- Israeli hands had been captured server be sent to the trial in
est guard," Rosen stated, but tion of the Jews — Eichmann mann offered to save as many in a British protectorate, such Israel.
he declined to reveal the place was given command ,of the Di- as a million Jews in exchange as Kuwait,. Bahrein or other
Fritz Schaeffer, West German
of Eichmann's confinement or vision IV B .4 of the Gestapo for money and for trucks to be Persian Gulf principalities.
Justice Minister, said Tuesday
used
against
the
Allies.
Eich-
any details about how , when the agency entrusted with the
The spokesman noted that that it would be "preferable"
mann is described by Brand in foreign
and where he was apprehended task.
nationals in these lands, that Eichmann be tried in a
"Desperate
Mission"
as
having
and arrested. "He looks quite
The capture of Eichmann
like British subjects, are under West German court. He said his
had
"an
unshakable
faith
in
healthy," the Minister added. was ascribed Tuesday to the
the jurisdiction of the Queen's ministry would like to question
"He has not yet indicated the thirst for revenge of an un- Hitler's racial theories" and as Courts. Adolf Eichmann pre- Eichmann who could be a key
type of defense he intends to identified Jew, whose wife having believed all the fairy sumably would come under this witness in forthcoming trials of
enter. His charge sheet is being and children were deported tales spread about the Jews.) classification, since only the defendants in the murders com-
drafted so as to speed his trial. to the gas chambers, where Trial May Be Delayed
local Arabs are subject to trial mitted at the Auschwitz death -
The detention order was issued they perished, under Eich-
camp.
The possibility that the trial in the local rulers' -tribunals.
at Jaffa. He will be indicted for mann's orders.
of Eichmann will not take place
Official British circles were
`crimes against the Jewish peo-
The Nazi's nemesis, it was re- for several months was suggest- said to be satisfied that Israel
ple.' "
ported, vowed to spend the rest ed Tuesday night by Joseph - not reveal the site of • Eich-
Asked what form of execu- of his life in hunting down Eich- Nachmias, Inspector General of mann's capture because of the
tion Eichmann would face, if mann and bringing him to ret- Police, who told a midnight complications that might arise.
convicted, R o s e n replied: ribution. Six months ago, he got press conference that five high
Special to The Jewish News
The Foreign Office spokes-
NEW YORK — Max Bressler,
"Presumably, he would be onto Eichmann's trail and noti- police officials have been man said Wednesday that Israel
hanged." However, the Minis- fied the Israeli authorities. He named to handle the pretrial had not requested alit' docu- of Chicago, prominent Zionist
ter said he would prefer not dogged the Nazi's footsteps un- investigation. He said this may ments in the possession of the leader who is playing a major
to discuss, as yet, the possible til the moment came to signal take months rather than weeks. British authorities in Germany role in Israel Bond campaigns,
sentence for Eichmann. "I his capture.
Abraham Selinger, the Ger 7 which might have a bearing on is slated to be the next presi-
want to avoid prejudicing the
man-born head of the Northern the case. He told questioners dent of the Zionist Organization
. . _
case," he stated, "in spite of Eichmann Reported to Have
District Police, formerly head that the British government had of America.
From all current indication's,
whatever feelings prevail in Been Living in Argentina
of
the
criminal
investigation
de-
no
additional
•
information
con-
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
regard to the man."
partment of police headquarters, cerning the place and date of Bressler has the edge on all
to The Jewish News)
other candidates.
Eichmann had been the ob-
TEL AVIV— Israel authori- has _been named head of a spe- Eichmann's apprehension.
Others currently in the- run-
ject of a worldwide search ever ties maintained the strictest se- cial investigatoin group to pre-
The London Daily Mail said ning
for the high ZOA office,
since he escaped from an Amer- crecy Tuesday as to where pare the indictment.
Wednesday that West Ger- to succeed
Abraham Redelheim,
ican camp at Regensburg, Ger- Adolf Eichmann had been cap-
Nachmias disclosed that Eich- man authorities had cooperat-
many, after the collapse of the tured, but disclosed that the Is- mann was alone in a cell except ed with Israel security forces are Rabbi Max Nussbauth, of
Nazi regime in 1945. A reward raeli security forces had not for an unarmed warden who is in effecting the capture of Hollywood, Calif., and Dr. Mor- _
ton Robbins, Massachusetts Zi-
of $20,000 for information lead- been aided by the intelligence maintaining a 24-hour watch. Eichmann.
(Mist leader.
ing to the arrest of Eichmann forces of any other country in He declined to comment wheth-
The newspaper, in a -dispatch
Bressler appears to have . the
has been a standing offer here locating the fugitive.
er the job of the warden was from its Haifa correspondent,
for a number of years. The re-
It• was indicated that some to keep Eichmann from a sui- said that the West Germans support of many of the ZOA
ward offer was posted by the prize money would be given to cide attempt. Like all other had cooperated with the Israelis national leaders.
The ZOA convention will .be
Jewish Documentation Center, the men directiy involved in the prisoners in Israeli jails, Eich- in spreading a repeirt that Eich-
which collects the records Of capture of Eichmann. A $20,000 mann is getting kosher food, he mann was in Kuwait so as to held in New York in mid-Aug-
ust.
Jews exterminated during the reward for information leading said.
flush him out of hiding. The
(Jack Fishbein, editor of the
Nazi holocaust and of Nazis re- to Eichmann's apprehension had
The police official also dis- ruse worked, the paper said.
sponsible for the mass murder been offered by the Yad Vash- closed that the circumstances Eichmann sent word of his new Chicago Jewish Sentinel, in an
em.
of Jews.
of the Nazi war criminal's secret address to his wife in editorial in his last week's is-
As the chief "expert" on
In the face of the govern- tracing and capture and the Austria and to some of his sue, advised Bressler not to ac- •
Jewish affairs in the Gestapo, ment's tight-lipped silence on name of the country where "closest associates in Germany cept the ZOA presidency on the
the Nazi secret police, and as the place and circumstances of he was seized, would never by special code. The Israeli ground of his being needed to
head of the special department Eichmann's capture, consider- be published. He said that if secret service was tipped off serve local educational projects
set up in the Gestapo to super- able circulation was given here Eichmann, during testimony, and the task force set out to and because of difficulties cur-
rently being encountered in
vise the "final solution" of the today to British Broadcasting would provide such details, kidnap him."
carrying on Zionist activities.).
, . Revealing Extent of SS Crimes
u)
.
.
,
,
Bressler Slated
as Head of ZOA.