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could not be denied that he
headed the Gestapo depart-
ment charged with dealing
with "Jewish affairs,' . ' but he
insisted that his was not the
only department and that it
would be "stretching" the
truth to say that he was the
principal director of the han-
dling of the Jews.
Hausner asked how this de-

with the charge that by "direct
personal action," Eichmann
"closed the doors and snuffed
out the hopes of those who were
about to be rescued from cer-
tain doom."
Eichmann gave the predic
able answer that his interve
tions in all such cases were no
on his own initiative but from
queries from superiors to his
department. He argued that
bureaucratic procedures d e -
manded that he act within "the
framework of regulations" and
that his actions in obeying or-
ders could not serve to prove
that he personally lacked sym-
pathy for the victims.
relentless questioning,
confirmed that he
lc a
of names of Jews
was sent 1
deported t Ife Polish slaughter
e said eventually
camps bu
came so large that
the totals
ames became point-
listing o
om 1943 onward, only
less an,
were reported to his
nu
department.

itted that these
on through the
at they included
of the Hungarian
`when half a million
eported within a few

on, tangled on
cross e
of Eichmann's
the
with the Ausch
icier factory. Eic
rst denied flatly
been in toile
to determine
which the
cept" de

to send someone to the Bu-
chenwald concentration camp.
Pressed further on the report
from Loewenhertz, Eichmann
said he simply refused to read
it because it "seemed a fabri-
cation made after 1945."
ents to
Confron
In reply to Hausner's ques-
- year - old
tion on whether he was guilty,
Nazi admitted he had been in
Eichmann said: "Yes, from the scription explained the frequent
contact with Auschwitz officials.
point of human guilt, but I do mention of Eichmann's name in
He insisted that such contacts
not consider myself guilty from official German Foreign Min-
were not permanent but only
a legal point. If some of the istry directives as being in
"from time to time as occasions
Jews found death as a result charge of Jewish affairs, par-
of • deportations, it has to be ticularly in directives to and
determined from a legal view- from foreign minister Joachim
point whether I am- guilty."
von Ribbentrop. Eichmann at-
Hausner returned to the at- tributed such appearances of
tack, saying: "My question is name to bureaucratic
not a legal one._ In your heart, ness. He used this a
t on
do you find yourself guilty of each occasion
ausner
participation in the murder of presented suc
ments.
millions - of Jews?"
r then turned
The pros
"From the human point, yes, to docum
owing how
since I am guilty in the de- Eichma
ed out to the
portations," Eichmann replied. fronti
bring back Dutch,
Hausner questioned the de- Gree
ench, Italian and Ru-
e prosecutor and the de-
fendant closely on the notori- ma
Jews who were o he
dant, in one of the fre-
ous statement he made near
of reaching fre
uent clashes marking the
the end of the war, to the
cume
ports, as well as
fo
r
effect that . he would jump into
owing that
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these
documents
"rhetorically" when his subordi- entation
nates began to crack as -defeat
became inevitable and he urged
on them a "last stand." In re-
capitulating the toll of the war,
he said, he mentioned 5,000,000
Germans, 5,000,000 enemies and
5,000,000 Jews.
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Hausner then asked him if
he considered the Nuremberg
death sentences on Nazi lead-
ers as just for implementing
Hitler's personal order to wipe
out European Jewry. He re-
plied affirmatively, basing his
reply on his argument that, as
responsible leaders, the Nazis
had to bear the consequences
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of their actions—but that this
could not be applied to lower
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one single death;" he replied.
"I never ordered any killing."

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The question and the reply
were the climax of 62 hours
of self-defense testimony. He
' argued that it was "difficult"
to evaluate the question of
guilt. There was such a thing
as technical, legal guilt which
was different from human
guilt, he .§aid.

"I wore a uniform. It was
wartime," he said, adding that
those who spoke of evading
orders did not realize that this
was not possible for "the little
man" in the Nazi hierarchy,
especially for one who bore
"secret orders."
After much soul-searching re-
garding his Nazi role, 'he said,
he regretted and condemned
every action in the annihilation
of Jews which was ordered "by
authority" about which he could
do nothing as a cog with strong
superiors and powerful force
and a fate which knew no
mercy.
Eichmann conceded Wednes-
day, during the fourth day
of gruelling cross-examination,
that there was a sharp conflict
between his self-portrayal as
one , sympathetic to the Jews
caught in the Nazi machine and
his zeal in hunting down and
seizing the Jews who managed
to get escape passports as na-
tionals of other countries.
Prosecutor Ha-usper, fighting
hard to pin -down his evasive
target, concentrated on Eich-
mann's special status regarding
Jewish affairs during the war-
time period. He confronted the
defendant with -a flood of docu-
ments and depositions, includ-
ing some deeply- incriminating
statements taken • from. Eich-
mann's own witnesses in West
Germany and then pointedly
asked if they were all liars and
only Eichmarin the truth-teller.

Eichmann replied that it

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