National Content: Italy
Eichmann behind bars: the Nazi Adolf Eichmann in front of the Israel court
| Source | “La Settimana Incom 02065”, 21/04/1961 |
| 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 To view the video click on the source icon, in the page that opens up just type the code 02065 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 second 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. |
| 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) |
| Contextualisation of the source | The video is a part of the newsreel “La settimana Incom, 02046” , edited in Italy the 21st April 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 trial is at the beginning, but the judgement about the “criminal” Adolf Eichmann appears to be already clear, and that is underlined also by the fact that the accused is standing in the bullet-proof glass cage. The video doesn’t dwell to describe Eichmann’s personality, neither about his psychological nor physical aspects; rather it reports which was the trial organisation, quoting the judges that take part, and approximately the development of itself. |
| Original Contents | Per Adolf Eichmann suona la campana. Il criminale nazista deve rispondere dello sterminio di milioni di Ebrei davanti alla corte d’Israele. Preceduta da Moshe Landau, che ha accanto a sé i giudici Benjamin Halevy e Y. Raveh, la corte si pronuncerà sui delitti commessi da Eichmann durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. In piedi nella gabbia di vetro a prova di proiettili, Eichmann ascolta il pesante atto di accusa letto dal presidente Moshe Landau. I nomi dei campi di sterminio nazisti, i tragici nomi di Dachau, di Auschwitz, di Mauthausen risuonano più volte nell’aula e più volte risuonano i nomi dei capi nazisti: Hitler, l’implacabile Himmler, il capo della Gestapo Heyndrich. Il difensore dell’imputato, l’avvocato tedesco Robert Servatius, ha sollevato numerose eccezioni e ha tentato di sottrarre Eichmann al giudizio della corte di Israele prospettando eleganti questioni di procedura. I giudici lo hanno ascoltato attentamente ma il procuratore generale Gideon Hausner ha invitato la corte a rigettare le istanze della difesa. E quando ha esposto i fatti di cui Eichmann dovrà rispondere è stato implacabile contro l’imputato. |
| Original Contents (English Translation) | The score is settled for Adolf Eichmann. The Nazi criminal is responsible for the extermination of millions of Jews before an Israeli court. The court, presided over by Moshe Landau with the judges Benjamin Halevy and Y. Raveh will pronounce itself on the crimes committed by E. during the Second World War. Eichmann, standing in the bullet-proof glass cage listens to the grave indictment read by the President Moshe Landau. The names of the Nazi extermination camps, the tragical names of Dachau, Auschwitz, Mauthausen more than once resound in the courtroom as well as the names of the Nazi leaders: Hitler, the implacable Himmler, the Gestapo chief Heyndrich. The defending counsel, the German lawyer Robert Servatius, has raised numerous objections and has tried to rescue Eichmann from the trial of the Israeli court, by alleging elegant procedure matters. The judges listened to him carefully but the general attorney Gideon Hausner invited the court to reject the instances of the Defence. When he has set out the facts Eichmann will have to answer for, he was implacable against the accused. |