The Capture And Trial Of Adolf Eichmann By Moshe Pearlman
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The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Author: Moshe Pearlman
language: en
Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster
Release Date: 1963
Here, told for the first time in the United States, are the authentic, inside details of the most astounding capture and trial of the century. Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi official involved in murder on a scale unknown to history, had escaped arrest for fifteen years. But the families of his victims had never given up hope of bringing him to trial. The chase was on. Here are the excitements and the frustrations of the pursuit, and the evasions of the quarry. Here are the hitherto unreported details of his kidnaping by Israelis. No one has yet been able to describe this chase with authority. It has now been done by Moshe Pearlman, who has held distinguished positions in the army and the government of Israel. The result is a story more thrilling than any novel. It is followed by a dramatic account of Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem. Chapter by chapter, the record piles up its mounting tension as the man in the dock, battling for his life, is confronted by some of his victims, witnesses who had miraculously survived Hitler's "final solution of the Jewish problem." The climax comes with the court's verdict and Eichmann's execution. The book makes exciting reading both for those who followed the trial and for those who still know little of the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews. Interwoven in the narrative is the only complete documentation in English of the courtroom proceedings, so that lawyer and layman will read it with equal absorption. This is a book which is certain to remain for many years the classic work on the life and death fo Adolf Eichmann and on the history of Jewish suffering under the Nazis.
The Capture And Trial Of Adolf Eichmann
Author: Moshe Pearlman
language: en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date: 2015-11-06
Includes, as an Appendix, a full text of the Indictment, translated from the Hebrew. The horror trial of the 20th century has been that of Adolf Eichmann, Obersturmbannführer of Germany’s death camps—the man who, between 1939-1945, in one way or another, caused the killing of six million men, women, and children. Out of mountains of courtroom evidence, both live and documentary, Pearlman renders a relevant, reliable account of the drama. The whole story is here: from the capture in Argentina, to the world-famed image of the twitching man in the glass-enclosed dock as he listened to the sagas of the ghetto fighters, the confrontation of the accused and witnesses who came back as if from the dead, the indictment enunciated by Hausner, and the defense arguments of Servatius. And lastly the words of Eichmann himself: “I received orders and I executed orders.” A gripping read.
Come to This Court and Cry
In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “butcher of Riga,” Latvian Herberts Cukurs. Cukurs was shot. On his corpse, the assassins left pages from the closing speech of the chief British prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg: “After this ordeal to which mankind has been submitted, mankind itself . . . comes to this Court and cries: ‘These are our laws—let them prevail!’” Years later, the Latvian prosecutor general began investigating the possibility of redeeming Cukurs for his past actions. Researching the case, Linda Kinstler discovered that her grandfather, Boris, had served in Cukurs’s killing unit and was rumored to be a double agent for the KGB. The proceedings, which might have resulted in Cukurs’s pardon, threw into question supposed “facts” about the Holocaust at the precise moment its last living survivors—the last legal witnesses—were dying. Rich with scholarly detective work and personal reflection, Come to This Court and Cry is a fearlessly brave examination of how history can become distorted over time, how easily the innocent are forgotten, and how carelessly the guilty are sometimes reprieved.