Word: hausner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bureaucrat Eichmann had performed meticulously; anything outside routine offended him. Prosecutor Gideon Hausner quoted the defendant's wartime notes complaining of a Berlin Chancellery official who wanted special help in disposing of some people he found particularly irksome: "This is the most important shop in the entire Reich, and here this uncle asks me whether he could have a few trains. And he is very courteous and cordial, because he wants to stoke the stove with a few idiots...
...Poetic license." replied Eichmann. "The main thing was to make the book ... a bestseller." When he nonetheless attempted to correct a handwritten marginal note, Hausner asked...
...permission, at one point, to step from his glass cage and point out on the map locations of German-occupied territories. Every policeman in court rose. Three crowded behind him. Eichmann moved the pointer uncertainly, trying to locate Bialystok. With the air of a teacher dismissing a nervous student, Hausner took the pointer away and found the place...
...greater crime than the murder of six million people?" demanded Hausner. "No," replied Eichmann. "But I was not dealing with extermination...
...Shrilly Hausner asked if Eichmann believed that the Nürnberg death sentences carried out against top Nazis were just. Eichmann replied with a weak jawohl. When court recessed, Eichmann leaned forward dazedly, his head almost touching the glass of his protective cage...