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ADOLF EICHMANN

ADOLF EICHMANN. Kylie McLaughlin Sarah Tracey. Before. Lived in Argentina Ricardo Klement May 1960 the Israeli Security service seized him and took him to Jerusalem to be tried in the Israeli court. Charges.

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ADOLF EICHMANN

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  1. ADOLF EICHMANN Kylie McLaughlin Sarah Tracey

  2. Before • Lived in Argentina • Ricardo Klement • May 1960 the Israeli Security service seized him and took him to Jerusalem to be tried in the Israeli court

  3. Charges • charged with 15 counts of crimes against the Jewish people, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and membership in a hostile organization • enslavement, starvation, persecution, transportation and murder of millions of Jews as well as the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Poles and Gypsies • membership in criminal organizations--the Storm Troopers (SA), Security Service (SD), and Gestapo (all of which had been declared criminal organizations at the 1946 Nuremberg Trial)

  4. Evidence • 112 witnesses (especially ghetto fighters such as Zivia Lubetkinand Former Jewish partisan leader Abba Kovner) • 1,600 documents recording the implementation of the Final Solution • His defense: he was just following orders and that he just played a small role in the killing process

  5. Eichmann’s Orders • January 1942- Eichmann coordinated deportations of Jews from Germany and elsewhere in western, southern, and northern Europe to killing centers • Working with other German agencies, he determined how the property of deported Jews would be seized and made certain that his office would benefit from the confiscated assets • He also arranged for the deportation of tens of thousands of Roma (Gypsies)

  6. Outcomes • Three judges • Prosecutor Gideon Hausner • June 1, 1962, Eichmann was executed by hanging • execution of Adolf Eichmann remains the only time that Israel has enacted a death sentence

  7. Justice? • At the conclusion of the Eichmann Trial, justice was achieved. Not only was Eichmann found guilty of all the 15 counts he was charged with, including crimes against the Jewish people, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and membership in a hostile organization, but also he was sentenced to death. Eichmann was executed by hanging, then his body was cremated and his remains were dumped out at sea. By making a spectacle of his execution, it disgraced and brought shame to his name. Throwing his ashes out to sea denied him a proper burial, similarly to the millions of people he murdered, where he could be memorialized.

  8. Bibliography • http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005179 • http://history1900s.about.com/od/1960s/qt/Eichmann-Trial.htm

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