Eichmann Trial Done - Former Nazi Expects Death
Aug. 14, 1961 - The trial of Adolf Eichmann, which began April 11 and involved some of the most sickening testimony every heard in a...
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Aug 10, 2021
Israeli Prosecutor Asks for "True and Righteous" Verdict: Death for Eichmann
Aug. 10, 1961 - Attorney General Gideon Hausner demanded today the conviction of Adolf Eichmann as a merciless and insatiable murderer of...
Aug 9, 2021
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy Won't Give American Nazis "Free Publicity"
Aug. 9, 1961 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy has informed Republican Senator Kenneth B. Keating of New York that he opposes branding...
Aug 8, 2021
Israeli Prosecutor Calls Eichmann Unrepentant "Henchman of Hitler"
Aug. 8, 1961 - Israel's Attorney General, Gideon Hausner, began today a wrathful summation of Israel's case against Adolf Eichmann...
Aug 7, 2021
Summations in Eichmann Trial Tomorrow, Former Nazi Likely to Face Death Penalty
Aug. 7, 1961 - Summations in the trial of Adolf Eichmann will begin tomorrow in Jerusalem. Attorney General Gideon Hausner will demand...
Jul 24, 2021
Eichmann Completes Testimony, Verdict Likely in November
July 24, 1961 - Adolf Eichmann completed his testimony today before an Israeli tribunal trying him on charges of having directed the...
Jul 20, 2021
Nazis Get Hard Labor for Assault on Jewish Boy in Virginia
July 20, 1961 - Two members of the American Nazi party - Richard Braun, 26, and Robert Garber, 31 - were sentenced today to 12 months at...
Jul 18, 2021
Shocking Details on Himmler's Jewish Skull Collection Emerge at Eichmann Trial
July 18, 1961 - Adolf Eichmann admitted at his trial today that the supplying of 150 skeletons of Jews for the skull collection of...
Jul 10, 2021
Nazi Collaborator 'Axis Sally' Released from Federal Prison
July 10, 1961 - Mildred Gillars (pictured in 1949) was released from the Federal Reformatory for Women in Alderson, W. Va., today. The...
Jul 10, 2021
Israeli Prosecutor Ridicules Adolf Eichmann
July 10, 1961 - At the trial of Adolf Eichmann today, prosecutor Gideon Hausner employed heavy sarcasm, addressing the former Nazi...
Jul 7, 2021
Eichmann Cross-Examined in Jerusalem
July 7, 1961 - Adolf Eichmann, wilting under the first blast of cross-examination, admitted moral guilt today as an accomplice in the ...
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