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Eichmann Memoirs
Released
Israel has decided to release the memoirs
Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann wrote
prior to his execution in Israel in 1962.
Terusalem/JTA
he decision followed con-
sultations in the Justice
Ministry on whether to
make the document avail-
ible for Emory University professor
Deborah Lipstadt in the ongoing
,ondon defamation suit brought
gainst her by Holocaust revisionist
)avid Irving.
The trial has attracted wide atten-
ion, with many commentators saying
verdict against Lipstadt could
ncourage the belief that the
iolocaust was not a deliberate action
y the Nazi leaders.
.
Israel Attorney General Elyakim
',ubinstein said Feb. 28 that the deci-
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Along with publishing the 1,200-
page memoirs, Israel will provide a
copy of the manuscript for Lipstadt's
lawyer. Irving is suing Lipstadt and
her publisher, Penguin Books, charg-
ing they libeled him in Lipstadt's
1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The
Growing Assault on Truth and Memory.
Irving, who denies that Jews were
systematically exterminated at
Auschwitz, is claiming that Lipstadt
ruined his career by labeling him a
Holocaust denier and accusing him of
distorting historical data to suit his
ideological predilections.
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A closeup view of Nazi
Adolf Eichmanns
signature from his
jailhouse dial), is
pictured at the Israeli
state-archive department
in Jerusalem Feb. 28.
Eichmann wrote the
dial), while in jail om
1961 to 1962, a ter
Israeli agents captured
him in Argentina and
brought him to trial in
Israel. Eichmann
was executed by
hanging in 1962.
m to release the Eichmann memoirs
Plected Israel's "historic sense of
sponsibility" to do "everything pos-
>le to fight Holocaust denial."
Prior to Monday's decision, the
stice Ministry had been discussing
w to release the memoirs, which
ve been in the state archives for
arly four decades and have been
wed by only'a handful of
earchers.
Rubinstein said the request to use
in the Holocaust-denial suit
)edited the process.
Irving has claimed that Hitler did
not know until the final stages of
World War II about the Nazis'
"Final Solution" to exterminate
European Jewry.
During the Justice Ministry delib-
erations regarding the release of the
memoirs, it was pointed out that
Eichmann wrote several times that
Hitler was aware of the plan.
While Eichmann maintains in the
journal that he was only a mid-level
official carrying out orders, he does
not deny the Holocaust occurred.
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