•Plan
Eichmann Tells of 'Blood for
from the moment of approval,
he busied himself with plans for
the transportation of the first
100,000 Jews to safety, adding
that "I could not have, imagined
that it would not be implement-
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)
ed." He added that • he first
JERUSALEM - Adolf Eichmann presented at his learned that the plan was nul-
trial Wednesday his version of the notorious "blood for lified when he read secret
trucks" proposal, portraying himself as a Nazi official documents.
This was a reference to docu-
who on his own initiative worked out a plan to exchange ments
from the archives of the
1,000,000 doomed Jews for 10,000 Allied trucks so that late Dr.
Chaim Weizmann as
he could return to his "original plan" of the emigration president of the World Zionist
of Jews.
Organization, who had pleaded
His testimony was designed in part to offset the with allied authorities to act
damaging effects of the proxy testimony from Kurt to save the remnant of the
Becher, a former head of the Economic Department European Jews.
* * *
of the S.S.
When Brand, who was ar-
Becher was one of a group the negotiations because "he
of former Nazis who testified looked decent, trustworthy and rested by the British in Syria,
as defense witnesses in West idealistic," Eichmann contended failed to return, Eichmann said
German courts out of fear of that the proposal was submitted "I went bAck to what I had
arrest as war criminals had they by him to Berlin with ,the un- been doing since 1939, while
come to Israel to testify.
derstanding that the deporta- peddler's, traders and black
The _Becher affidavit submit- tions to the death camps would marketeers returned to their
ted Tuesday by the prosecution continue pending Berlin ap- deals. Raising his voice, he
said, in a reference to Becher,
portrayed Eichmann as a _"zeal- proval.
ous anti - Semite. Becher also
Eichmann rejected Brand's "A holy anger seizes me when
testified that he had complained claim that -he had told Brand I hear that I took the money
to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler he would halt the "mills" at the of Jews while he purchased
that Eichmann tried to circum- Auschwitz death camp while equipment for the SS Cavalry."
He said vehemently that "I
vent Himmlees orders and that Brand was on his mission, with
Eichmann had confided to him a specific deadline for resump- did not take a single cent but
that he had countermanded a tion of the gassings and burn- returned everything, not so
Himmler order for the sending ings. He also denied prosecu- much because of sentiment but
of 1,700 Hungarian Jews to tion . testimony by Brand's wife because I wanted to prove the
Switzerland. Becher testified that Eichmann did not keep his honesty of the deal proposed"
that Eichmann admitted he had promise to halt deportations for for the exchange of Jews for
sent the 1,700 Jews to the Ber- the deadline period. He said in trucks.
gen-Belsen death camp.
"I transmitted the proposal
court Wednesday that " the only
Under the coaching of de- promise I gave was that the through official channels," he
fense counsel Robert Serva- trucks would not be used on asserted. "If the plans were
tius, Eichmann described his the Western front."
blocked it caused me - pain
first meeting with Becher who
too and I can understand the
"I told Brand, Kastnerand
arrived in Budapest as Himm-
anger and frustration of
Mrs. Brand that according to
ler's special envoy with the
Brand and I hope he knows
orders from Berlin, the de-
assignment of "p um p in g"
it was not me who directed
portations would continue un-
Hungary for every possible
the Jews toward extermina-
til Brand brought from the
resource for Germany's needs.
tion."
Jewish organizations accept-
Eichmann testified he "re-
ance of the plan."
Servatius then submitted re-
sented" Becher's "meddling,"
The Kastner he mentioned ports and letters from the Ger-
in an area with which Eich- was Dr. Rudolf Kastner; a lead- man legation. in Budapest on
mann had been concerned for er of Hungarian Jewry who was the exchange proposal and other
many years - the emigration later • the target of charges in documents intended to demon-
: of Jews.
Israel -that he had. saved his strate that it was the Hungarian
He said he felt strongly that own family at the expense of Fascist- governmeltrWhicli ob,
if there were to be any *changes. other Hungarian Jews: Kastner tamed the consent of Regent
-in handling of Jews, it should Was assassinated in Tel Aviv Horthy for resumption of de-
have been his department "and in f957 and three Israelis were portations and that it was Hun-
not a_ total stranger not - con- convicted a year later;;in - the garian Jews only who carried
nected with the police." He said slaying.
out the rounding up of the
his resentment increased be-
said tlfat he con- Jews."
' cause Becher - "prodded" him stantly urged Kastner to speed
Before Eichmann began his
Constantly to create an atmos- up action on 'the' eXchange pro- testimony Wednesday, Servatius
phere of panic among Jews posal "since I was 'happy that launched an effort to discredit
"only to further Hirnmler's di- in this way I could return
to the testimony of Becher and to
re
rectives."
my previous line"-forcing Jews prove that there was hostility
"My anger mounted that I to emigrate.
between the Nazis. He cited
had to cooperate in the miser-
PLAN NULLIFIED
the deposition in which Becher
able job of deportations with
He asserted that the plan was reaffirmed earlier statements
Becher standing aver my head, approved in Berlin and that that he practically fell to his
continually reprimanding me for
kneesT begging Himmler to come
red tape and delays which were
to terms with Eichmann, in
caused by the Hungarian Gen- Nazi Gestures . ••• •
Eichmann's presence, to halt
darmes and local authorities,"
the extermination of Jews and
Eichrnann testified. "My heart
to treat them with considera-
was even more bitter when the
tion. This presumably developed
Counter - Espionage Department
when it became clear to the
also intervened."
Nazis that they were losing the
`Frustrates' Intereference
war.
It was out of his pondering
HARD TO IMAGINE
on how to "frustrate" such in-
Servatius said sarcastically
terferences with his work and
that it was "difficult to imagine
authority that he developed the
Becher on his knees before
plan to release 1,000,000 Jews
Himmler on behalf of the
for 10,000 trucks, "something
Jews."
big which will overshadow any-
In other testimony, Eichmann
thing Bec'her might concoct."
returned to another favorite
He said that "out of the blue,"
theme to the effect that when-
Joel Brand ap
fore him
ever his limited powers permit-
on behalf
the
garian
ted, he tried to help the Jews.
Jewish
cue Committ •
He
The occasion was a discussion
said
t Brand's t est ony
of the treatment of the Jews
pr • Ously presented as a
ose-
of Austria after the Hitler re-
ion witness was orrec "ex-
gime had swallowed up that coun-
pt for a few d" e e •
' As
try. Eichmann claimed he was
e went on to
sion
responsible for saving Jews
I f the nego • •
e ex-
from arrest and for getting
change, t
.1
ncie roved
others released from concentra-
to be ma one
tion camps during the time he
*
was head of the Nazi Central
Asserting
chos rand for
Emigration office in Vienna
shortly before Hitler invaded
As he stood, when ad- Poland and touched off World
IF YOU T
THE
dressed by Presiding Judge War II.
•
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Moshe Landau, in the Jeru-
L
_
salem courtroom, Adolf
The defense testimony went
OWN YOU WON'T
Eichmann gestured, denying into a description by Eichmann,
FIND A FINER WINE THAN
that he was linked to the at the request of his attorney,
execution of Jews in Den- of his alleged efforts to facili-
mark, claiming that all he did tate the transfer of the remains
was "arrange for trains" to of Thedor Herzl from Vienna
take the victims to their to Palestine in 1939. Eichmann
Milan Wineries, Detroit, Mich.
Nazi Says He Wanted Only
to Force Jews' Emigration
why the arrangements
ough. Herzl's remains
moved to Israel .after
head of e Vienna Jewish corn-
mum came to him, "knowi
tha no other official
o
lis
to him. He k
t• de toward J
had to
is matter
ncern, run
fices and
en-
rtz 'if I bother
your
ubles, you
bother
a
t mine.
should obtain
the y for emigration of
an additional 8,000 Jews in ex-
change for my enabling the
transfer of Herzl's remains.' "
Eichmann said that he told
the Jewish leader that such an
arrangement "would give justi-
fication"-presumably to his su-
periors"for my dealing with
the Herzl affair." He did not
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