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redQllg QlQ Cne Judges say a
good word for Eichmann and
there was no evidence of miti-
cation in the entire 100000
word judgment.
These counts charged Eich-
mann with joining the Nazi
conspiracy to exterminate the
Jews as a race. killing non-Jews
as part of the forced labor
program in Poland, contribut-
ing his help to the murder OF
gypsies in the Hitler racial
plan, helping to round up the
children Of Lidice in revenge
for the assassination of Gestapo
Chief Reinhard Heydrich, plum
dering Jewish property. and de-
liberately joining the Nazi IS,
security police and Gestapo for
full support of all such activi-
ties.
The defendant himself sat
as though locked in the frozen
pose of a statue. He heard over
two days one Judge after an
other reject his defense that he
was an unimportant cog in a
big wheel and replace it with
his blanket conviction as a
giant in a giant conspiracy.
Knew Of Plan from First
The court held Eichmann was
one of the first Nazi officers to
learn of the plan to extermi-
nate all Jews in Europe and
called him a principal offender
in the pogrom.
The judgment determined
that the 55-year-old Eichmann
knew Of Hitler's plan to
slaughter the Jews as early as
June l941.
There was a team OF
people" the court said. He was
an accomplice. His RESPONSE
bility is that of a principal Of
fender who perpetrated the
crime. All who participated are
equally guilty. The accused was
privy to the determination
secret from June 1941 onward"
The court said Eichmann
helped to organize the exter-
mination plan, was associated
with the first murder squads
and later with the supply line
that shipped a special gas to
the death camps.
The court said Eichmann was
a worse criminal that the un-
derlings who actually operated
the gas chambers.
Judge Benjamin Halevy, con-
tinuing the reading of the 800
page judgment for the second
day. declared:
He who delivers a soul for
determination bears legal and
moral responsibility eve n
greater than he who does him
to death"
Rounded Up Millions
This harsh indictment was
written into a section Of the
opinion which explored how
Eichmann rounded up millions
of Jews and meticulously con-
Quoted the complex task of
transporting them to the death
mills.
Judge Halevy, Justice Lam
dau and Judge Izhak Raveh
completed the reading Of the
Judgment late today. Yesterday
TREY found Eichmann guilty of
crimes against the Jews, crimes
against humanity, war crimes,
and membership in hostile Or
ganizations.
On the first three counts he
can be sentenced to hang. The
fourth is punishable by a pris-
on sentence. The sentence will
be handed down later this week
or next Monday at the latest
Key Operating Officer
The special tribunal today
assessed documents and evil
dence of witnesses it said
proved:
/. Eichmann's main task was
to feed the determination
camps, as the Gestapo's princi-
pal operating officer "for Jew
ish affairs" and "the final solu-
ton of the Jewish problem.
2. Eichmann extended his
authority even into the death
camps by delivering at various
times specific orders stepping
up the mass slaughter.
8. Eichmann kept in his
hands considerable authority
over the Bergen Belsen and
Resienstadt camps up to the
very end" as proved by evil
dence from the international
Red Cross.
The court brushed aside Eich-
mann's denials that he had any
connection with the death
camps as "implausible . un-
true . . patent falsehoods."
The judgment also convicted
Eichmann of an intimate role
in the slaughter of 2 million
Jews, partisans and gypsies by
the notorious "Einsatz Com
mandos," the murder squads
which followed the Nazi armies
into the east.
The court found that evi.
dence proved Eichmann's bu-
reau in the Gestapo received
the detailed reports from the
murder squads and distributed
them to other Gestapo units.
The court also rejected Eich.
mann's contention that he was
only an order taker. Judge
Halevy emphasized an orde1
from Eichmann to the SIS il
Warsaw to include foreign Jew
as we'll as Polish Jews in evacu
ations from the Ghetto-"evac
uationS meaning extermina
ton"
This proves the accused wa