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"I am 100% convinced Eichmann had no mercy for anyone... he was a sworn Nazi through and through."

The Nazi record of a senior German official was supressed in Adolf Eichmanns 1960s trial

From the blog of David Rosenthal at The Times of Israel

         Justice Gavriel Bach relives his prosecution of Adolf Eichmann It was May of 1960, and Prime Minister David Ben Gurion has just made the shocking announcement that Nazi arch-criminal Adolf Eichmann had been captured by the Mossad and brought to Israel for trial. Days later, a young jurist named Gavriel Bach was given an assignment that would forever change his life. Bach was a lawyer in the State Prosecutor’s office when the chief architect of Adolf Hitler’s “Final Solution�...

As the youngest reporter covering the trial exactly 60 years ago, I heard testimony that showed Jews were not lacking in heroes during the Holocaust

Evil on trial: 60th anniversary of Eichmann in the dock 9 April 2021By AFP 2 min 34Approximate reading time For four months in 1961 the barbarism of Nazi Germany was focused on the gaunt bespectacled figure of Adolf Eichmann, standing alone in a dock in Jerusalem. His trial, one of the most charged in history, became a focus for the Jewish people to mourn the Holocaust while also raising difficult questions about the nature of evil and individual responsibility in war crimes. Here we look...

3,085 shares A portrait of Hans Globke, the under-secretary of state and chief of staff of the West German Chancellery, from 1953 to 1963. (CC BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons) An official who helped the Nazi regime frame the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws reinvented himself after World War II “as a spymaster, diplomat and kingmaker” and “played a key role” in the development of Israel’s nuclear program, according to a British newspaper report. Hans Globke was a senior civil servant in the...