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...responsibility, there can be no guilt." Thus, finishing 70 hours of testimony, he closed up the last of the brown folders from which he had produced mountains of documents, blew his nose heartily and leaned back to receive the onslaught of cross-questioning from Attorney General Gideon Hausner...
This was before Hausner began his crossexamination. At the prosecution table, Hausner had been waiting impatiently to begin the attack, fidgeting and rubbing his bald pate red. Speaking stridently, questioning vindictively. Hausner opened with a quick barrage...
Reminding Eichmann of his oft-quoted statement in 1945 that "I will gladly leap into my grave knowing that 5,000,000 enemies of the Reich had been wiped out along with me," Hausner hammered at Eichmann to get him to admit that he had considered the Jews to be the enemy, and finally Eichmann surrendered saying, "Yes, the Jews were the enemy...
...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...
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...