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Eichmann Tape Asks No Mercy
JERUSALEM — (UPI) — The recorded voice of Adolf Eichmann told the court today he deserved no mercy and perhaps ought to have hanged himself in public.
At a point where he was placing the main blame on his superiors, he added:
Wednesday. April 19. 1961 University Daily Kansan
The voice boomed through the courtroom from a tape recorder. It was a statement Eichmann dictated shortly after he was flown to Israel from Argentina for the purpose of being put on trial here on charges of slaughtering 6 million Jews.
"I cannot claim my hands are clean . . . I will not ask for mercy. I am not deserving of mercy. Perhaps I ought to hang myself in public so that all the world's antisemites can have the terrible nature
EICHMANN'S STATEMENT was played in the courtroom as evidence for the prosecution.
THIS IS THE PICTURE the former Gestapo Lieutenant-Colonel drew of himself:
of their acts made clear to them."
- He was so sensitive to blood and suffering that he never could have been a doctor.
- He tried several times to get out of the assignment as a traffic officer, routing Jews to the extermination camps. But always was ordered to go back and always he obeyed.
- When the news was broken to him that Adolf Hitler planned to exterminate every Jew in Europe. he was so shocked "the breath went out of my body."
- After a trip to an extermination camp he went to Berlin and faced up to Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Nazi police. He told Himmler the Nazis were making a mistake in killing the Jews and he wanted
no part of it. He was ordered to go back to work. He did.
HE NEVER FORMULATED any policy for the destruction of the Jews. He was too far down in the chain of command to do that.
On the witness stand was Capt. Avnner Less of the Israeli police. Less would play a short tape, and the court translator would translate the German into Hebrew, the official language of the court. Then another tape and another translation.
WILMINGTON, Del. — (UPI)— Dixie, a 9-year-old cat, lost from its owners, headed for the next best place in town. It stopped at the home of Mrs. K. C. Johnson, head of the Welfare Committee of the Delaware Humane Association.
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