'I prosecuted an architect of the Holocaust' - BBC News

in the ninth week of his jerusalem trial for the murder of six million jews adolf eichmann takes the stand in his bulletproof dock aishman was head of what is called the jewish department in the ss and the gestapo in many german documents it was called operation aishman the murder of the jews of europe hitler and himmler and these people who actually made the order to kill all the jews in 1941 they of course were more guilty but aishman was in charge of the whole of the carrying out of the holocaust heisman in 1960 was caught by israeli agents in the archetype and there he was brought to israel two days after he arrived in israel the minister of justice called me and he said mr bach i imagine you will be one of the prosecutors in the trial but would you be prepared also to be in charge of the investigation the whole world spoke about it in all the newspapers you could see that eichmann was proud about anything he did in order to prevent the saving of a single jew and then they took my mother and she said let us go before her they called mother and shot her too there was a man in israel i put him on the stage as a witness and then i asked him what happened to your family he said well i had no idea what auschwitz meant and he said my wife when we came there was sent to the left which was sold afterwards to the gas chambers and i had a little daughter two and a half years old and of course they said also to the left then they asked me what was your profession i said well i was an engineer in the army so they said to the writers they wanted to keep me to do some work and then who else i had a boy how old was he 13. so the ss commander said well i have to talk to the commander-in-chief so it took a few minutes and then he said to the boy run after your mother and i saw the witness he was back there with his equity's eyes and he said i couldn't see my wife anymore she was swallowed up in the crowd i couldn't see my son anymore he was swallowed up in the crowd but my little daughter she had a red coat and that little red dot getting smaller and smaller this is how my family disappeared from my life at that time my little daughter was exactly two and a half years old and i had bought her a red coat two weeks before that so when the witness said that about the red coat it suddenly cut off my voice completely i suddenly couldn't utter the sound until this very day i can be in a restaurant i can be in the street and i suddenly feel my heart beating and i turn around and i i see a little boy or a little girl in a red coat you

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Length: 4min 6sec (246 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 24 2016