In April 1961, an Israeli court in Jerusalem assembled to
determine the responsibility of Adolf Eichmann, a former senior Nazi official,
for the transportation of European Jews to concentration camps and death camps
in the Third Reich, among other crimes. That the prosecution, 16 years after
the liberation of Auschwitz, of a single if prominent Nazi official rivaled the
Allies’ expansive postwar tribunal in its moral drama was as much a testament
to the conduct of the trial as to the identity of the plaintiff. Israeli
prosecutors presented their case as a reckoning not just with Eichmann’s
crimes, but with the total legacy of the Holocaust as well. …read more
Source: The New Republic
