Eichmann's 'Tricks' Exposed by Proseciudor
Slashing away at the contradic- Hungary an action which the for recalled testimony that Eich-
until noon Thursday to, com-
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"His creed was that falsehood plete his summation and that tions Eichmann himself had of- prosecutor described as mili- mann had told Himmler that
was whatever hindered the Servatius would begin his sum- fered in testimony, Hausner said tarily unnecessary—Eichmann these Hungarian Jews comprised
achievement of his aim," the mation Monday and complete it that by Eichmann's admission he entered the country with his biologically valuable specimens
had visited Auschwitz five or six dreaded. "special unit," with and that, if necessary to prevent
prosecutor said. "If Eichtnann that day).
Hausner, moving toward coin- times but only on transport mat- the goal of speedy deportation their escape, a new Hitler order
.regretted anything, it was the in-
completion of his work. If he pletion of his summation against ters. But, said the prosecutor, of all Hungarian Jews to Au- should be as issued.
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feels sorrow, it is because he was Eichmann, declared Wednesday Eichmann also admitted he did schwitz. The prosecutor said
that the former Gestapo colonel not attend a single meeting at the that Eichmann combed Hun-
not efficient enough."
Pointing to Eichmann's pride ' had used full authority to satis- Germany Railway Ministry—this gary from East to West. The
in Nazi Germany and the fact fy "his lust to exterminate Jews was done by subordinates in de- defendant and his accomplices
that 40 per cent of the German to the last" in Nazi dominated partment IV-BBB-Four, because used deception and false
Eichmann did not bother with promises to prevent any up-
electorate voted for Hitler in the Europe.
The prosecutor, opening the such technical details, since he rising or retardation of their
Reichstag elections that brought
's Jews
him to power, the prosecutor second and last day of his sum- was in charge of overall matters
to their deaths, the r
utor
The prosecutor then t
mation, forcefully attacked Eich-
asked:
de-1
! said. He
"What power was it that drew mann's claim that neither he nor one of Eichmann's istings in
they were re-
wit
Eichmann from across the Aus- his Gestapo department IV-BBB- fense turnings a
incriminating
to write deceptive post-
trian border," where the defend- Four for Jewish affairs had any trying to expl
mpting to pro
ds from a place called
ant was living at the time, "to authority over what happened in evidence. In
- " al s ee" purporti
• be a
cern for th
Germany to answer the call of the murder camps. The defend- his alleged
were
or cam' Th
hatred?" "The answer is that it ant had testified that the camp fare of his '-wish victimS, Eich-
nt to ng er
drew those whose hearts -were activities were under the sole mann had stifled' that he once
liters ha
work for a Jewish
ready to absorb it, those who authority of the department for obtained li
heed the call of the hatred-ridden administration of the SS, Hitler's acquaintanc 'n Auschwitz. Real- Nazis.
im showed he
izing that thi
id that Eich-
dictator who can then be led elite guard.
efense that he went to
wherever the leader chooses --
The prosecutor completed had authority ove
even to hell."
his summary statement Thurs- in the murder camp, Eichmann Hungary only to prepare time-
day with demand for the death then claimed he had intervened tables for the transport trains
The prosecutor said such
through his chief, General Muel- had been completely refuted by
men had cast aside all sem• penalty for Eichmann. He
cited voluminous proofs, many ler, who in turn had intervened later documents which proved
blance of "bourgeois morality
from Eichmann's own testi- with the commander of all con- that Eichmann was "more evil,
and freely used falsehood,
centration camps, General more merciless than Hitler him-
mony, which, he said, showed
deceit, slander, torture and
self."
murder. Yet in the eyes of that not only did Eichmann's Glueck.
."What an absurdity this is,"
Drawing heavily on the record
superior, Gestapo General
their friends they remained
Heinrich Mueller, have author-, the prosecutor thundered, "that of the Hungarian Holocaust,
decent citizens."
Eichmann wants us to believe
The prosecutor recalled that ity Over what happened to iu- that he mobilized the chief of the Hausner cited the evidence that
Eichmann had told his police in- mates of the camps but also GestaPo Bureau and the chief of when Eichmann was advised by
terrogator, before the trial began that Eichmann's own subordi- all the concentration camps to as- the German embassay that a num-
last April 11, that he was ready nates had authority to order sure that the Jew Storfer, should ber of Jews might be allowed to
emigrate to Palestine on Hitler's
to hang himself publicly for executions of camp inmates.
be employed as barracks order-
what he himself described as. the. Hausner cited Eichmann's own ly." The prosecutor added the orders, Eichmann sought to ap-
gravest crime in human history. admissions that in Theresien- final touch with a note that peal that decision. The prosecu-
But in 1945, his conscience stadt, a Czech camp, he had Storfer soon was executed in
was untroubled, the prosecutor authority to establish "Jewish Auschwitz.
said, and his language was quite police," that he was in charge
The prosecutor ripped into
different. It' was then that Eich- of deportations from Theresien- Eichmann's claim that his office
mann said he would jump laugh- stadt to the Auschwitz murder had no authority over matters in
jug into his grave because of the factory in Poland, and as witness, the Government General, the
knowledge that 5,000,000 Jews that he had testified he even at- Nazi term for German held Po-
had perished. Eichmann never tended the selection of de- land in. which Auschwitz and
intended to surrender or stand portees.
some of the other major slaugh-
The prosecutor recalled evi- ter camps were located. He cite
trial for his crimes, the prosecu-
Service from 54V.m. to 1 a.m. (E cept Sundays)
tor asserted, and therefore his dence that near the end of the Eichmann's admission that o
to 7 p.m.)
COCKT
statement of readiness to hang war Gestapo chief Heinrich Him- of his aides regularly attend
himself "is meaningless verbi- mler had wanted to improve con- conferences planning deport
age." ditions at Theresien,stadt hoping, tions from Nazi-held Poland.
The prosecutor turned to 'the to . bargain with the allies as
Events in Hungary, the pro-
material- recorded in Buenos a "moderate" Nazi, but, said the secutor said, clearly showed Eich-
Aires from Eichmann by a Dutch , prosecutor, Eichmann. wanted to mann's "dastardly lust to ex-
ARAGE
Nazi journalist; Willem Sassen, turn. Theresienstadt into the terminate Jews to the last." The
r mg a es to Top of Park Guests
and charged that even 12 years final annihilation center for what prosecutor recalled that in 1942
after the fall of Hitler's Germany. was left of European Jewry, Propaganda minister Josef Goeb-
Eichmann still used Nazi jargon, since Auschwitz had been seized bels wrote that the Nazi aim was
"though he no longer had a by the Russian army.
the extermination of Jews every-
Hausner cited documents
leader to goad him on. He re-
gretted that Jews still survived." showing that Eichmann inspected where in Europe and perhaps
The attorney general said that Maidanek, Chelmo and • other beyond. Hausner said that there-
his summation would contain slaughter centers. Auschwitz coin- fore the fact that in the second
half of 1942 Hungary's Jews
spoken and Written parts as well mandant Rudolf Hess, who was were
still aliVe was regarded as
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as lists of documents containing hanged by the Poles for his war a Reich matter and Eichmann's
additional‘ evidence. He said the crimes, testified that he had to department was in "f u m i n g
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majority lig legal- points would have a permit from Eichmann to
over the situation.
be submitted in writing and the visit Chelmo, the prosecutor said. anger"
'When the Germans occupied
He said that reports on the de- I
factual points orally.
Hausner'- asked conviction of portation of Jews to the com-
Eichmann on all 15 counts of his mando squads directed by Odilo
Globocnik, Nazi police -chief for
indictment.
Servatius who . is reducing German-held Poland, were sent
his summation to one day has only to Eichmann's department
promised to provide court trans- and not to the SS administrati
lators with a text a day in ad- which Eichmann had clai
vance so they can prepare the in charge of the cam
conclusi
"The only possi
exact Hebrew translation without
nistratio_
any delay. The goal of the speed- is that the SS a
the extermina-
up is to keep the trial from run-1 no authority o
Eichmann's claim
ning into the general elections tion camps a
on Aug. 15 which would be a in this res et has ne suppor
the d ment
certainty had the original summa- whatever"
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The
Interrogation of Eichmann , in
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his Jerusalem cell by Dr. Diet- at Aus
ed,
rich Zweig the West German ob- adthini ation, Hau
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server at the trial who seeks in- but he id even in
hich
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formation on Nazi war criminals was Ei mann's of
hich transports o
awaiting trial in west Germany, . decided
should be
has produced no useful results, . doomed
Although Eichmann has not re- and borne and
fused to answer questions from which allowed to live a little
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Dr. Zweig, the replies reportedly longer. The prosecutor' said
there
was
even
a
difference
in
were of the same evasive nature
as those characterizing his trial the treatment between Jews
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testimony in his own defense. shipped by Eichmann to Au-
He has. not, so far in this inter- schwitz and Jews sent there as
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anti-Jewish
laws,
such
as
cur-
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Between Schaefer and Wyoming
selection for slaughter while
Landau announced Wednesday
those
sent
as
individuals
were
morning that the court trying
considered criminal prisoners
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Eichmann was adjourning at
WESTOWN
and had slightly better treat-
1st and Elm—Wyandotte
noon Wednesday until Thurs-
Wyoming at Fenkeli
ment than those shipped by
day morning. He announced
Eichmann.
that Hausner would be given
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