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The Eichmann Files

(Israel Hayom) Tal Ariel Amir - Adolf Eichmann, who headed the Gestapo Department for Jewish Affairs, "displayed indefatigable energy, verging on overeagerness towards advancing the Final Solution." "[He] acted out of an inner identification with the orders that he was given and out of a fierce will to achieve the criminal objective," the Israeli judges wrote in their verdict and sentencing of Eichmann in December 1961. 1,506 documents were filed by the court as "smoking guns" against Eichmann. They show how he insisted on reaching every single Jew, how he fumed that there were too few Jews on the death trains, and how he personally ensured that children were also sent to Auschwitz. Chief Inspector Dr. Yossi Hemi, a historian and the deputy head of the Israel Police Heritage Museum, has taken all the evidence materials and turned them into a book, titled Bureau 06: The Interrogation of Adolf Eichmann by Israel Police.
2020-04-24 00:00:00
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