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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...

On the nations values and our votes. because of you, democracy survived. but only because of the women and men of the u.s. capitol police force, washington, d.c. metropolitan police department, other law enforcement agencies who once again literally put their bodies on the line to protect our democracy. >> joe biden there at that national memorial service. coming up, a special report from cnns elie honig, 60 years after the trial of adolph ike man, the nazi responsible for the murders of milli...

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 ...

>> gabriel bach, now 94 years old, was one of the prosecutors who tried eichmann in israels newly formed court system. >> the courtroom, we had a special room where all the prosecutors sat together and the defense counsel sat together. and then they had -- in order to protect the accused, they had a special glass booth where he was kept. this was really a very, very special moment, that here in a jewish state, a jewish trial, we are representatives of the jewish people. and we can show that the ...