Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opinion the trial of Adolf Eichmann is not only illegal but a gross injustice. With three Israeli judges who cannot help but be prejudiced presiding over the trial, certainly any contesting of the legality will be denied. Certainly our world has enough problems to take care of without being distracted by a mass vengeance by a country that did not even exist when the crimes against its people took place. It's not that I like Eich, but, in the words of someone much wiser than any of us, "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord...
...near an abandoned airfield, surrounded by a swarm of agents, ordered to stay put. At one point, some of the council members announced that they were going to leave, even if it meant getting shot, but were put off with promises. Eventually, Kennedy's Latin American affairs specialists, Adolf A. Berle and Arthur Schlesinger, flew in from Washington to reassure them...
...While Adolf Eichmann sat listening attentively in his glass cage, a tape recording of his police interrogation filled the silent room...
...Hausner said sarcastically that "if the swastika flag were again to be raised with shouts of 'Sieg heil I', if there were again to resound the hysterical screams of the Führer, if again the high-tension barbed wires of the extermination centers were set up-Adolf Eichmann would rise, salute and go back to his work of oppression and butchery." Eichmann drew together his thin lips and stared with stony disapproval at the prosecutor...
...Adolf Hitler, like most nightmares, is a pleasure to forget. Nevertheless, the world in 1961 has apparently gained what might be called an anesthetic distance from the monstrous paperhanger, and has suddenly decided to re-examine the great plague he personified. The Eichmann trial is making headlines, and William L. Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich has been steadily topping the bestseller list. Now a Swedish Jew named Erwin Leiser has compiled from captured German film-newsreels, Nazi propaganda pictures, Wehrmacht battle films, secret police footage-this calm, fair, objective and appalling picture history of Hitlerism...