Israel opens online archive of Nazi war criminal’s trial
Israel’s national archives have announced that they are enabling public access online to hundreds of thousands of documents from the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi war criminal who was one of the key organisers behind the Holocaust, AL-Monitor via AFP reported on January 27th.
Arranged to take place at the same time as the International Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27th, which marks eight decades since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, the national archives posted 380,000 pages of “chilling testimony, correspondence, lists and photographs” on their website, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
Following World War II, Eichmann had fled to Argentina to live there using a fake identity. In 1960, Eichmann was captured by Israeli spies following a years-long organised search for him. He was covertly brough to Israel to face trial.
AL-Monitor via AFP
