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Officers with dogs, and we were made to march. it was heavy snow, and it seemed implausible, but we marched 60 kilometers that night. >> reporter: thousands of people died during that brutal death march. little did goldman gilad know he would go on to play a pivotal role as an investigator in the trial of adolf eichmann. >> translator: i was in my investigation room, and when he entered the room, i saw a poor, frightened person shaking. and in comparison to eichmann in his ss uniform, this uber ...

>> 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. >> that was the sentence for one person. but what about the other eichmanns who fled germany and died at good old ages and were never brought to trial? you can give a sentence for one person, but you cannot avenge, there is no vengeance, for what was done to the jewish people. >> reporter: after eichmann had exhausted all of his legal appe...

60 years ago, we saw the face of evil

When Charlemagnes empire was divided among his sons in 847, France and Germany were the western and eastern part, with a smaller, unstable strip in the...

The word banal is often used to describe something that is obvious, ordinary, or as the dictionary puts it: “so lacking in originality.” But this ordinary word acquired some significance when Hannah Arendt, a political theorist, coined the phrase “banality of evil” as she composed her thoughts after watching the…

60 years ago, we saw the face of evil

From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

Peter Longerich's forensic history chillingly shows how the 1942 meeting was a key juncture on the road to the Final Solution

The 58-year-old suspect, identified as Aylson Proenca Doyle Linhares, was arrested on Tuesday after parents from his local neighborhood reported him for allegedly abusing their 12-year-old son.

Belated justice as laxness in prosecuting ordinary Germans for Nazi-era crimes fades