specialist
TitleThe specialist; Adolf Eichmann: the accused
Author
Call numberv407
Object numberv407
Place of publicationFrance
PublisherMemento
Year of publication
1961
MaterialAudio-visual material
NotesProduced entirely from footage recorded in 1961 in Jerusalem at the Eichmann trial by Leo Hurwitz
video
video
Description
Lt. Colonel SS, Adolf Eichmann was responsible for the expulsion of Jews, Slovenians, and Gypsies from the Reich between 1938 and 1941, and later, their deportation from Europe to the death camps. Hiding in Argentina, he was captured by the Israeli secret service in 1960. His trial took place in Jerusalem the following year and was the first public event ever recorded on video. This stresses the contrast between monstrosity of the crime and the mediocrity of the man