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not or would not come to Israel
for fear of arrest as Nazi war
criminals.
The final defense affidavit
was from Eichmann's former
valet, SS Staff Sergeant Franz
Slawik. Servatius introduced
this affidavit in an attempt to
refute prosecution charges that
Eichmann helped kill a Jewish
boy with his own hands for
allegedly stealing some cher-
ries from a tree in a villa in
Budapest commandered to
serve as Eichmann's headquar-
ters.
On May 26 Abraham Gordon
testified for the prosecution that
he saw Eichmann and Slavik drag
th-e boy into a toolshed and that
he heard blows and screams. Gor-
don said Eichmann later came
out of the shed with his clothing
spattered with "what looked like
blood," and that later the boy
was thrown in Eichmann's auto-
mobile, driven away and pre-
sumably tossed into the Danube
River.
Slawik said in the affidavit that
he was with Eichmann in Buda-
(pest from May to November I avoided going to Eichmann
1944, that he never saw or heard I whenever "I wanted to do a
of the killing and that he never favor to a Jew on an individual
received orders to punish any- level." "I never went to Eich-
body stealing fruit. The affidavit mann, but to his superiors,
was made in Vienna on July 6.
because he was an exponent
After this affidavit was into- of the severest measures."
duced, Hausner submitted various
Another of the former SS of-
documents designed to rebut ficers, Max Merten, who had
some of the defense tesimony. been the Nazi military command-
The judges, after an 80-minute er in Macedonia, Greece, told the
recess, ruled 'that some of the German court which interrogated
documents would be accepted ' him that, acting on legal advice,
and some rejected.
he would not incriminate anyone.
One of Adolf Eichmann's own !But when Servatius went over to
defense witnesses; Prof. Franz the deposition sworn by .Her-
Syx, a former SS officer in Nazi- mann Krumey, former command-
occupied Russia, testified through , er of the Lodz ghetto, and an aide
a deposition read in court that to Eichmann, the prosecutor de-
Eichmann was not merely a sub- manded that either all of ICru-
ordinate of -Gestapo Chief Hein- !mey's affidavit b
rich Mueller but that his depart- the recor
ment had more jurisdiction than
Ser
tri
ring in only
other departments. Prof. Syx pic- th . - rt of = Krumey deposi-
tured Eichmann as a man who
which sought to whitewash
did not always have to take or- ichmann. But Hausner insisted
ders from superior officers.
on relea •into th
Prof. Syx said that Ei
other parts o
mann always acted in sue
sition wh'
way as to interpret anti-Se
Krumey ha to
er o
doctrine in the most e
mann's rtment matters
manner. According to S
that ha to do with deportati
of Jews and messages d
with the children of t
echo-
slovakian town of
Throw
of the testi-
the ex-Nazis, it was
PARIS, (JTA) — A. somber 'times outright_ anti-Semitic.' , shown that , the true meaning of
picture of recent developments Rabbis and other Jewish ec _ ; the "final solution" of the Jew-
in the life of the Jews in the clesiastic officials, Goldmann ish problem—complete annihila-
Soviet Union was presented by stated, "are often depicted as tion—was known only to a lim-
ited number.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann. crooks and speculators."
He drew that picture in a re- According to Goldmann, vis _ Perhaps the most damaging
port for the World Conference itors to the Soviet Union have testimony of the day, came before
of Intellectuals which met here found "a severe shortage of the depositions had been read.
under- his chairmanship last Jewish prayer books and other That happened when Justice Lan-
S'eptember to evaluate the' sit- objects, necessary for the prac _ dau questioned Eichmann. Ask-
uation of the 3,000,000 Jews in tice of the Jewish religion." ing his questions in Hebrew, then
the USSR. Consequently, the Jewish leader translating himself into German',
During the last 12 months, stated, "the Jewish religion ex- Justice Landau tied Eichmann
Goldmann reported, 13 syna- periences much greater discrim- down to an admission that he had
gogues have been closed down ination than do other religious falsified the official records of
in the Soviet Union. denominations in the Soviet the conference held in 1942, at
Wannsee, a Berlin suburb, where
In general, the report found Union.
the details of "the final solu-
"no signs of improvement" in
NO JEWISH SCHOOLS
the'religious life of the Jewish
Iri national -and cultural ac- tion" were worked out by Nazi
community in Russia could be tivities, Goldmann said; there leaders.
found since the Paris confer- , has been no improvement.
Eichmann tried to answer Jus-
ence of last year, nor has there "There are still no national tice Landau's questions in a
been any "distinct improve- Jewish institutions," he re- rambling manner, but the
ment" in regard to Jewish na- ported, "or organizations, nor is presiding Judge forced him to
tional or cultural life in the there any relaxation of the reply - with straight answers.
Soviet Union. total prohibition of Jewish The judge brought out that,
He stated that, although clubs, societies and other insti- while stenographers had taken
the minutes of the Wannsee
"tens of tholisands" of appli- tutions."
cations h
ed
The "few words" by contemp- session, it was Eichmann who
reports on
by Jew esie
union
orary Yiddish writers in the prepared the formal
•
the'
ili abroad, "only
Soviet Union, Goldmann said, that parley.
ne gible, umber of these "have been permitted in Rus-
Eichmann fina lly admitted that
lications have
ceived sian translation only." However, he had left out in the final re-
orable attent'
he reported, an almanac in Yid- port mention of the fact that "the
inding
t t
dish and Russian was published means of extermination" of Jews
al a
ou- a
gn
during the last year in Biro- was discussed at Wannsee. He
e So et n the r • rt bidjan, as well as a volume of claimed he deleted the record in
inted p the a that' " ere verse by Ascher Schwartzman that manner on orders of Rein-
e J
i religio
Heydrich, chief of the Nazi
con- and selected works by David
ed, is haract
security police.
is uniri- Bergelson.
- dl even
unplea
In his questioning of Eich-
hi
at
The announced publication
of a Yiddish bi-monthly, en- mann Friday, Judge Binyamin
titled "Sovietische e i m - Halevi reminded Eichmann that
over 47 years of
land," has offered, according - this might be his last chance "to
to Dr. Goldmann, "some tell the truth" about himself, in
outlet to contemporary Soviet view of the approaching close of
-the trial, to make a "frank, sin-
Yiddish writers."
"There is no Jewish school , cere statement" about his role as
in the entire Soviet Union, nor wartime head of the Gestapo de-
is there a single general course partment for Jewish affairs. The
where Jewish language and his- defendant, however, adhered un-
tory is included in the curricu- changingly to his stand of having
been a minor official in the vas
lum."
for perfect results !
"During the past year, there Nazi murder machinery.
Eichmann said he agr
have been denials that a Jewish
WALL-TO -WALL
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Soviet Union." A Russian-He- Bad Ernest Grtber, a
brew dictionary, c o n t a i n i ng clergyman who came to
some 30,000 words, will be put to testify at the trial, w
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In other phases of Judge Hale-
vi's questioning, Eichmann ad-
mitted that Gestapo camouflage
and deceptions were worked out
in advance to harness the
doomed Jews to speed their own
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