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>> im here from georgia. we dont have an election this year for the governor. but i know what happens here matters across this country. you see, when you decide who is going to lead, you people decide whether theyre going to follow. and here in virginia you have the chance to set the stage do. we go in the direction of the future or do we regular regress to a past that is dark and bitter and does not believe in all of us? >> so, jim, you see here this effort to really use national issues to insp...

Committed acts of expelling, uprooting and exterminating the population in coordination with -- >> finally in december 1961, the trial was over, and the verdict was in. the court found eichmann guilty and sentenced him to death. >> here was a man who was appointed to be in charge of causing the carrying out of the murder of millions of people. so if any person deserves it, it was him. >> after eichmann had excused all of his legal appeals, he was hanged just a few minutes past midnight on june 1...

They had captured in him in argentina where hed been living as a fugitive for a decade. >> your grandma is here, shes the fourth from the right. >> right. so the vast majority of the people in this picture did not make it. my father, the son of two holocaust survivors remembers the trial as a turning 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 o...

>> translator: i was about 17 when the nazis took over in july 1942 my parents and my sister were taken onto a train. we did not know where at the time. but later found out it was the belzieg extermination camp. the last time i saw them was on my birthday. it was july 26th, 1942, and i saw them for 15 minutes. >> like my grandmother, michael goldman gilad now 96 years old lost most of his family to the holocaust. he survived the horrors of multiple concentration camps including auschwitz. and he...

Prosecutor, suddenly couldnt utter a sound. >> eichmann had practically unlimited power to declare who was to be killed among the jews, chronologically and by segment of population, what countries geographically and throughout. >> reporter: after months of the prosecution presenting its case, eichmann finally took the stand in his own defense. >> translator: i wanted it to be clear to everyone in the world that this was -- this man was given a just trial, that he was given the possibility to hav...

Eichmann repeatedly claimed he was just following orders. >> translator: i did not give these orders. whether the people should be taken to their death or not. this was the administrative routine. this is how it was arranged. and my task in this was just a tiny particle in this. >> translator: i am not beating about the bush. i was in hungary, one of those receiving orders, not giving orders. >> he lied through and through. he was acting. he was acting all the time. >> september 1939, the accuse...

Systematic execution of more than 6 million jews during world war ii. >> your grandma is here. shes the fourth from the right pier. >> the vast majority of the people in this picture did not survive. >> reporter: my father, the son of two holocaust survivors, remembers the trial as a turning point. >> you have to understand, now everyone knows the holocaust, 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 -- it was a tragedy o...

Several months. they went through thousands upon thousands of documents, piecing together the horrific events and building a volume of evidence that they hoped could prove eichmanns role beyond a shadow of a doubt. >> translator: one of the documents was from poland documenting a single transport to auschwitz in november 1943. and it has a list of numbers of those who arrived. those who were sent to the camps, those sent to the crematoriums. i realized my number is part of that list. 161135. so ...

Today, for justice and the threat anti-semitism and ethnic hatred still pose today. >> reporter: 60 years ago, the world saw evil. in 1961, millions of people across the globe watched as adolf eichmann, the notorious nazi official known as the architect of the holocaust, stood trial in jerusalem for crimes against humanity. >> but i do remember it happening, and i remember more the aspect of -- i think i -- it struck me as more, they got this guy. and i remember from that point on, it certainly ...

Witnesses to the nazi campaign of terror shrinking by the day, the risk of holocaust distortion and denial is a threat that makes the lessons of the eichmann trial morrelle relevan than ever. >> jews will not replace us! >> reporter: the fight against hate based on race, religion, ethnicity, sex, is a battle that is still being fought. white supremacy and racial hatred remain serious threats, and theyre on the rise. >> translator: with the death of eichmann, the murderous ideology of nationalist...