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Israeli Prosecutor Gideon Hausner then introduced a series of secret wartime documents that seemed aimed more at the Western Allies than at Eichmann. In a 1944 interview in London, Zionist Elder Dr. Chaim Weizmann begged then Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to start negotiations with the Nazis through neutral channels to get the Jews out of Europe. Eden reportedly answered that the "enemy is playing a devilish game," adding vaguely that "moreover, we have to carry America and Russia along with us." In July 1944, Weizmann urged that, as a desperate move. Auschwitz should be bombed in the hope of knocking...
Long accounts of Jewish suffering and degradation at Nazi hands were beginning to get on Israeli nerves. Tel Aviv Magistrate Moshe Bejski was recounting how 15,000 inmates of Plaszow camp had been herded together to watch hangings in 1943. Snapped Prosecuting Attorney Gideon Hausner: "Fifteen thousand people were standing there and only a few hundred guards were facing you-why didn't you revolt and charge and attack these guards?" Staggered by the question, Bejski asked permission to sit, blurted: "After 18 years I cannot describe the feeling of fear . . . there was belief the war would...
Israeli Prosecutor Gideon Hausner delivered an eleven-hour statement, grimly reciting the long calendar of murder. "When I stand before you, judges of Israel," cried thin, balding Hausner, "I do not want to stand alone. Here with me at this moment stand 6,000,000 prosecutors." Muffled sobbing came from the spectators. Some were so overcome that they had to rush from the court...
Eichmann insists he is not a mass mur derer as charged by Prosecutor Gideon Hausner. He describes himself as "a man of average character, with good qualities and many faults." He plays the violin. He adds: "At heart, I am a very sensitive man. I simply cannot look at any suffering without trembling...
...effort to stamp out British influence, South Africa's Afrikaner government has taken the Queen's face off the postage stamps, removed the wigs from the heads of Parliament officials, and renamed army regiments (the Midlands Regiment became the Gideon Scheepers). But no Nationalist will be happy until a republic is declared, removing once and for all the Crown's technical sovereignty...