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...Supreme Court, and on May 31, 1962, he was executed by hanging.) The apparent purpose of his memoir was to bolster his chances of a reprieve and to arouse public sympathy. Eichmann asked his defense attorney, Robert Servatius, to seek permission for its publication. The trial prosecutor, Gideon Hausner, refused; then Premier David Ben-Gurion ordered that the manuscript be suppressed for 15 years and placed in the state archives. Its existence was known to only a few people...
Portions of the memoir will be contained in an updated Hebrew edition of Hausner's 1966 book on the trial, Justice in Jerusalem, which will be published in Israel this March. Hausner, who is now chairman of the Yad Vashem memorial to Holocaust victims in Jerusalem, feels the entire manuscript should not be published on the grounds that it is rambling, repetitive and stuffed with what he calls the typical Nazi "jargon of violence." Besides, adds Israel's former Attorney General, "I felt that Eichmann had ample opportunity to make his defense during the trial...
...against you. I appeal to you to set your hostage free." To no avail. Twenty-four hours later, the Liberation, which had been used by Schleyer's kidnapers to convey previous messages, received a telephone call from a terrorist. He identified himself as a member of the Commando Siegfried Hausner of the Red Army Faction?the group taking credit for the abduction. "After 43 days," he said, "we have put an end to the miserable and corrupt existence of Hanns-Martin Schleyer. His death does not measure up to our grief and anger after the slaughter at Mogadishu and Stammheim...
After Flight 181 was skyjacked, Schleyer's captors-who call themselves the Commando Siegfried Hausner unit of the Red Army Faction-sent one ultimatum to the West German government and a second to the Paris mass-circulation daily France-Soir. In the messages, the group boasted of its ties to the skyjackers and set out its demands. Among them: the release from West German prisons of eleven convicted urban guerrillas (including Andreas Baader, co-founder of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang); the freeing of two Palestinian guerrillas from Turkish jails; the transporting of the prisoners to Viet Nam, Somalia...
...after the abduction, the kidnapers made six demands in a letter that was anonymously left at a police station. It was signed Kommando Siegfried Hausner, R.A.F.-referring to a terrorist who lied after a 1975 attack on the West German embassy in Stockholm. The initials stand for the now familiar Red Army Faction, which had killed both Buback and Ponto. The kidnapers' message warned that Schleyer would be killed unless eleven terrorists were released from German prisons, each given 100,000 deutsche marks (about $43,000), and flown out of the country. Among the eleven: Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl...