{"id":37334,"date":"2024-10-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37334"},"modified":"2024-10-23T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:30:46","slug":"the-eichmann-trial-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37334","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Eichmann Trial&#8221; (2023) directed by Elliott Levitt \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z102424zview_eichmanntrial.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>The Eichmann Trial<\/b><\/i><\/em> (2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Elliot Levitt\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fifteen years after the end of World War II, Nazi Adolf Eichmann was captured where he was living in Argentina.\u00a0 Eichmann was then transported to Jerusalem to stand trial.\u00a0 Eichmann was charged with crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership in a criminal organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trial lasted 56 days and garnered world-wide coverage.\u00a0 Over 100 witnesses were called.\u00a0 There were thousands of pages of documents.\u00a0 Eichmann admitted that he didn&#8217;t like Jews and viewed them as the enemy.\u00a0 Eichmann further admitted he made the statement: &#8220;I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.&#8221;\u00a0 Eichmann claimed his statement was about the Soviets.\u00a0 Eichmann&#8217;s defense was that he hadn&#8217;t personally killed anyone and he was just following orders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eichmann was found guilty on 15 counts of crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes against the Jews, Poles, Slovenes, and Roma, and membership in three criminal organizations (the Gestapo, the SD, and the SS).\u00a0 The judges ruled that Eichmann had not simply been following orders but had been a Nazi true-believer and one of the key principals in genocide.\u00a0 Eichmann was sentenced to death by hanging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Appeals for clemency were heard by the Israeli Supreme Court and Israeli President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi to no avail.\u00a0 Adolf Eichmann was executed by hanging on June 1, 1962.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Eichmann Trial\u00a0<\/em>is an excellent documentary.\u00a0 Kudos for director Elliott Levitt for his use of trial, news and other vintage footage to not only cover the trial but to place its importance in a historical context.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; 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