On April 11, 1961, Adolf Eichmann stepped into a glass defendant's box and stood trial

in Jerusalem.

The trial was broadcast on television with simultaneous translation from Hebrew and

German into multiple languages, including English.

The proceedings commenced.

Prziding Judge Moshe Landau began reading the 15 counts in the indictment against Eichmann.

Their cues together with others during the period 1939 to 1945 caused the killing of millions

of Jews in his capacity as the person responsible for the execution of the Nazi plan for the

physical extermination of the Jews known as the final solution of the Jewish problem.

Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi.

He was the architect of the Holocaust.

During the indictment, Judge Landau named the locations of the Nazis greatest horrors,

the camps that carried out Eichmann's orders.

Our Schritts, millions of Jews were exterminated in this camp from 1941 until the end of January

1945 in gas chambers and in Kermitoria and by shooting and hanging.

The accused directed the commanders of that camp to use gas known as Cyclone B and in 1942

in 1944, they accused also secure their supply of a quantity of gas for the extermination

of the Jews.

The Adolf Eichmann who stood in the box seemed a passive, even pathetic figure, thick

tortoise shell glasses, balding his body like his hair, receding into a dark boxy oversized

suit.

Even the chief investigating officer at the trial, a Holocaust survivor himself said that

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