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T HE D ETIWIT JEWIS H N EW S — Friday, March 30, 1962 —

Final Ruling on Eichmann Due in a Month

Ilatislier Insists Five-Judge Court

- Uphold

Death Sentence for Nazi

camps. His signature or tele-
phone call sealed the fate of
thousands as the factories of
death worked around the
clock at his orders."
The prosecutor appealed to
the judges "to see him in this
light and in this light I plead
you render your judgment.
The long night of horror and
blood was his doing. His was
the murder machine operating
over many years. For years
this man did nothing else but
send people to their death
after they had been humili-
ated, tortured, tormented. The
majority of the house of
Israel was destroyed, a third
of its people slaughtered."
The prosecutor continued:
More than a million children
were killed—the pride and hope

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to The Jewish News)

hibits produced by the prosecu-
tion for the trial, the prosecu-
tor detholished the defense
arguments that Eichmann had
handled his job entirely as a
bureaucrat and with "objectiv-
ity." The prosecutor cited an
occasion when the Nazi Foreign
Ministry intervened against the

introduced. He said this was
necessary because the court
could not admit beforehand
evidence which would turn out
to be speculative.

called as witnesses, and he
pulled the blunder of listing
two among them who are no
longer among the living — Dr.

Chaim Weizmann and Reuven

Shiloah.,
JERUSALEM—Attorney Gen-
Special interest was aroused
eral Gideon Hausner Wednes-
in Dr. Servatius' request that
day urged the five justice panel
Dr. Globke be called as an
hearing Adolf Eichmanns ap-
deportation of an inventor
"expert witness."
peal from a death sentence to
named Abraham Weuss because
The Cologne attorney hinted
uphold the verdict and the
of a valuable invention he had
in his appeal that a Nuremberg
sentence so that "whoever fol-
developed which was taken by
war crimes trial document im-
lows in his path" will know
the Nazis. According to the
plicating Eichmann in the de-
that "his end will be shame.
documentation, Eichmann as
velopment of the use of poison
his punishment death."
head of the Bureau for Jewish
gas for the murder of Jews
Concluding his rebuttal to the
Affairs in the Gestapo, had as-
might have been falsified. He
defense presented by Dr. Rob-
serted that since the process
retreated promptly, however,
ert Servatius, The Nazis de-
had already • been registered
when he was asked by one of
fense counsel, the prosecutor
there was no reason for any
the five Supreme Court justices
commented on the West Ger-
further "personal interest" in
Hausner pointed out that the constituting the appeals tribu-
man attorney's citation of Hos-
the inventor and that therefore 1,000,000-word police interroga- nal if he was suggesting that
seau and Montesque against
the "usual procedure" ship- tion transcript had been pre- the American prosecution at
capital punishment. Hausner-
ment to a death camp—should ceded by Eichmann's recital of the Nuremberg trials had faked
said the most fitting reply to
be adopted.
many major facts to a Nazi the document.
that argument was to cite Eich-
The prosecutor referred to friend, Willem Stassen, when
He also declared he would
mann's Own statement that - re-
a statement by Herman Goer- he was still in Argentina. Thus,
appeal to the Council of Eu-
morse is useless and therefore
ing,
made
to
the
American
said
Hausner,
Eichmann
had
rope, an advisory body with
I cannot express remorse." of a people. Humanity cannot Judge Michael Musmano at
undergone, during the , months which Israel is not associated,
Eichmann was found guilty by find a fit punishment. There is the Nuremberg war crimes
he
dictated
his
story
to
Stassen,
a Jerusalem district court of no penalty befitting his deeds.
trials, that Eichmann was "a full-dress rehearsal" that re- if Eichmann was not extradited
to West Germany for trial. It
having had a key role in the Let the court decide and sent-
freshed his memory several
ence
him
and
let
history
judge
Nazi wartime slaughter of six
affairs. He emphasized that years before he told many of was not clear just how mean-
ingful this was, since the West
million European Jewish men. him and sentence him to shame Goering could have men-
the same facts to the Israeli German Government has made
women and children and was for eternity."
tioned one of the more police questioning him.
it plain it has no interest what-
In the final impassioned ap- prominent members of the
sentenced to death by hanging
Hausner recalled Eichmann's ever in extraditing the former
peal the prosecutor told the Nazi hierarchy had he been
last Dec. 15.
over-ruling
of
other
officials
Gestapo colonel and the Bonn
Dr Servatius made a final five justices: "Let it be said seeking a scapegoat.
when he had Jews sent to con-
statement Thursday on behalf in Jerusalem clearly and un-
Eichmann, seated in his glass centration camps. "He was not Foreign Off/b6 last year re-
jected Eichmann's request for
of the former Gestapo colonel equivocally that whoever em- enclosed bulletproof prisoner's
and the panel of five supreme barks on the ways of an Eich- dock. became more nervous and . ,a mere transport officer or intervention.
Keeper
of
the
timetables,"
said
court justices then adjourned mann. who tries to obtain rule tense as the prosecutor ripped '
;Hausner. "He was obsessed
for abOut a month before re- and power by Eichmann-like away at the points Servatius with
the task of exterminating HEBREW CORNER
turning a ruling on the appeal. evils. whoever follows in his had made in seeking to have
the
Jews."
Justice Yitzhal Olshan, pr ,.. path. his end will be shame, the death sentence annuled or
The Servatius argument about
siding judge and president his punishment death."
reduced to a prison term. The Eichmann's "modest" life was
The fuel is the food of the machine.
He declared that there would Nazi wrote with feverish speed ,
of the Supreme Court, indi-
attacked by Hausner ,
h 'it runs the machines in the factories
be " no sense
" in the punish- on the pad before him as he showed
cated Wednesday that the
that the • Nazi's quiet and the wheels of the cars on the
roads. Like man that needs bread.
court probably would not al- meat laid down in Israel's law
notes to be handed on manner of family living applied so the machine needs fuel.
low Dr. Servatius to call any against Nazis and collaborators prepared
to his defense attorney.
The countries that in its soil are
only
to
the
period
he.
was
hid-
re-
"if
maximum
punishment
will
new witnesses as he hal
wells, *called "black, gold," are
The Attorney General voiced ing in Argentina. "During the oil
considered rich countries. because
quested. This became appar• not he meted out to him.. I opposition
to a defense request height of his splendor," the the
countries that need oil buy the
ent when the prosecutor ex- urge that the apnea: be rejected for the calling of Ernest Wetzel.
and pay for it a high price.
ze
- Attorney General noted, citing fuel
Our country brings oil from far
pressed objection to intro- against both the judgment and
a former Nazi, to support Eich- testimony previously entered in off and only a small part is taken
duce at the hearing the con- the sentence." The prosecutor
out of the oil wells in Israel. It is
stand that he had noth- the trial, "Eichmann lived in a
to transport the oil in ships
tent of a manuscript Eich• bitters- quoted Eichmann's mann's
ing to do with the introduction private villa, commanded three necessary
(tankers) or through pipes from the
mann wrote during his year testimony in his own defense
se a, and
it and bring it
poison gas for the murder automobiles and two chauffeurs, tRoedthr
of imprisonment before his when the Nazi said: "I already of
of Jewish and other victims of had at least two known mis-
In the State of Israel there was set
trial began last April.
said there is no place for re- the Nazi regime. The prosecu-
up in partnership with the govern-
tresses."
ment the Israel fuel company called
Dr. Servatius has contended pentence and remorse. Remorse for cited an Israel Supreme
— the purpose of it being to
A spokesman for the Israel "Delek"
that Eichmann wanted to ex- would be good for little chil- Court ruling that no new wit-
secure the Israeli market a steady
supply of fuel in all times, so that
press his "inner feelings" about dren. Repentence is of no im- nesses could appear at an ap- Commissioner of Prisons de-
we should not be dependent on for-
the Nazi genocide and his role •portance and cannot change peal hearing unless it was nied reports that Eichmann
eign forces for the importing of fuel
is suffering from frequent to Israel.
in it as head of the Gestapo things at all."
proven that their evidence was
"Delek" — the Israel oil company
Bureau for Jewish Affairs.
Before completing his pre- unobtainable at the lower court heart attacks, but stated that
supplies also benzine and oil for
the Nazi criminal of late private and public vehicles that
Justi•e Olshan told the pro- sentation the prosecutor -re- hearing.
travel on the roads of the country, to
complained of "dizzinesa."
secutor that he need not pursue called the infamous death
through
Hausner cited a British ruling
Dr. Servatius, in his intro- industry
and spread
agriculture
— to Math.
stations
from Dan
this matter.
march of Hungarian Jews from that new evidence for appeal
Translation
of
Hebrew
column
pub-
ductory remarks to his appeal its
The prosecutor also objected Budapest to Vienna in the must be capable of being be-' for
Eichmann, listed 15 people ushed by Brith Ivrith Olamith.
to Servatius' request that ar- closing days of the war when lieved.
he would like again to be
rangements he made to call no more trains were available
Justice Olshan told Servatius
a as a witness before the appeals to Eichmann's department for that he recalled from past legal
hearing Dr. flans Globke, State the transport of the last re- proceedings that admission of
Secretar• to West German maints of still living European new witnesses required an ad-
chancellor Konrad Adenauer Jewry. The prosecutor, who vance sworn affadavit outlining
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as - an expert witness" on the demonstrated at the district the gist of the evidence to be
Nazi Nuremberg laws. He said court trial that Eichmann had
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Concerning Israel's juris-
diction, Hausner told the
high tribunal, the fact is that,
under international law, a
court need not be concerned
with the manner in which
the prisoner had been
brought before the court if
his offense is against the law.
Even if those who abducted
the man are liable to arrest,
trial or damage suits, Haus-
ner said, the validity of the
prosecution's case is not af-
fected.

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