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when he (Servatius) said that six years ago, has not yet re- . Deputy State Attorney Is it possible that he is Un-
the Danes to escape in a single Germany has already atoned, ex- ceived sufficient votes from sup- Ya'akov Baror, who sat with repentant? Does he have no re-
night to Sweden. .
piated her crimes — 'You re- porting nations to make it an Attorney General Gideon Ham- morse?"
For, endlessly, from the mo-
Eichmarin had replied 15 times- ceived reparations: what more international . law. AttOrney Gen-. ner and who assisted in the
in answer to 15 counts of the do you want?' I wish to say eral Ilakisrier stated in his charge . preparation of the case for the ment he is ushered into the
indictment, "In the spirit of the and stress . that the agreement against EiChmann, addressing prosecution, stated that; unlike bullet-proof glass cage, sitting a
for reparations did not come the court:
American practice, only oral bit in front of the two unarmed_
indictment, am not guilty."
'Israel joined the. treaty -, to arguinents are heard by the Su- policemen who are constantly
His defense counsel, how- near atoning for or pardoning,
ever, previously quoted his and :did not help _ to forget the avoid_ the crime of genocide.. It preme Court, but exceptions are with him,. he never moves a
•client as saying; "Of course, I crimes: there can be no atone- is regretted that Israel is one made to allow for presentation limb, never changes the expres-
of the few states to sign the of briefs.
sion on his face, sits like a statue
am - in a certain. measure ment. •
Servatius may resort to com- retaining his composure. Only ;
guilty, but in the end I am - "There is no pardon and there treaty and fulfill their under-'
guilty in the same measure as can be no forgetting; ' it is only takings to promulgate - and pass plaints of varying natures, such when he removes his kerchief
'possible to hope and 'believe that' a national law,. which has been as the "inadequacy" of German from his pocket to wipe his face
other's• are guilty."
At one point in the long open- the sons will be different from adopted in Israel regarding the translations of the trial proceed- is there any movement in him.
ings, It is recalled here that he
Thus, Eichmann is the Ger-
ing statement, the usually even- the fathers, and that new gen- crime of genocide."
Attorney G_e ner al Hausner had raised similar objections, at man official, giving the im-
toned Hausner accused the Ger- erations will grow and a son
man people :of unspeakable Will not be called upon to give may have • had reference to the the Nuremberg trial, where he pression that is gathered from
the defense—that he only took
crimes, calling "to witness six judgrnent for the sins ' of' his United States: The U.S. Senate defended Fritz Saukel.
has, thus:far, refrained from en-
At Nuremberg, Saukel• was orders. There is 'a relentless-
million prosecutors whose blood father.
"But he who committed dorsing the UN Genocide Con- held responsible for the Nazi ness about him that irks the
cries to heaven, but their voices
those crimes, for him there ventien; •yielding to the position forced labor camps, was ad- viewers, and one diplomat
cannot be heard."
Said Hausner: "I grant that is no pardon and there is no taken against it by*the Atnerican judged guilty and was one of from a Western country com-
the. ten_ Nazi criminals executed mented after. one of. the trial
some Germans maintained an atonement. The Jewish people Bar Association.
sessions - that 'EichMann,
at the time;
anti - Hitler underground a n d remembers fora. two thousand
It IS becoming apparent that
that even soldiers tried to frus- years now him who tried—for
Simultaneous translations of watching the three judges—
trate the killings; but these the first time in history, maybe Presiding Judge Landau is seek- proceedings at the Eichmann all natives of GerMany—must
were only a small minority. The .—the crime of geriocid_e: Ha- - ing ways to shorten the trial, to trial 'are conducted from the be saying to -hiniself: "If I
decisive majority of the German man. (He referred to the vil speed action..
Hebrew and' the German. into had gotten to you on time,
But - it is doubtful whether English and • French.
people made peace with the new lain in the Book of Esther).
you would not have been here
The Jewish people Will never Attorney General Hausner will
•(Hitler) regime,"
to be judges over me!"
The
language
of
the
court
:
is
forget the one 'who' succeeded give up a single opportunity to Hebrew, and the defense attor-
The Attorney General
In his business suit made
in part in s- committing -this quote • 'every bit of available evi-
charged that Eichmann had
ney and Eichmann must depend especially for him by a JerUsa-
crime."
dence not'only against Eichmann upon
accomplices who were neither
the translation into Ger- lem tailor, in house slippers, to
gangsters nor men of the
While it is Adolf Eichmann but against the entire crime of man which they hear over the deprive him of shoelaces he
Nazism.
underworld; but leaders of a Who is on trial in the Beth
earphones. But when German is might otherwise use to commit
Meanwhile a special corps spoken, as in the instance of suicide, Eichmann sits in his
nation, includihg professors, Ha-Am court house in Jerusa-
s cholarly robed dignitaries lem; the case already ,is assum- of 700 policemen, known as the statements by Servatius, dock unmoved by the frequent
with academic degrees, lin- ing international significance by the Eichmann Unit, its mem- there are immediate translations references—even by his own at-
guists, men of enlightenment, virtue of the numerous prece- bers distinguished by the blue as part of the court procedure torney to the unparalleled
doctors and lawyers, bankers dents invoked and the direction shoulder patches, is guarding into Hebrew. -
crime in. history.
the court area, the court
and economists. '
the trial is beginning to take.
The judges know all the four -And on the roofS surrounding
The proceedings of this second
Servatius is expected, in of- house, Eichmann and all as- languages, but they use Hebrew the court house Jewish police-
week of sessions in the case have fering his defense, to prove that sociated with the trial—search- in 'conducting the- court. HOw- men ,continue to hold vigil, -to
deeply moved the people Of Is- while the Nazis committed 'a ing correspondents and all ever, they frequently themselves. make sure that the Nazi criminal
rael. Thousands 'weep as they crime, the Allies who were fight -- who enter the court area.
lapse into English whenever ref- is protected, that no harm is
Eichmatin supposedly has not erences to precedents are made done to hiin! What an unusual
listen to details of the testimony ing Hitler could have saved mil-
over the - radio which stir bitter lions by proper action. Attempts heard from his wife, Vera, who in English.
procedure in trying the worst
recollection.
will be made to show that Eich- is said to have gone into hiding
When, for example, Ser- crime in history!
Their hearts respond, too, to mann "offered to release tens of in Argentina after her husband vatius contended that the
Hausner's declaration that "there thousands of Jews in exchange was caught by the Israelis. He United Nations Security
can be no atonement for the for war material with which` does not hear from his four sons Council spoke of an - "appro-
Hitler could continue the war and two brothers.
crime of Nazism." '
priate court," when the issue
A Protestant minister, who is arose between Israel and Ar-
• Questions of "expiation," against the Allied forces.
It is anticipated that Ser- identified only as "A," report- gentina, after the kidnaping
"atonement," "forgiveness,"
"reparations" are entering into vatius will level accusations edly offered Eichmann- spiritual of Eichmann, Justice Halevi
the discussions that have made against Great Britain for hay:- solace, but his offer has not been consulted his files and prompt.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
the current court case more soul- .ing failed properly to come to accepted. But Eichmann is study- ly corrected Eichmann's de-
to The Jewish News)
stirring, and at the same time the aid of the Jewish' victims ing essays 'on "after-life." His fense counsel that the. UN
JERUSALEM — The prosecu-
even more sensational, than the of Nazism and similar charges cold bearing seems -to refute any record referred to "appropri-
tion's first witness in Israel's case
Nuremberg trial.
may be made against the interest- in anything surrounding ate justice." .
against Adolf 'Eichmann was
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United States, Franklin D. him. He sits there, at every court
While both the Attorney
Roosevelt possibly to be sin- session, giving the impression
While 'Servatius spoke of Eich- David Bar Shalom, a plainclothes
General and the Court are ap-
gled out as one wha failed to that as a loyal German official mann as having been unfortu- officer of Police Bureau 0-6
parently careful on occasion
come to the aid of hundreds he is "awaiting orders."
to differentiate between the
nate in the orders he received which assembled the material for
of thousands -who could have
Crime of Nazism and the anti-
Servatius already has indi- and –as having returned to the the trial,.
been saved — primarily by
He submitted a series of docu-
Nazi *position adopted by the
cated that he will appeal the status of a peaceful citizen, those
opening PaleStine's doors to
Federal Republic of GerMany,
verdict of the present court. who watch him in the court ments gathered from various
Jewish refugees who were
under the administration of
Over-ruled on his challenge of room, or on the screen where parts of the world together with
turned .away froin the land
men like- Chancellor Konrad
the legality -of the three-judge the proceedings' are being' tele- depositions from governments
that was eventually to become
Adenauer, the issue of Nazism
court now in session — with vised, on the closed circuit, in and individuals as sources of the
the sovereign State of \ Israel.
and its possible reverberations
Justice Moshe Landau presid- the Rattisbonne Monastery keep material.
•
frequently emerges by innu-
But the prosecutor, too, ex- ing, and the participation of wondering: "What sort of heart-
The documents indicated that
endo.
less person is this who sits in Britain, 'United States, France,
pressed disappointment that too Judges Benjamin Halevi
Eichmann's defense attorney, few nations have supported' the Yitzhak Raveh — Eichmann's his bullet - proof glass - encased Czeehoslovakia, Hungary, Italy,
Dr. Robert Servatius, makes no United • Nations Genocide Con- defender will have recourse to prisoner's dock, cold, unmoving, Poland and Yugoslavia provided
like granite hewn out of stone? material requested by Israel for
secret of the accepted need for vention. This convention, adopted the Israel Supreme Court. -
preparation of the 15-count in-
rejecting the inhumanity of
dictment against Eichmann.
everything related to Nazism,
but he invited challenge -when,
Exhibits handed in by the wit-
in his defense, he asserted:
ness included 96 microfilm units
"Humanity is no longer in dan-
from the archives of the German
ger, and with the end of Hitler
Foreign Ministry whach had been
he (Eichmann), has turned into
captured by the Allies. These
a peaceful citizen; He was Un-
were obtained by the 'dad Va-
fortunate and he had to take
shem, the . memorial authority
orders from' an inhuman regime
for the Nazi holocaust, during a
visit to a British"repository where
and he has - freed himself from
the originals were maintained on
an oath he had taken."
behalf of the Allies by Dr. Meir
, Thus early in the trial, Ser-
Verite, a Hebrew University pro-
Niatius indicated his line of .ap-
fessor of history.'
proach. He wanted the Israeli
Court. declared incompetent, he
The - documents were made
Called the trying of Eichmann
available to the Israel- Embassy
in London -by permission of the
in ISrael illegal; he wanted to
American, and : British Foreign
be 'given the right to : interrogate
Ministries.
El Al Israel Airlines pilots who
Were in charge of the plane On
Another' series of documents,
Which Eichmann was brought to
pertaining to the Nuremberg
Israel from Argentina.-
trials, comprised photOStates of
official reports as well as ex-
But, anticipating that he
hibits from the United States
would ' be overruled in many
National Archives. The deposi-
Of his accusations, he already
tions included one by Robert
kepared the defense: "expia !
Kempner, the deputy' prosecutor
tion," with which he • merged
,at Nuremberg.
a contention that Germany al-
ready had provided "repara-
The defense offered no' objec-
tions" to Israel for-: the crime .
tion to -the presentation of the
of Nazism. It was on this score
documentary material but re-
served the right to ask for an
that Israel's Dositian became
ATTORNEY GENERAL GIDEON HAUS- and assistant defense counsel Dieter Wechten- opportunity to cross-examine
clear, Attorney General Haus-
NER completes his historical openirig statement bruch (right) listen.
those presenting the documents
ner speaking to the court:
i should the occasion arise.
understood the Defense, as Eichmann's lawyer, Dr. Robert Servatius,
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Many Countries
Helped Israel
Document Case
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