Evening star., 1961-07-19
Court Hears
NeWProtest
By yEichTl1ann

JERUSALEM. July 10 (AP)
- Adolf Eichmann today &C.
cused the Israeli prosecution Of
trying to ''fry" him until he
gives the answers the prosecu-
ton wants.
The former Gestapo Officer
charged with major completely
in the mass slaughter Of the
Jews threatened to stop reply
ing to questions about his 1851
interview with q Dutch Jour-
nalist. Presiding Judge Moshe
Landau roundly rebuked him.
Attorney General Gideon
Hausner tried repeatedly to
draw from Eichm a nm ar
acknowledgment that the inter
views he gave in Argentina to
Wilhelm Sassen were accurate
In the interviews, once in
tended as the basis for a book
on the Jewish holocaust, Eich-
mann allegedly expressed regret
that the determination Of Eu-
rppe's Jews was not completed
Parties Queries
1.-The defendant parried ques.
ton after question from Mr.
Hhusner, admitted handwrit-
ten corrections in Sassen''
manuscript were his own, but
insisted they were not final anc
that he repudiated, the whole
thing. g
IT stopped correcting" Sai6
Eichmann, "and gave up the
entire project because there
were too many errors and il
was not worth it,"
when Mr.. Hausner refused
to accept this. Eichmanr
doomed:
IT will no longer answer tc
any questions about this docu-
l1ent because it is completely
falSe."
Judge Landau cut in quickly
'You will continue to an.
swer questions until I ten YOU
ttlat you are free to step down.
Eyes, sir, Mr.. President,
Eiehmann said. "But I have
the feeling I am being friet
here until the ruunp steak il
vel done, until they elicit from
me the answer they want"
Cites Subordinate Role
Earlier, the prosecutor blazec
away at Eichmann as the real
hey figure in the secret police
setup in Nazi Berlin, but got
back the steady reply that his
rank of lieutenant colonel wa:
allow rank, on the level q
taking orders, not giving them
Mr. HauSner sought to prove
that Eichmann was a guiding
figure in the establishment oi
the Einsatz Commands, the
filing squads which murdered
two million Jews in the East
Eichmann admitted his Of
flee received reports from the
Commandos, including figures
on the mass murders, but he
said that was q function Of his
department. based on i1sttuc-
tons from Gestapo Chief Helm.
rich Himmler.
Recalls Lecture
Mr.. Hausner tackled Eich-
mann on passages inthe Sassen
interviews dealing with a lee.
tire he once gave in Berlin tc
gathering of security police. the
Attorney General observed:
I'm this Sassen document you
said in conclusion Gin the lee.
tilre) that the 1,000-year-olc
sCourge of mankind (the Jew,
has left us for all time Die
you say that?"
Even, If I had said this,
would have been a complete
fool and a madman to hav,
these remarks recorded II
Buenos Aires" Eichmann re,
Piled. "All this was intendeC
to sell the book"
Repeatedly Eichman askeS
that Hausr1er produce the ori
ginal tape recordings Of the in
terViews instead of relying o.
transcripts which he contendet
were uncorrected, false or il
many cases deliberately exag
gerated. The court refused t,
admit most of the tapes week
ago, acknowledging that tn,
parts which had not been re-
viewed by Eichmann at that
time-l957-were not justifi
able evidence of what he reall!
said.