And then Eichmann was quoted as saying, in non-English, that Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews was nonsense ''.

And if it was not an individual who was in the dock, why was the Trial, as we shall observe later, all but scuttled in the attempt to prove Eichmann a `` fiend ''??

It might be contended, of course, that Eichmann in stubbornly denying anti-Semitic feelings was lying or insisting on a private definition of anti-Semitism.

Shout at Eichmann though he might, the Prosecutor could not establish that the defendant was falsifying the way he felt about Jews or that what he did feel fell into the generally recognized category of anti-Semitism.

In regard to Eichmann, it was to be found in the Nazi outlook, which contained a principle separate from and far worse than anti-Semitism, a principle by which the poison of anti-Semitism itself was made more virulent.

Not through fear of disobeying orders, as Eichmann kept trying to explain, but through a peculiar giddiness that began in a half-acceptance of the vicious absurdities contained in the Nazi interpretation of history and grew with each of Hitler's victories into a permanent light-mindedness and sense of magical rightness that was able to respond to any proposal, and the more outrageous the better, `` Well, let's try it ''.

The only execution in Israeli history occurred in 1961, when Adolf Eichmann, one of the principal organizers of the Holocaust, was put to death after his trial in Jerusalem.

" The distinction was evident during the Nuremberg trials, when Dieter Wisliceny ( a deputy to Adolf Eichmann ) was asked to name the extermination camps, and he identified Auschwitz and Majdanek as such.

Adolf Eichmann and Heinrich Himmler knew Gemma was Fiorello's sister and ordered her held as a political prisoner.

Adolf Eichmann was Müller's direct subordinate and head of Department IV, Section B4, which dealt with Jews.

Heydrich's right-hand man Eichmann was to take the minutes.

Eichmann was later convicted and executed.

He was still alive in late 1943 or early 1944, when he was interrogated by Adolf Eichmann at Gestapo headquarters in Berlin.

After he was arrested, Irving claimed in his plea that he changed his opinions on the Holocaust, " I said that then based on my knowledge at the time, but by 1991 when I came across the Eichmann papers, I wasn't saying that anymore and I wouldn't say that now.

In 1960, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was captured and flown from Argentina to Israel on an El Al aircraft.

He was nominated for an Emmy again in 1997 for portraying Adolf Eichmann in The Man Who Captured Eichmann.

In his trial in Jerusalem Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann claimed he was simply following legal orders under paragraph 48 of the German Military Code which provided: " punishability of an action or omission is not excused on the ground that the person considered his behaviour required by his conscience or the prescripts of his religion ".

This testimony was denied by Eichmann at his 1961 trial in Jerusalem.

Amongst the more notorious holders of the rank of Obersturmbannführer were Rudolf Höss, Adolf Eichmann, Herbert Kappler and Joachim Peiper.

In Eichmann in Jerusalem, however, Hannah Arendt disputes the notion that Obersturmbannführer was a rank of significance, pointing out that Eichmann spent the war " dreaming " about promotion to Standartenführer.

Arendt also points out that "... people like Eichmann, who had risen from the ranks, were never permitted to advance beyond a lieutenant colonel the rank of Obersturmbannführer except at the front.

Nevertheless Reinhard still left a paper trail, an intercepted telegram sent by Hermann Höfle on 11 January 1943, to Adolf Eichmann in Berlin, listed 1, 274, 166 total arrivals to the four camps up until the end of 1942.

Since then Duvall has continued to act in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies ( 1983 ) ( for which he won an Academy Award ), The Natural ( 1984 ), Colors ( 1988 ), the television mini-series Lonesome Dove ( 1989 ), Stalin ( 1992 ), The Man Who Captured Eichmann ( 1996 ), A Family Thing ( 1996 ), The Apostle ( 1997 ) ( which he also wrote and directed ), A Civil Action ( 1998 ), Gods and Generals ( 2003 ), Broken Trail ( 2006 ) and Get Low ( 2010 ).

" Hannah Arendt in her study of the " trial " of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, notes that the accused, as with almost all his fellow Germans, had lost track of his conscience to the point where they hardly remembered it ; this wasn't caused by familiarity with atrocities or by psychologically redirecting any resultant natural pity to themselves for having to bear such an unpleasant duty, so much as by the fact that anyone whose conscience did develop doubts could see no one who shared them: " Eichmann did not need to close his ears to the voice of conscience ... not because he had none, but because his conscience spoke with a " respectable voice ", with the voice of the respectable society around him ".

Recent biographies of Adolf Eichmann, who also escaped to South America, and Heinrich Himmler, the alleged founder of the ODESSA, made no reference to such an organization.

Some of its shows, such as Father of the Angels, Love Letters to Adolf Hitler, Diary of Adolf Eichmann, The Suicide Bomber, Love in Great Neck, The Last Virgin, Last Jew in Europe and others, have been written about in much of the Western press ( link ) and are also studied in universities.

This was the fate of Nazi war criminals such as Hermann Göring, Fritz Sauckel, Julius Streicher and Adolf Eichmann.

In January 1942 he attended the Wannsee Conference at which Heydrich briefed senior officials from a number of government departments of the plan, and at which Eichmann took the minutes.

The logistical details were established in the Wannsee Conference ( January 1942 ) and were executed by the administrator Adolf Eichmann.

This event, presided over by Reinhard Heydrich and conducted by Adolf Eichmann, has since become known as the Wannsee Conference.

As the film opens, various officials from different German agencies arrive and mingle at a lakeside villa in Wannsee, where SS-Obersturmbannführer ( Lieutenant Colonel ) Adolf Eichmann, SS Officer for Jewish Affairs, has meticulously planned the meeting.

The experiments began in July 1961, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.

* The interrogation of Adolf Eichmann began.

Over a period of time, some of Hitler's elite Nazi entourage, including Adolf Eichmann, began to deeply regret Germany's participation in the Ha ' avara Agreement.

In late spring 1944, the Hungarian government, assisted by Nazi forces led by Adolf Eichmann, began deporting Jews en-masse.

When the Attorney General began dealing with the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Barak, being a holocaust survivor, preferred not to be involved in the work.

* Authority after Adolph Eichmann and the Endlösung / Final Solution by Stephen Hand, TCRNews. com

Höss was commandant of the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, whilst Eichmann is generally regarded as a key architect of the Nazi's Endlösung ( Final Solution ) policy in which Auschwitz played so major a role.

As the messages from Himmler, Heydrich, and Eichmann came in through Alfred Funk, Lublin's fountainhead spouted.

The Eichmann case looked to the past, not to the future.

Perhaps under the guidance of this Nazi principle one could, as Eichmann declared, feel personally friendly toward the Jews and still be their murderer.

Eichmann himself is a model of how the myth of the enemy-Jew can be used to transform the ordinary man of present-day society into a menace to all his neighbors.

As the first collective confrontation of the Nazi outrage, the Trial of Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the shock of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen years and which is still by no means complete ( though let no one believe that it could be hastened by silence ).

* 1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

* 1961 – In Jerusalem, Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.

* 1961 – The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with verdicts of guilty on 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.

" he replied, " They were normal concentration camps, from the point of view of the department of Eichmann.

* 1960 – In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.

** Adolf Eichmann, German war criminal ( d. 1962 )

* April 11 – The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

** Adolf Eichmann is pronounced guilty of crimes against humanity by a panel of 3 Israeli judges.