Word: eichmanns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eichmann's point quickly became evident, and he repeated it so often in such bureaucratese that some of the spectators literally fell asleep: he had been "only a small cog" with no real authority in the Nazi machine. "I could not anticipate. I could not influence. My status was too modest," he said. "I was only dealing with train timetables and technical aspects of evacuation transports." In this small role, rationalized Eichmann, he actually helped the Jews: "It cannot be denied that this orderliness was to some extent to the benefit of the people who were deported...
Barbed Wire? Even embittered Israelis were forced to admit that Eichmann was a good witness, however garrulous and diffuse. He claimed that as a timetable technician he at first had no idea that the ultimate destinations of the trains were death camps. He drew angry snorts of laughter when he testified that he could not understand why he was asked to supply barbed wire, "which was in short supply," for every carload of deported Jews. But on one point, the enlargement of his department's responsibility to include confiscation of Jewish property and cancellation of Jewish citizenship, Eichmann...
...Globke had in fact been placed in his job by the German Catholic hierarchy as a kind of spy and agent for the resistance movement. Globke's defenders have always claimed that he rewrote the laws as loosely as possible to aid the Jews, and Adenauer promptly blasted Eichmann's charges last week as inaccurate...
...Counsel. Eichmann was so eager that he often gave Servatius directions, prodding his counsel to ask him questions. On one occasion Eichmann was so wrapped up in his notes and papers that Judge Landau coldly had to remind him to stand when addressed by the court. Eichmann's face flushed with momentary anger as he looked up; then, realizing where he was, he jumped up apologizing...
...week's end Eichmann's verbal prancing was wearing a little thin. After an Eichmann foray into the minutiae of the Nazi bureaucracy's workings, Judge Landau snapped: "You were not requested to give lectures. Asked a specific question, give a specific reply...