Eichmann Says He Was 'Disturbed'
2 1 Red Cross, Switzerland, En,gland, United States
May Be Linked Among Guilty in Failing to Rescue by Shrieks of Jews in Death Throes
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Nazi "Operation Against Jews,'"!
Jews from Nazis, Eichmann's Defense Indicates
Colonel Adolf Eichmann, in his Eichmann related that "there,
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ ;hibiting the entry of escapees
There is uneasiness in some ' from Nazism. and it is an es-
quarters that Eichmann's de- tablished fact that many among
fense attorney, Dr. Robert Ser- those who reached the Swiss
vatius, will point a c cusin g borders during the restrictive
fingers also at the democratic years immediately fell into the
powers that failed at the proper hands of their persecutors and
time to come to the aid of Jews met their death. Towards the
fleeing from the Nazi terrors. end of the war, the restrictive
A new record is being Bath- Swiss law was repealed and
ered — against the Red -Cross, many Christian and Jewish es-
Switzerland, Great Britain and capees from Na z i s m found
refuge in Switzerland.
even the United States.
Even Czechoslovakia is held
A major accusation may be
responsible for the death of
leveled against the British.
many escapees. When Austria
Since the story of the negotia- was invaded by Hitler's forces,
tions that were conducted by 300 socialists, democrats and
Rudolf Kastner, (who was as- Jews who were known to be
sassinated in Israel on Mardi Hitler'S most outspoken op-
3, 1957) with Eichmann, for ponents in Austria, left by train
the rescue of a million Jews, for Czechoslovakia, expecting
in exchange for ten thousand and hoping for refuge in-a land
trucks that Jews were asked to that was itself in danger. The
provide the Nazis to be able to date was March 12, 1938. But
continue the war against the the Czech Minister of the In-
Allies, it is certain that Great terior issued an order prohibit-
Britain's role in efforts to rescue ing entry of foreigners. Police
Jews will be recalled. were sent to the borders. At
When. the British were told I gun
gun point, the 300 Austrians
that a million Jews could be were _pushed back into' Austria
rescued, Lord Moyne, then one and into the arms of Hitler
of the chief British military I
leaders, said: "A million Jews? them.
iforces It which
murdered
all of
was not
so long there-
What'll we do with them?" It after that Czechoslovakia itself
was in the year when American became Hitler's victim.
Jews were pleading for the ad-
Now, as to the Red Cross:
mission of 100,000 Jews into
Palestine and the British Man- the case against the Interna-
datory Power refused to concur tional Red Cross was drafted in
a brief by Dr. Ziegfried_ Z.
in the request, After the end
of the war, Lord Moyne was Kantor, a one-time president of
among those who remained ada- the International Union- of Ad-
mant against the opening of vocates and the last president
Palestine's doors to Jewish refu- i of the Austrian Bar.
gees, and he was assassinated _ Dr. Kantor, who died several
in Cairo by Jewish extremists. I years ago, accused the president
That was one of the - very few of the World Red Cross of hav-
occasions when Churchill spoke ing failed to adhere to the Red
critically of Zionism, of which I Cross principles to visit death
he was an avowed friend, be- camps and to get the facts about
cause extremists among them the holocaust and the extermi-
nations. He charged that the
"killed my dear friend."
This is an incident in which Red Cross was morally respon-
the British were considered re- sible for acts of yielding to the
sponsible for failure to rescue German government's "delaying
Jews. refusals" to admit Red Cross
Switzerland had a law pro- representatives, and that when
!
the Red Crciss finally sent emis-
saries to Auschwitz in Septem-
ber, 1944, realizing what was
happening, it limited its activi-
ties to sending food packages
to the camp.
Then there is the position of
the United States. It is be-
lieved that the charge will be
made that there were unneces-
sary and unjustified delays in
providing refuge for thousands
of children who could have been
rescued,. but that the Franklin
D. Roosev It administration
failed to act promptly, when
rescue activities could have been
effected.
As evidenced by the testimony
of Eichmann himself, who now
poses as the humanitarian who
could not stomach the brutali-
ties, the story of the Hitlerite
degenerate acts will be exposed
so thoroughly that the world
will once more sit up aghast at
cruelties that occurred in 20th
century civilization.
But in the process of reveal-
ing bestialities the democratic
powers will be subjected to un-
expected scrutiny. The tragi-
dramatic court actions in Jeru-
salem are transforming Shake-
speare and Ibsen into amateurs.
Brazil Students Ask
Death for Eichmann;
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JERUSALEM, Israel—Henrik Eichmann trial and he expects alty or the mo•
of
"Manos" Diamand, the man who to be called as a prosecution his
iMes.)
found Eichmann's photb, thus witness.
leading to the successful track-
Diamand described his meet-
lin to P $250,
ing down of the mass criminal, ings with D i e t r Wislieceny,
told his story to The Jewish Eichmann's lieutenant who was t Jewish
iden
News correspondent.
condemned to death at the
N
i-Looted
Pro
His nickname "Manos" stems Nuremberg trials but who told
RLIN, (JTA)
An an-
from the fact that he had used all details of the Eichmann
est Berlin
it when he befriended Vera crimes in the hope of being no cement that th
has vote
pay to the
Eichmann and later Eichmann's spared his life. He even offered, Sen
before he was executed, to go Jewi
omm y here 1,000,000
mistress, Maria Mesenbacher.
(about $250,000)
Diamand, who miraculously on a personal hunt for Eich- Deuts
for cultural objects seized from
survived death in concentra- mann.
It was Moshe Perlman, one the Jewish community during the
tion camps, was engaged in
tracking down war criminals of the most distinguished Israeli Nazi regime was made here by
for -the U. S. Army of Occu-. writers; who first secured infor- Senator Joachim Lipshitz.
Lipshitz made the announ
pation. Asher Ban - Nathan mation about Eichmann from
later enlisted his aid in the Wislieceny, when he was in ment at a meeting in the
;
search for material on his book Community Cente
search for Eichmann.
om of the
Maria's grandfather was a on the former Grand. Mufti of memorating the
sa Ghetto who
Jew, Fronherz, and her family's Jerusalem, who was a Nazi col- Jews in the
t e Nazis in
• factories later were taken over laborator, during the Nurem- rebelled
berg trial. Wislieceny was con- 1943. In is address, Lip
by the Nazis.
igh tribute to 56
-
Diamand, whose name figures victed for carrying out the also pai
Jewish itizens of Berlin
h
in all the accounts of the search Lidice massacre.
Perlman's book on the Eich, helped ews in this •
for Eichmann, and whose expe-
regime.
riences are told in all the books mann case is considered the the N
published about the Eichmann best that has been written on
case, tells how he established the subject of the criminal Cha e Fiv
ns
residences near both Vera Eich- and his crimes, as well as his
Kill
Lithu
Jews
mann and Maria Mesenbacher, capture.
URT, ( A)---LA West
Diamand also told of the role
how a German girl helped him,
hysician and four other
his having been shown family played by another "hunter" for Germa
e on trial here o
albums and later the display of Eichmann, Sim on Wisenthal, men
w
responsibility for
the Eichmann photo by Maria who now lives in Linz, Austria.
Jews in Lith
which Diamand acquired and Wisenthal, too, is attending the deaths of
in June 1
'turned over to the Israeli "hunt- Eichmann trial.
Dr. Werner
eu
of Bo-
Diamand's search was con-
ers" for the criminal.
Now representing Die Shtim- ducted mostly in Linz and other chum, and Karl e, 58, both
mer, a Jewish weekly in Vienna, Austrian- areas where the two former SS officers, were charged
Diamand lives in Ramat Gan in women from whom he sought with ordering on their own ini-
information lived during the tiative the shooting of Jews
Israel. He is writing • an
biography which will contain an four years after the war, and alleged to be unemployable. Otto
account of his life and his ex- before Vera joined Adolf—who Bastian, Wilhelm Schmidt and
periences in the search for Eich- then adopted the name of Friedrich Jagst were accused of
mann, whom he had himself Ricardo Klement — in Argen- participating in the murders with-
out high authority. All pleaded
seen casually only once. He is tina.
P.S. not guilty to the charges.
attending all sessions of the
Henrik liffunos' Diansand
Tells Story of Hunt to JN
first experience with the "physi-
cal extermination of Jews"
"could not look at this heinous
act of turpitude," he told his
Israeli captors in a taped inter-
view played back during his
trial.
He said he had been sum-
moned by Reinhard Heydrich.
Himmler's deputy, and ordered
to convey Hitler's instructions
to the Lublin commander Glo-
bocnik for the murder of Jewish
inmates. Eichmann told the
lice that "I had nothing
to such a brutal
such a bruta
had
never thou
He to the I
ga-
tors t
he pro
p
"Tre' nka or so
e,
I
ally canno
r"
e, he said,
c struction go
1 ked like tw
as and the camp
er,
iptmann, told
t gas
Id be poured
e rooms
Jews woul
an he poisoned.
added h
as sure this
hap
e summer of
1941 because it was the sea-
son of deciduous fruits and
one could see blossoms fall-
ing and fruit emerging.
Referring to the explanations
he received at Treblinka, he
said: "This I -shall never forget
even if I live long." Ordered
to witness and report on the
was a room, rather large, in . „
which Jews were ordered .to
strip naked. They were then
herded into trucks and driven
to the huts. There the naked.
Jews were forced in, the doors
hermetically sealed."
Asked how many there were,
Eichmann told his captors: "I
tried to avert my eyes. The
shrieking and screaming made
me "too disturbed to look. Then
-came the most breathtaking
'ht my eyes ever saw in my
Bodies were transferred in
to an open pit where the
s were flung out as if
ere beast flesh, into the
I also saw that gold teeth
een extracted. I could not
at this heinous act of tur-
de."
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