National Content: Italy
Started in Palestine the trial against Adolf Eichmann
| Source | “La Settimana Incom 02046”, 09/04/1961 |
| Event referred to | April 10th, 1961-May 31st, 1962: Eichmann’s trial |
| Technological characteristics | Type of file: video Extension: .mpeg Availability proposed: possibility to view after a free registration |
| Description of the source | Kind of source: newsreel Origin of the source: Website of Istituto Luce Language: Italian Copyright issues: consultable on line but not printable, not downloadable (download available on request) To view the video click on the source icon, in the page that opens up just type the code 02046 in the green right column, first white line, then click on the "Invia Ricerca" black button. Then click on the moviefilm like icon of the first record of the list. When asked for use login: projectmhm and password: projectmhm and then click on the "Invia dati" black button. Choose your connection and wait for the video to start. |
| Contextualisation of the source | The video is a part of the newsreel “La settimana Incom, 02046”, edited in Italy on March 9th,1961. The “Settimana Incom” is a vision news filmed, which was projected in the cinematographic room during the interval between a projection and the other. Born in years which preceded the birth of television, the newsreel is disappeared a few years later. The “Archivio Storico” of Istituto Luce is the only archives in the world which put on free to the service of all the world his estate of filmed through internet. |
| Interpretation of the source | The video avoids to treat questions more delicate that emerged in that period also on the occasion of the Nuremberg’s trial, such as, for example, the legitimacy of the trial or the relation between individual and collective responsibility. The video dwells, instead, on the Eichmann’s personality, on his psychological and physical aspects. Eichmann is described with more harsh terms and serious responsibility are him imputed: «Adolf Eichmann was the man who applied coldly, pitiless the Nazi extermination policy against all European Jews». |
| Original Contents | Apparentemente un bimbo come un altro, come tanti, è uno studente di normale intelligenza come tanti. Eichmann entrava nel partito nazista sposandosi poi altrettanto normalmente. Cominciò ad occuparsi del problema ebraico nel ’35 visitando la Palestina. Le persecuzioni raziali subito durissime, imposero la discriminazione, la stella di Davide è agli ebrei. Sorsero i primi campi di concentramento, i primi arresti in massa. Dopo l’occupazione dell’Austria e lo scoppio della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, Hitler decise la soluzione integrale del problema ebraico: una condanna a morte di massa, un genocidio, si moltiplicarono i campi di sterminio, le deportazioni su scala vastissima. Adolf Eichmann fu l’uomo che applicò con freddezza, senza pietà, la politica di sterminio nazista nei confronti degli ebrei di tutta Europa. A milioni finirono nei forni crematori, dopo la camera a gas le infami docce letali, le esecuzioni in massa. Con la cattura di Eichmann in Argentina da parte di Commandos Israeliani, si è aperto il più tragico processo della storia dell’umanità. Il suo difensore sarà l’avvocato Robert Servatius, ma la condanna è già stata emessa dal mondo civile. |
| Original Contents (English Translation) | He was seemingly an ordinary sort of child, an ordinary sort of student of average intelligence. Eichmann joined the Nazi party embracing its ideals and he got married. He began to occupy himself with the Jewish issue while visiting Palestine. The racial persecutions, very tough from the start imposed David's star on the Jews, and practiced discrimination. The first concentration camps sprung up, the first mass arrests were implemented. After the Austrian occupation and the outbreak of World War two, Hitler decided on the final solution concerning the Jewish issue: a lot of people were sentenced to death, it was a genocide, the extermination camps multiply as well as deportation on a very large scale. Adolf Eichmann was the man who applied coldly, pitiless the Nazi extermination policy against all European Jews. Millions of them ended up into the crematoriums after the gas chambers, (the wicked lethal showers). After Eichmann's capture in Argentina by the Israeli commandos, the most tragic trial of the history of mankind began. Attorney Robert Servatius defended his case but the civilized world had already condemned him. |