EICHMANN TRIAL
Activities In Prague (N.Z .P.A .-Reuter—Copynoh t > (Rec. 11 p.m.) JERUSALEM, April 27. The Israeli Court trying Adolf Eichmann today met to turn the spotlight on the former S.S. lieutenant-col-onel’s activities in Czechoslovakia. The prosecution has alleged that Eichmann, who moved to Prague early in 1939 as head of a Nazi-run emigration office for Czechoslovak Jews, “treated and spoke with Jews in the best tradition of Nazi duplicity." Eichmann, accused of caus>ng the murder of millions of Jews, continued to take notes in his dock of bulletproof glass during today's hearing. A pile of files lay on each side of his microphone. Before calling witnesses of
events in Czechoslovakia, the prosecution submitted a series of documents and photostats giving details of Nazi S.S.. police and concentration camp organisation before and during World War 11. Yesterday. the prosecution submitted long death-cell statements by executed Nazis in which Eichmann’s part tn the “final solution" of the Jewish problem was outlined. But Eichmann’s defence counsel. Dr Robert Serva*ius objected to statements made by ex-Nazis still alive He claimed it was possible for these witnesses to give evidence and it was the prosecution's duty to bring them to Court for cross-ex-amination.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29499, 28 April 1961, Page 13
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