Facing the Glass Booth

Facing the Glass Booth

The Eichmann Trial

This Courtroom

Lies Beyond Time...

Adolf Eichmann's trial began on April 11, 1961, in Jerusalem. The prosecutor was Gideon Hausner, the Attorney General. The indictment included 15 counts, among them: crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity. To all the charges, Eichmann replied: "In the spirit of the indictment - not guilty." Hausner's opening speech lasted 8 hours, during which he asked:

"Days will come and people will ask themselves: But how could this have happened? How was this possible in the midth of the 20th century?"

Criminal Case 40/61

Attorney General Hausner during the trial

Who Was Adolf Eichmann?

SS Lieutenant-Colonel who was Chief of the Jewish Office of the Gestapo during World War II and implemented the "Final Solution", which aimed at the total extermination of European Jewry. In 1934, he joined the Nazi Security Service (SD), later on he became the official responsible for the "Jewish question" at the Berlin head office. after the Anschluss of Austria in1938, he became the head of the “Office for Jewish [Forced] Emigration” in Vienna.

The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, consolidated Eichmann’s position as the “Jewish specialist” of the S.S, and Reinhard Heydrich entrusted him with implementing the “Final Solution.” From that moment on, large-scale deportations began almost immediately to extermination camps.

Towards the end of the war, Eichmann played a leading role in the deportation of the Hungarian Jewry to Auschwitz Birkenau.

The Original Glass Booth in which Adolf Eichmann sat during his trial in Jerusalem, 1961. It now stands in the Ghetto Fighters' House Museum.

A quote from the film you can't forget...

I am not to blame

I am guilty from a human point of view

I was in uniform

I had to comply according to procedure

I dealt with only a small part

It is the responsibility of those who gave the orders

I did not consider myself as responsible

I had to follow orders

It was not intentional or voluntary

I signed, but the orders were not given by me

I cannot be held responsible

I had to apply according to my orders

It has nothing to do with who I am

I was just following orders

All There is to Know About Adolph Eichmann

EYES -

Medium

Medium

HAIR -

Medium

WEIGHT -

Medium

HEIGHT -

None

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES -

Ten

NUMBER OF FINGERS -

Ten

NUMBER OF TOES -

Medium

INTELLIGENCE -

What did you expect?

Oversize incisors?

Talons?

Madness?

Green saliva?

Leonard Cohen

The Other Planet...

When I fell out of Auschwitz, (After liberation) I couldn't believe my eyes. I saw that nothing has changed here in the world, the same sky, the same earth. I couldn't accept it. After a while, I learned that two things had changed during the time I was there: penicillin and the atom were created... Thirty years passed until I realized that Auschwitz was not "another planet", as I thought before... It was not the devil or God who created Auschwitz, but me and you, just as it was not the devil who created the nuclear bomb, but me and you - man. Because the finger that will press the button that can destroy the world, is not the finger of God, but the finger of man. And Hitler was not a devil, he was a man." Yehiel Dinor regarding his testimony during the Eichmann trial