The Eichmann trial
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In April 1961, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi official in charge of concentration camps, was put on trial in Israel.The trial helped reveal the full details of the holocaust in which millions of European jews were killed during World War Two. One of the prosecutors, Gabriel Bach, spoke to Lucy Williamson for Witness History.
This programme is a rebroadcast.
PHOTO: Eichmann in the dock. (AFP/Getty Images)
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| 0:33.0 | So many millions of dollars. |
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| 0:35.0 | How in the world did this happen? |
| 0:37.0 | The Lazarus heist, the trial began in Israel. In April 1961, |
| 0:53.0 | 1961, the trial began in Israel of Adolf Eichmann, |
| 0:57.0 | the Nazi official in charge of the concentration camps |
| 1:00.0 | where millions of European Jews were killed during World War II. |
| 1:05.0 | Back in 2010, Lucy Williamson interviewed Gabriel Bach, one of the prosecutors at the trial. It's April 1961. |
| 1:17.0 | And inside Jerusalem's district court, |
| 1:21.0 | the most important trial in Israel's history is about to begin. |
| 1:27.0 | In the dock, surrounded by bulletproof glass was Adolf Eichmann. The man who 20 years earlier had run the Nazi concentration |
| 1:36.1 | camps in Europe. |
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