Judging Eichmann, Jerusalem 1961

On May 23, 1960, at 4 p.m., the Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion climbed to the rostrum of the Knesset, the parliament, for an announcement as brief as it was spectacular. Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi criminal, was captured a few days earlier in Argentina where he was hiding and is in Jerusalem to be tried. Thus begins one of the most significant events in the history of the young State of Israel, which immediately takes on a global dimension.

After Nuremberg, after the purges that marked the end of war in Europe for nearly a decade after 1945, the Eichmann trial which opened on April 11, 1961, marks a new episode in the judgment of Nazi crimes.

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