Past in Perspective.

Adolf Eichmann organised the deportation of over 1.5 million Jews along with their trans portation to ghettos, detention camps andgas chambers. After the liberation, Eichmann was charged with crimes against humanity and the Jewish people, amongst various other charges, and his trial commenced in 1961 in Jerusalem. His main line of defence was that he did not shape the policy of the Final Solution and instead, was just a small part of the larger structure of Hitler's government. He asserted that he was only following orders like a dutiful public servant and thus, did not...

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