Evening star., 1961-04-27
Eichmonn rial Hears hree
Describe Treatment by SS
BY RELMAN MORN
Associated Press STAFF Writer

JERUSALEM, April 81. -
Adolf Eichmann's promised
land for the Jews" a witness
testified today, wa sa wind
swept knoll IN Poland, teeming
with cholera and typhus, where
the temperature in winter fell
to 40 degrees below zero.
A sound like a deep sigh
swept the audience in the
courtroom.
'Eichmann. on trial on charges
OF mass murder Of Jews during
World War II, impassively
opened a file in the prisoners
dock, flipped the pages, and
made a note on one of them.
Three prosecution witnesses
two men and woman-pile6
detail on detail CT their eX-
perienceS at the nandS of the
former SIS officer.
Virtually every seat in the
courtroom was filled.
In other developments today:
, /. Attorney General Gideon
Hausner said Israel cannot give
a blanket guarantee of safe
conduct for potential witnesses
to come from Austria and Ger
many to testify. He said each
case would be considered sep
arately. If witnesses do not
wish to come to Jerusalem, he
added, the prosecution would
agree to have evidence taken
by affidavit or given before a
judge.
2. The prosecution introduced
a photostatic copy of a report
from Joseph P. Kennedy, father
of President Kennedy, when he
was United States Ambassador
to England. 1t relayed infor-
nation. received from French
officials, about the situation of !
the Jews in Germany in 1888. |!
Mr.. Kennedy described it as
''very bad"
8. The prosecution intro
duced more than so documents
and other pieces of written tes-
timony.
The court trying Eichmann
received a photostatic copy of
a report Mr.. Kennedy cabled
to the State Department on
December 8. 1888. Assistant At
torney General Ya'akov Bar'or
told the Judges it was obtained
from the national archives in
Alexandria, Va.
Mr.. Kennedy relayed a re-
port, received from the French /
foreign office, of conversation
between Nazi Foreign Minister
Joachim Won Ribbentrop and
French Ambassador Henri Bon
net.
Results Termed Bad
The results were very bad"
Mr.. Kennedy cabled Washing
ton.
Mr.. Kennedy's message also
referred to financial arrange
ments" and "our plans with
the British"
Mr.. Bar'or said Mr.. Ken
nedy's cable was about "the
refugees from Germany, ways
of helping them and easing
their situation"
Mr.. Kennedy's message said
in part:
"Ribbentrop, when pressed.
told Bonnet that the Jews in
Germany, without exception,
were pickpocketS, murderers
and thieves. The property they
possessed had been acquired
illegally. The German govern
ment therefore decided to as
simulate them with criminal
elements. They would be forced
to report to police as other
criminals we're obliged to do.
They would be under police
observation like other Grim
inals.
The German government
could not help it if some of
the criminals escaped to other
countries which seemed so
anxious to have them. 1t was
not, however, willing for them
to take their property, which
had resulted from illegal op-
erations, with them. There
was, in fact. nothing that it
could or would do"
Many Reports Offered
The Kennedy report was one
Of several dozen entered in the
record today by Mr.. Bar'or.
) He produced documents,
photostatS, quotations from
speeches and copies of letters.
They all served to fill in the
picture of the situation of Jews
in Germany on the eve of
World War II, and the meas
ures taken by Nazis to. force
them to leave Germany penni-
less.
Many of the documents,
Bar'or told the court, were mi
crofilmed from originals Of the
Nazi papers now kept in the
archives at Alexandria. /
Eichmann himself came to