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It was a -- it was a tragedy of the jewish people, so a lot of it wasnt spoken about. until eichmann. >> during the period of 1939 to 1945, caused the killing of millions of jews in his capacity as the person responsible for the execution of the nazi plans or the physical extermination of the jews known as the final solution. >> gabriel bach now 94 years old was one of the prosecutors who tried eichman in the newly formed court system. >> it was one of these very, very special moments here in a ...

Point. >> you have to understand now everyone knows the holocaust with a capital "h." when we grew up, this was not a thing. the holocaust was not a thing. it was a private tragedy, it was a tragedy of the jewish people. so a lot of it wasnt spoken about until eichmann. >> together with others during the period of 1939 to 1945, caused the killing of millions of jews in his capacity as the person responsible for the execution of the nazis plan for the physical extermination of the jews, known as ...

Routine. this is how it was arranged. and my task in this was just a tiny particle in this. >> i am not beating about the bush. i was in hungary, also one of those receiving orders and not giving orders. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: he lied through and through. he was acting. he was acting all the time. >> september, 1939, the accused committed acts of expelling, uprooting, and exterminating the population in coordination with -- >> reporter: finally in december, 1961, the trial ...

For the holocaust memorial day trust and she spends a lot of time thinking about the contemporary resonances of nuremberg, and she says this, "justice cannot be "secured without truth and for survivors, "the judgement at nuremberg were not the whole truth". no judgement is the whole truth and nuremberg was like any other tribunal in that sense. its a partial truth — its what the judges decide. for example, the judges decided they couldnt look at anything that happened before 1939 because of th...

This had never happened before in human history — that the leaders of a state, germany vanquished, should be put on trial before an international tribunal — this was a completely new thing. and as part of that process, new crimes were invented — genocide, the killing of groups, crimes against humanity, the killing of individuals. theres a problem, of course, these crimes did not exist in 1939 or 1942 as such, and so they were applied retroactively. well, they werent on the charge sheet, wh...

Hes literally been liberated a few weeks earlier and they are coming down on him like a tonne of bricks. its disconcerting. and thats a change of values. today, it would be done differently. heres a quote from claudia hyde — she works for the holocaust memorial day trust and she spends a lot of time thinking about the contemporary resonances of nuremberg, and she says this — "justice cannot be secured without truth and for survivors, thejudgement no judgement is the whole truth and nuremberg...

No, it was a revolutionary moment. this had never happened before in human history — that the leaders of a state, germany vanquished — should be put on trial before an international tribunal — this was a completely new thing. and as part of that process, new crimes were invented — genocide, the killing of groups, crimes against humanity, the killing of individuals. theres a problem, of course — these crimes did not exist in 1939 01’1942 as such, and so they were applied retroactively...

Like a tonne of bricks. its disconcerting. and thats a change of values. today, it would be done differently. heres a quote from claudia hyde — she works for the holocaust memorial day trust and she spends a lot of time thinking about the contemporary resonances of nuremberg, and she says this, "justice cannot be secured without truth and for survivors, the judgement at nuremberg were not the whole truth". no judgement is the whole truth and nuremberg was like any other tribunal in that sense....

Of verdicts, does it strike you that they should be seen as a sort of extraordinary positive landmark or do you now focus on some of their shortcomings? no, it was a revolutionary moment. this had never happened before in human history — that the leaders of a state, germany vanquished, should be put on trial before an international tribunal — this was a completely new thing. and as part of that process, new crimes were invented — genocide, the killing of groups, crimes against humanity, th...