Word: eichmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government of Israel last week executed Adolf Eichmann with all deliberate speed...
...four months; after he was found guilty of "contributing" to the Nazi mass murder of 6,000,000 Jews, his appeal of the verdict was considered for nine weeks by the Israeli Supreme Court, and then denied, with the remark that even death was not an adequate penalty for Eichmann. As a last recourse, Eichmann made a personal plea for clemency to Israel's President Izhak Ben-Zvi. Within 34 hours a prison commissioner told Eichmann that his plea had been rejected. He grimaced slightly, said, "Jawohl...
Hull at first coldly visualized Eichmann "with a rope around his neck," and although now "God has given me a slight feeling of compassion," the preacher still feels that Eichmann had a fair trial and ought to hang for his crimes. "I'm not interested in his body," he says. "But I am interested in his soul. He should be given a chance to save it. As Christians, we are obliged to offer him that much...
...move to Jerusalem" while attending services one night at Winnipeg's Zion Apostolic Church. He settled down in Palestine in 1935, following his ordination to the ministry. A strong believer in Israeli independence, Hull has long enjoyed the favor of Israel's government, and after Eichmann's conviction Hull offered his services as a spiritual counselor. Eichmann, who had been brought up in Austria's Evangelical Church, refused at first, agreed to one meeting on the advice of Lawyer Robert Servatius, and now seems to welcome Hull's visits...
...bring Eichmann to the point where "God can reach his heart," Hull has tried to make Eichmann see that God's judgment of his soul is more important than the Israeli court's judgment of his body. At their first conference last month, Hull asked Eichmann to turn in his Bible to a text in Ecclesiastes. Eichmann hesitated. "Isn't that in the Old Testament?" he asked. When Hull said it was, Eichmann answered: "I won't read it. I don't believe in Jewish stories and fables." Patiently, Hull explained: "I've laid...