Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long-winded, Eichmann had irritated his defense lawyer, Robert Servatius and three judges of the Israeli court. Loquaciously he had told (though nobody asked him) how his functions had grown to include confiscation of Jewish property and deciding which Jews were hostile to Germany. Affidavits from six former Nazi associates hurt him the most. They pictured Eichmann not as a humble cog but as a fanatic anti-Semite who made decisions. One called Eichmann "death's great expediter...
Meticulously taking notes with a black ballpoint pen, underlining in red important document fragments, Adolf Eichmann but for his glass cage might have been a minor court bureaucrat during the first eight weeks of his trial. As witness after witness rose to recount the Nazi crimes against the Jews, the green-backed files and notebooks in the cage grew higher and higher. At night in his cell, Eichmann pored over his files until his eyes watered with weariness. Last week, when he took the stand for the first time in his own defense, Eichmann was ready to the point...
Eichmann's point quickly became evident, and he repeated it so often in such bureaucratese that some of the spectators literally fell asleep: he had been "only a small cog" with no real authority in the Nazi machine. "I could not anticipate. I could not influence. My status was too modest," he said. "I was only dealing with train timetables and technical aspects of evacuation transports." In this small role, rationalized Eichmann, he actually helped the Jews: "It cannot be denied that this orderliness was to some extent to the benefit of the people who were deported...
Globke served in the Interior Ministry during the Nazi regime, had indeed helped rewrite the laws to deprive Jews of citizenship. But he never joined the Nazi Party. Berlin's Cardinal von Preysing testified after the war that Globke had in fact been placed in his job by the German Catholic hierarchy as a kind of spy and agent for the resistance movement. Globke's defenders have always claimed that he rewrote the laws as loosely as possible to aid the Jews, and Adenauer promptly blasted Eichmann's charges last week as inaccurate...
...week's end Eichmann's verbal prancing was wearing a little thin. After an Eichmann foray into the minutiae of the Nazi bureaucracy's workings, Judge Landau snapped: "You were not requested to give lectures. Asked a specific question, give a specific reply...