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with others, during the period
of 1889 to 1945 placed many
millions of Jews in living con-
ditions calculated to bring
about their physical destruc-
ton.
Crime Against Humanity
3. Crime against, the Jewish
people: The accused, together
with others, caused serious
physical and mental harm to
millions of Jews.
4. Crime against the Jewish
people; The accused, together
with others, devised measures
for the sterilization of Jews.
5. Crime against humanity:
The accused. together with
others. caused the murder, en-
slavement and deportation of
the Jewish population in coun-
tries and areas occupied by the
Axis.
6. Crime against humanity:
! The accused together with
others. prosecuted Jews on ma
tional, racial, religious and po-
litical grounds.
7. Crime against humanity:
The accused, together with
others. caused the spoilation of
property OF Jews in Nazi oc-
cupied countries.
| 8. War crime: The accused,
together with others, caused the
ill treatment, deportation and
murder Of Jews in states occu-
pied by Germany,
8. Crime against humanity:
The accused, together with
others, caused the deportation
of more than a half million
Polish civilians.
10. Crime against humanity:
The accused, together with
others, caused the deportation
of tens Of thousands of Gypsies
for the purpose of numbering
them.
Lidice Case Mentioned
IL. Crime against humanity:
The accused. together with
others, caused the deportation
of $4,000 Slovene civilians un-
der inhuman conditions.
II. Crime against humanity:
The accused. together with
others, caused the deportation
of 100 children from the village
of Lidice in Czechoslovakia to
Poland to be murdered.
13. Membership in a hostile
organization-the IS, declared
a criminal organization by the
international military tribunal
at Nuremberg October /, 1916.
IA. Membership in a hostile
organization-the SD (security
police). declared a criminal Or
ganization by the Nuremberg
international tribunal.
Is. Membership in a hostile
organization - the Gestapo
! also declared a criminal Or
ganization by the Nuremberg
court.
Eichmann Makes Notes
Judge Landau, Judge Ben
yamin Halevy and Judge Ravet
fairly raced through the read
ing of the judgment but Eich-
mann hung on every word
reaching him through ear.
phones in German, and severa
times wrote out notes pre-.
-sumably to give to his counse
later.
Wearing a blue suit, white
shirt and striped tie, he looked
) rested and relaxed. 1t was the
same suit and tie his Israel
, captors supplied him for hi
trial.
The early part of the judg.
ment amounted to an exhaus'
, tive review Of other cases, in
Guiding the Nuremberg trials
in which the world took a posi-.
tive stand against "crime!
r against humanity"
The court ridiculed the ides
that Eichmann could plead
Y superior orders" and that onl.
S the Nazi regime was the crimi
Y nal for trying to eradicate tn,
t Jews.
Such crimes are committed
1 by people," Judge Halevy read
4 "The laws of humanity ar,
e binding on individuals. Tn
t guilt Of Germany as a stat
r does not detract one iota from
= the personal responsibility o
n the accused"
The tribunal also declare,
h that crimes against the Jewisl
r people could be construed as
d crime against Israel if a con
: nection between Israel and tn
Jewish people was established
h The judgement noted that Is
r rael had been recognized a