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Contents (detailed) |
=== Einstellungsprotokoll (- min/sek):
- 00'33 ARCHIV-VORSPANN
=== Sitzung 70.04:
=== [Vorangehende Verhandlung der Sitzung auf Band EICHMANN TRIAL // SESSION 070.03 / 070.05 / 071.01 - 08-JUN-1961 (VT EI313) [ET], 00'52''-11'20'']
- 00'52'' Adolf Eichmann (mit Anzug), Mann an Filmprojektor
- 01'48'' Dunkler Gerichtssaal (total), Zuschauer setzen sich
- 03'22'' Eichmann, Mann an Filmprojektor, Robert Servatius (Verteidiger), Gideon Hausner (Generalstaatsanwalt) setzt sich
- 04'17'' Servatius u. Hausner stehen auf
- 04'32'' Eichmann, Mann an Filmprojektor
- 05'44'' Hausner von hinten, Licht geht an
- 06'12'' Eichmann, Mann an Filmprojektor
- 06'19'' Hausner
- 07'15'' Servatius
- 07'20'' Hausner u. Servatius
- 08'01'' Eichmann, Mann an Filmprojektor
- 08'16'' Gerichtssaal, Hausner, Servatius, Moshe Landau (Vorstitzender Richter), Benjamin Halevi (Richter) u.Yitzhak Raveh (Richter)
- 09'37'' Servatius (nah)
- 09'44'' Gerichtssaal, Hausner, Servatius, Landau, Halevi u. Raveh
- 10'12'' Servatius, Eichmann u. Mann an Filmprojektor
- 10'35'' Landau, Halevi u. Raveh
- 10'41'' Servatius, Eichmann u. Mann an Filmprojektor
- 11'06'' Gerichtssaal, Hausner, Servatius, Landau, Halevi u. Raveh
- 12'18'' Servatius, Eichmann u. Mann an Filmprojektor
- 12'48'' Gerichtssaal, Hausner, Servatius, Landau, Halevi u. Raveh
- 13'52'' Zuschauer (sehr dunkel)
- 14'03'' Gerichtssaal (total)
- 14'25'' Servatius, Eichmann u. Mann an Filmprojektor
- 14'38'' Gerichtssaal, Hausner, Servatius, Landau, Halevi u. Raveh
- 15'26'' Hausner stehend
- 15'35'' Gerichtssaal, Hausner, Servatius, Landau, Halevi u. Raveh
- 16'09'' Zuschauer (sehr dunkel)
- 16'18'' Hausner stehend
- 16'28'' Gerichtssaal, Hausner, Servatius, Landau, Halevi u. Raveh
- 17'08'' Hausner stehend
- 17'28'' Gerichtssaal, Hausner, Servatius, Landau, Halevi u. Raveh
- 17'50'' Hausner stehend
- 18'40'' Gerichtssaal, Hausner, Servatius, Landau, Halevi u. Raveh
- 18'58'' Protokollant (nah)
- 19'10'' Gerichtssaal, Hausner, Servatius, Landau, Halevi u. Raveh, Raum wird dunkel
- 19'25'' Servatius, Eichmann u. Mann an Filmprojektor
- 19'34'' Filmende
=== [Fortgesetzte Verhandlung der Sitzung auf Band EICHMANN TRIAL // SESSION 070.03 / 070.05 / 071.01 - 08-JUN-1961 (VT EI313) [ET], 11'29''-45'40'']
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=== Tonprotokoll, Engl. άbersetzung (- min/sek):
=== Sitzung 70.04:
=== [Vorangehende Verhandlung der Sitzung auf Band EICHMANN TRIAL // SESSION 070.03 / 070.05 / 071.01 - 08-JUN-1961 (VT EI313) [ET], 00'52''-11'20'']
- 0505 Hausner: With the Court's permission, last night we screened the films which the Court will now see in the presence of representatives of the Prosecution, and in the presence of Dr. Servatius and nine identification witnesses. They are: Mrs. Salzberger, Mr. Hoch, Mr. Aviel, Mr. Melkman, Mr. Ben-Zvi, Mr. Bakon, Mrs. Kagan, Mr. Chen and Mr. Aharon Hoter-Yishai. As a result of the screening, Defence Counsel agreed that, indeed, each of the witnesses identified a portion of the pictures, and hence, in this way, the entire screening was authenticated. I understand that Defence Counsel does not insist that the oath be administered to these identifying witnesses, but they are present here, at the Court's disposal, should the Court desire further authentication from them or to put additional questions to them. There will be no evidence running with the screening. I shall announce before the screening of each section what is being shown. I have a record of proceedings here signed by Mr. Ya'akov Bar-Or, on the identification that took place yesterday. I am ready to submit it to the Court. Defence Counsel has received a copy of it
- 0650 Landau: Dr. Servatius, what do you have to observe on this?
- 0720 Servatius: I have no comments in regard to the witnesses. The Attorney General will explain what the contents are. These contents have been summarized for me, and I have no objection but I have some points which I ask the Court to note, and on which my reservations are based. Do I have permission to present them now?
- 0814 Landau: First of all, you do not have any objection to the submission of the record of proceedings? I am marking the record of proceedings with my initials, and the letter "A". You spoke about reservations what kind of reservations will you have at a later stage? I should like to understand the meaning of this word "reservation"
- 0925 Servatius: Your Honour, the Presiding Judge, I am referring to a possible reservation which I shall present, and the Court will understand it only if it is submitted in advance
- 1035 Servatius: No, the reservation will not be against the actual screening, but in respect of certain scenes and of the text Firstly, we see the actions of an operational group to that I have no objection. But, immediately thereafter, comes a scene of a pile of corpses, a burning pile. I have the feeling that this scene was prepared after the event, and, in this respect, the scene should have been examined. There is also a view there of a wooden wall marked with lines. What their significance is one cannot see, but it has been said here that these are the numbers of the victims who were killed by this unit. I would, therefore, request that the text be examined
- 1127 Landau: With regard to the first scene, are you arguing that the scene has been staged, that it is not a genuine one?
- 1150 Servatius: No, it is a genuine scene, but I have the feeling that it was filmed after the liberation, when they continued the process of burning bodies. Subsequently, there is a scene showing decapitated bodies, and the heads in a separate receptacle. I assume that both the scenes of the corpses and those of the heads are genuine. But I have the impression that it was put together for the purpose of reports that were made. Thereafter, we are shown some rectangular objects, and it is said that this was soap made from these bodies. I request that, in this instance, too, the text be examined. The last aspect to which I want to draw the Court's attention is the concluding scene depicting the disposal of the bodies. I believe that this is more like a photographic report. There, the bodies are collected and gathered together and brought by a bulldozer into a pit. My feeling is that whoever prepared the report aimed less at a factual description than at the impression made, and I ask that this, too, should be examined. I have no further remarks
- 1540 Hausner: As to the number to which Defence Counsel referred, I have no evidence as to the number, and I would ask the Court to disregard any figure of those who were put to death which may appear here. We shall not seek to prove any figure, or total of victims, by means of the figure which appears in the film. As far as the furnace is concerned, I do not know whether it was found in this condition, when there was still fire in it, or whether the fire was kindled in order to show how it looked when the fire was burning. I cannot give any explanation for it. At any rate, this furnace was identified
- 1631 Landau: Identified? Where was it?
- 1634 Hausner: In Auschwitz. Concerning the burying of the bodies, evidence will be brought on the subject, and we shall submit material which, in our opinion, will implicate the Accused in the matter of the skeletons in Strasbourg. We shall submit evidence proving the link between the Accused and that affair, and the pictures which were shown at Nuremberg on the same matter. The scenes that you will see here is needed only to substantiate the material evidence which you will receive tomorrow. If we do not succeed in submitting this material, I shall ask you to disregard these scenes. Incidentally, it is only a brief part of the film, and also not an important one. And now, with regard to the last film on Bergen-Belsen. The explanation is as follows: Attempts by the liberating forces to have the victims buried by the German population did not keep pace with the large numbers of bodies; in other words, it was impossible to bury the bodies at a sufficient rate. There were huge piles of bodies and, meanwhile, an epidemic of typhus spread. In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the occupying forces brought in bulldozers, which you will see, in order to level the area, and in the course of that, to my regret, graves were opened in this process, and bodies were dragged along. I am not saying that the Accused, or his subordinates, or in whose name he operated, committed this act. This film was taken after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. But this is what such a burial looked like. The only justification if, indeed, I am called upon to justify this lies in the fact that the epidemic of typhus was prevalent, and the bodies had to be buried hurriedly, in order to prevent the increasing decomposition and the spread of the epidemic. The first film will be the operation of the Einsatzgruppen, the execution of women and men. According to what we know, this was taken at the actual time
- 19'36'' End
=== [Fortgesetzte Verhandlung der Sitzung auf Band EICHMANN TRIAL // SESSION 070.03 / 070.05 / 071.01 - 08-JUN-1961 (VT EI313) [ET], 11'29''-45'40'']
=== Erfassung lt.: N.N.: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann. Record of Proceedings in the District Court of Jerusalem, Vol. 3, Jerusalem: State of Israel, Ministry of Justice / Israel State Archive / Yad Vashem, 1993, redigiert |