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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...
...testimony tumbling out of the witnesses' bitter personal memories last week, the name of Adolf Eichmann was hardly mentioned. Time and again Presiding Judge Moshe Landau warned Prosecutor Hausner of irrelevance. At week's end, his patience clearly exhausted, Judge Landau bluntly told Hausner to get to the point...
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 only listened, sometimes locking and interlocking his long fingers, or tilting his head in an odd, three-quarter inclination of strict attention. Occasionally, a muscle twitched in his thin neck. Once, Hausner said sarcastically that "if the swastika flag were again to be raised with shouts of 'Sieg heil I', if there were again to resound the hysterical screams of the Führer, if again the high-tension barbed wires of the extermination centers were set up-Adolf Eichmann would rise, salute and go back to his work of oppression and butchery." Eichmann drew together...
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...