Royal University of Law and Economic The Trial

Royal University of Law and Economic The Trial of Adolf Eichmann International Criminal Law Khoun Sreyroeurn Sen Le Dom Sophonreaksa

Adolf Eichmann’s Background • He is the eldest of five children, was born in 1906 to a Calvinist, Protestant family in Solingen, Germany. • His parents were Adolf Karl Eichmann, a bookkeeper, and Maria (née Schefferling), a housewife. After the death of Maria in 1916, Eichmann's father married Maria Zawrzel, a devout Protestant with two sons. • Adolf Eichmann married Veronika Liebl and have four children. Adolf Eichmann

• As a youth, he moved with his family to Linz, Austria. There he completed his basic schooling and began training in mechanical engineering. He did not finish his studies. • After failing to complete his engineering studies, Eichmann had various jobs including working as a : • laborer in his father's small mining company • working in sales for an electrical construction company. • worked as a travelling salesman for an American oil company.

How did he get involved? • Austrian government banned the Nazi Party in 1933 • Moved to Nazi Germany and joined the SS “Austrian Legion in exile” • After a year, was transferred to the Security Service and found niche for himself as an “expert: on Jewish affairs. • He organized the expulsions for 45, 000 Austrian Jews • Became known in SS circles as the expert on forced emigration

What happened? • He was one of 15 who attended the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942 • Jews were forced to wear the yellow Star of David for easy identification • About 25 percent of each train load, the strongest men and women, were spared for slave labor • Many died of starvation, sickness, and overwork • He unsuccessfully sought to trade the lives of one million Jews for 10, 000 trucks, 1944

Continue • transported millions to their deaths at infamous camps such as Auschwitz, Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor and Belsee • In August 1944 the “Master of Death” could report to Himmler that approximately 4 million Jews had died in the death camps and that another 2 million had been killed by mobile extermination units

After the War • The holocaust was the systematic slaughter of not only 6 million Jews, the primary victims, but also 5 million others, in period of 11 years

The Capture § Eichmann created a new identity with the name of Ricardo Klement as the unassuming employee of the Mercedes-Benz car factory in Buenos Aires.

• Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion placed Harel in charge of the operation to locate, seize, and secretly extract Eichmann from Argentina to Israel to stand trial. ØIsser Harel was a spymaster and the director of the Mossad, an intelligent and security service of Israel. Isser Harel’s photo

• On May 11 1960, the Mossad team kidnapped Eichmann as he walked from the bus stop to his home and he was then sent Israel by an Israeli diplomat aircraft.

Charges Against Eichmann was charged under a 1950 Israeli law enacted to punish Nazis and their collaborators. He was charged on 15 counts included the involvement in an outlawed organization.

v The Judges § The three-judge panel trying the case consisted of Justice Moshe Landau, Dr. Benjamin Halevy, and Dr. Yitzhak Raveh.

The Court Adolf Eichmann was put in the bulletproof glass box to prevent any deadly attacked. In the court, he claimed that he had acted under orders by his superior. It was the Nazi government’s faults.

Continue • After a four-month recess and was sentenced to death by the court on December 15 1961. • On June 1 1962, Adolf Eichmann wash hanged for crimes against Jewish people by the age of 56. • Adolf Eichmann’s last word "Long live Germany! Long live Austria! Long live Argentina! I owe a lot to these countries and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and of my flag!"

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