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transportation costs. Eichmann
quickly offered another explana-
tion—that these direct payments
were made not to the security
police, but for the expenses of
"ordinary police" who accom-
panied some of the transports.
Several times, spectators burst
out in loud, ironic laughter while
Eichmann was testifying. At one
time, such laughter greeted Eich-
mann's explanation when he was
asked why he had assigned 1,000
Jews to trains earmarked' for a
capacity of only '700 persons. He
said that the 700-capacity re-
ferred to military personnel,
whereas the Jews placed on those
trains had no need for luggage
space. Justice Landau rapped
sternly for order and warned the
spectators he would have "to
take steps" against them if they
continued showing such reactions.
Eichmann's testimony was re-
lated to documents previously in-
troduced by the prosecution. In
each instance, he had his own
explanations.
He was asked about the
Wannsee conference held at a
Berlin suburb in January 1942,
for firming up the Nazi line on
"the final solution" of the Jew-
ish question. That was Rein-
hard Heydrich's fault, he an-
swered, and Eichmann said he
knew after that parley he had
to carry out orders, since Heyd•
rich was chief of the SS.
On the Nazi decision to requisi-
and my personality in the light
of the Wannsee Conference as
background.
"As far as my own ego is con-
cerned, I summed up the mean-
ing of my satisfaction. I felt
solace and comfort in • the fact
that I had done my best,– my
utmost, despite my low rank of
lieutenant colonel, in seeking a
final solution which was not re-
pellent nor hideous, but was at
at the same time both feasible
and possible.
"I had to draft certain pro-
posals, and the truth of this
statement can be verified. I
did my level best to Tiring order
and organization into all the
havot and turmoil. I left no
stone unturned. What was
done, was not my doing. That
guilt' -Old not rest with me.
I felt l'--was not to blame be-
cause what was decided at
Wannsee was decided by the
Elite. I have the feeling of
Pontius , Pilate. The popes of
the regime decided. I had to
toe the line."
Globke Denies Guilt
LONDON, (JTA) — Dr. Hans
Globke, West German State Sec-
retary and principal aide to Chan-
cellor Konrad Adenauer, gave his
version of the part he played in
writing the commentary on the
Nuremberg Race . Laws. Globke
ascribed the "initiative" for the
Nuremberg Laws to Rudolph
tion gas and other paraphernalia
for the annihilation . of Jews,
Eichmann said that was the de-
cision of General Mueller.
Sterilization of Jews, said
Eichmann, was not his job, since
he was responsible only for "tech-
nical fundions."
Deportation of elderly Jews—
that was done by "local officials"
who did not want elderly people
on their hands, while younger
Jews were being deported.
His signature on orders for the
hanging of Jews was appended on
orders of superiors, he said. In
these cases, claimed Eichmann,
HANS GLOBKE
he was "only a postman" relaying
Hess, former Deputy Fuehrer
superior orders.
All in all, he testified, every- under Adolf Hitler, who is now
thing that was done in regard serving a life sentence for war
to the Jews, coming after the crimes at Spandau Prison in West
Wannsee conference which had Berlin.
In an interview with the Daily
arrived at "unexpected una-
nimity with boundless enthu- Mirror columnist "Cassandra,"
Globke said that Hess "wanted
siasm," was the work of of
to go much further in legisla-
ga
As for him,
on against the Jews" but as-
a *tted
the court
cre
rted that he and other civil
ictatin is memoirs
that,
vants fought against incorpora-
to. a utch Na journalist in
n of the worst Hess proposals
tina, he had e ressed
Ar
to law.
But,
in the happeni
used in a decent way without
giving offense" and declared "I
can tell you in all honesty that
I had a hard fight with my su-
periors to limit the matter to
the first names 'Sarah' and
`Israel.' "
Referring to Adolf Eich-
mann's testimony at the trial
in Jerusalem, in which he men-
tioned Globke's efforts "toward
the withdrawal of citizenship
and the confiscation of Jewish
property," the State Secretary
said that Eichmann had "a
strong interest in shifting and
reducing responsibility he exer-
cised and in transferring the
onus of responsibility to other
people."
Globke said that he first met
Eichmann one morning in a hall-
way in the Berlin Interior Minis-
try. "Eichmann was certainly in
charge of a Reich department o
the Security Offic • "
Glared, addin
e hay
ce
taro reput
—certai
. not a
savory o
I thought he was a
person w carried t his duties
after in
ction
een pass
to him
his
The
ate Seer
Mirror orrespon a
never
any
u th
e
anti-Se
'e evils Hitl
ould
be rejec " and a
: "Right
up to the
e war, I did
not know there was an order for
the extermination of all Jews."
(In his second day of testi-
mony, Eichmann modified slightly
his story implicating Globke by
saying that either a Herr Hering
"or Globke" was involved in
setting up the legal basis for
stripping German Jews of prop-
erty and citizenship.)
JTA reports from Vienna
that Dr. A. Kittle, who inter-
rogated Willi Hoettl as a wit-
ness in the Eichmann case,
said he had not found evidence
of a close connection between
Hoettl and Eichmann during
the Nazi regime. Kittle, who
hinted that Hoettl's testimony
might lead to new sensational
judgments about the Nazi
"final solution" of the Jewish
problem, said he regretted
that neither Israel Attorney
ral Gideon Hausner nor
e attorney Servatius at-
tended the Hoettl interroga-
tion.
It was believed that Eich-
mann's testimony on his own be-
half may last a full three weeks.
After the direct testimony, Haus-
ner, as chief of the prosecution,
is expected to take at least three,
possibly four days, for cross- .
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"We were successful at least
in this, but some of the objec-
IVry j is
tionable material remained,"
irely ff
e- he declared. Asserting that he
drich' satisf
e fa a esu , my was not "all powerful," Globke
g d to
exam- told the British correspondent
ite
ferent
was
character • that "perhaps I made a mistake
and eighed
in
but at the time and under
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Referring to his part in the
decision t h a t German Jews
should carry specially marked
passports, Globke said that he
was involved in the matter "by
some sort of procedural mistake."
e explained that the initiative
came from the Swiss authorities,
who . were embarrassed by the
number of Jews fleeing to Swit-
zerland. He stated:
"I realized the danger behind
the Swiss proposals and suggested
unofficially that it might be pos-
sible to mark the passports of
all Germans in some special way.
This might prevent Jewish citi-
zens from going to Switzerland
but would not hinder them from
going to other countries as Ger-
mans." He added that his pro-
posal was never accepted.
A suggestion of his that was
adopted, the State Secretary said.
was the substitution for the let-
ter "J" in the passports of the
name "Israel" for all Jewish
males and the name "Sarah" for
Jewish females. Globke said he
"spoke to a rabbi to find out
which • Jewish names could be
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Eichmann Has Lapsed Memory Moments at Trial