0:00:02 > 0:00:08This programme contains some strong language and scenes which some viewers may find upsetting
0:00:08 > 0:00:12September 2nd 1945. The war is over. 50 million dead, including six million murdered Jews.
0:00:12 > 0:00:16As leading Nazis are captured, one name slowly rises to the top
0:00:16 > 0:00:18of the most wanted list -
0:00:18 > 0:00:22Adolf Eichmann, the SS officer accused of planning
0:00:22 > 0:00:25the Final Solution to the Jewish Question.
0:00:25 > 0:00:29It will take the Israeli secret service 15 years to track him down
0:00:29 > 0:00:31to his hiding place in Argentina.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35On 11th May 1960,
0:00:35 > 0:00:38a man living under the name Ricardo Clement is kidnapped
0:00:38 > 0:00:42and taken to a safe house in Buenos Aires to be interrogated.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45What is your name? Your name.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48What is your SS number?
0:00:48 > 0:00:49Your name.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51- ON TAPE:- 'Eichmann.'- Say it.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54'Eichmann. Eichmann.'
0:00:54 > 0:00:55Say it.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00My name is Adolf Eichmann.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09SPEAKS IN HEBREW
0:01:09 > 0:01:10In capturing the man...
0:01:10 > 0:01:13in capturing the man responsible...
0:01:13 > 0:01:17..responsible for the execution of the final solution of the Jewish problem,
0:01:17 > 0:01:19you have done something truly extraordinary.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21Eichmann will be judged in Israel.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24To tell the world...no, to show the world, show the world
0:01:24 > 0:01:26what the Nazis did...
0:01:26 > 0:01:29to show the world what the Nazis did to the Jewish people.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33Let's use television to do this. Let's use television to do this.
0:01:33 > 0:01:34Only television can do this.
0:01:36 > 0:01:37And...
0:01:37 > 0:01:40in granting permission for Capital Cities
0:01:40 > 0:01:43to film the trial of Eichmann on Israeli soil...
0:01:44 > 0:01:46..you will become a part of
0:01:46 > 0:01:51the most important television event in history - past, present and...
0:01:53 > 0:01:55Yeah, why not? ..future.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58The Prime Minister will see you now.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04- Prime Minister. - PHONE RINGS
0:02:04 > 0:02:06- 'Mr Hurwitz?'- Speaking.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10'Milton Fruchtman. I'd like to talk to you about a job.'
0:02:10 > 0:02:12You do know no-one's hiring me right now?
0:02:12 > 0:02:13'Yes, but I'd like to change that.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16'Adolf Eichmann, it's going to be the trial of the century.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19'How would you like to film it?'
0:02:19 > 0:02:21The papers call him a monster.
0:02:21 > 0:02:25Sure. Because monsters sell more papers.
0:02:25 > 0:02:29This says you're officially off the blacklist.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32Yeah, well...it's the unofficial ones you need to worry about.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52- You're working on the trial?- Yes.
0:02:52 > 0:02:57We should have put a bullet in his head in Buenos Aires and left him there.
0:02:58 > 0:02:59Welcome to Israel.
0:03:01 > 0:03:02Thank you.
0:03:07 > 0:03:08Leo Hurwitz?
0:03:09 > 0:03:13Well, you're holding a sign that says Leo Hurwitz, so I guess.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15- Pleasure to meet you, Mr Hurwitz. - Leo.
0:03:15 > 0:03:16I'm Perry, as in Como.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18A pleasure to meet you, Perry.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21- How was the flight? - I managed to get some work done.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23Lucky you. Coming over was my first time on a plane.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26Puked so much they locked me in a toilet till we touched down.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28That's great, Perry.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Without cameras we can't film.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33We have to find a way. Of course I'm going to tell him.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35We're working around the clock
0:03:35 > 0:03:36- to make sure that... - KNOCK ON DOOR
0:03:38 > 0:03:39He's arrived.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42Yeah, I'm literally about to offer him my hand to shake.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44We'll talk later.
0:03:44 > 0:03:45- Leo.- Milton.
0:03:45 > 0:03:48Leo Hurwitz, I cannot tell you how relieved I am
0:03:48 > 0:03:51- to finally have you here. You have cases?- In the car.
0:03:51 > 0:03:53- Drop them off at the hotel, would you, Perry?- Sure.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56I say hotel, it's not really a hotel as we would know it,
0:03:56 > 0:03:58but it's clean, they have rooms, serve food.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Meet Judy, my secretary.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05- Hi.- And Alan, my production assistant.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08You join us from a kibbutz, right, where you've been working on...
0:04:08 > 0:04:09A small documentary.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13And, if I'm being completely honest, a particularly beautiful girl.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19- But, yeah, mainly the documentary. - It's a pleasure to meet you, Alan.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23- Alan, have the team meet us in the courtroom in ten minutes.- Right.
0:04:23 > 0:04:24How's that looking?
0:04:24 > 0:04:25That's excellent.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27We should talk about that.
0:04:27 > 0:04:28Come and meet David.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33Leo, I'd like you to meet our lawyer, David Arad.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36David, we finally have our director.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38- Mr Hurwitz.- Leo, please.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40It's wonderful to meet you at last.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43You got a problem, David'll fix it in five different ways -
0:04:43 > 0:04:46one of which may or may not involve the use of a gun.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50Most issues can generally be resolved by understanding the position of the other.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53- The issue with the judges, however...- There's an issue?
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Milton, there's an issue with the judges?
0:04:57 > 0:04:59As you know, we have a contract
0:04:59 > 0:05:02with the Israeli government to film this trial.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04But there is a condition.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07The three trial judges must give their permission.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09And we don't have permission?
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Yesterday they came to inspect the cameras.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15- And...?- And they found them too loud and too visible.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19- I flew 5,500 miles and you don't have permission to film?- Yet.
0:05:19 > 0:05:23Yet. I find that so reassuring(!)
0:05:23 > 0:05:27Look, I know this is a shock, but right now we need to press on.
0:05:29 > 0:05:30Come.
0:05:31 > 0:05:36Leo, this is Ron and Roy, our terrific Marconi engineers from England.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39- Terrific's perhaps overstating the point, but...- We're well-trained
0:05:39 > 0:05:42- and at your disposal, Mr Hurwitz. - Leo, please.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45We're having a bit of trouble with the contrast.
0:05:45 > 0:05:49Well, that's not really going to be an issue unless we find invisible cameras.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51Come on, I'll show you the courtroom.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54- Thank you, gentlemen. Carry on. - Thanks.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59The court will be connected to the control room
0:05:59 > 0:06:02by cables running between the two roofs.
0:06:03 > 0:06:06So, in addition to the trial being relayed live
0:06:06 > 0:06:09to Israelis in the streets, there is also going to be
0:06:09 > 0:06:12live coverage every day on the radio.
0:06:12 > 0:06:13What about television, Milton?
0:06:13 > 0:06:16We don't even know if we're going to be able to film.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18What alternative do we have?
0:06:18 > 0:06:20- Well...- I'm glad you're so positive. - What else would I be?
0:06:24 > 0:06:25The press room.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29We got phones, telex, typewriters, a direct feed to the courtroom
0:06:29 > 0:06:32allowing hundreds of people, from reporters to philosophers,
0:06:32 > 0:06:34to scrutinise, decipher and judge
0:06:34 > 0:06:36every inch of your footage as it unfolds.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39- If there is any footage.- There has to be footage, and there will be.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42- C'mon, let's meet your cameramen. - My cameramen?- Here we go.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Milton, I pick my own team.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47- Jesus, it's a theatre.- Ah...
0:06:50 > 0:06:53Mr Hurwitz is here, so I'll bring him over. ..Leo.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58I'd like to introduce you to your camera operators.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01This is Rolf, Yaakov, Millek, and Fred.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06On behalf of my colleagues, I'd like to welcome you to our country.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08It's a great honour for us
0:07:08 > 0:07:11to work with the distinguished director of such documentaries
0:07:11 > 0:07:18as Native Land and the anti-fascist masterpiece Strange Victory.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21It's a pleasure to meet you gentlemen...
0:07:21 > 0:07:24It's shameful that an artist of your stature and humanity
0:07:24 > 0:07:28should be blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
0:07:28 > 0:07:29It's frightening what these guys know.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31They even knew I worked with Rita Hayworth.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35These gentlemen are the creme de la creme of the Israeli film industry.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38- Yeah, well, they'll need to be. - Milton, your taxi's here.
0:07:38 > 0:07:39Thank you. Excuse me.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43It's a pleasure to meet you, gentlemen.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49You'll like the Israeli press attache.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51He's like the sphinx, only Jewish.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54- Thanks, Judy. - We don't have time for PR, Milton.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56This isn't PR. We have a contract with the Israeli government.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00They're concerned the judges won't ever give us permission to film.
0:08:00 > 0:08:01And what if they don't?
0:08:01 > 0:08:04If they don't, Capital Cities lose the half million dollars
0:08:04 > 0:08:05they've spent on the production,
0:08:05 > 0:08:0937 countries we promised footage to will never see the Eichmann trial
0:08:09 > 0:08:11and, well, our names become the punchline
0:08:11 > 0:08:14to an industry joke told for decades to come.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33Why are we meeting the Israeli press secretary at an Arab cafe?
0:08:33 > 0:08:35Because the coffee is out of this world.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38The newspapers describe this as the trial of the century,
0:08:38 > 0:08:42but my superiors see it as something far more important.
0:08:42 > 0:08:46They see this trial as an opportunity for a Jewish Nuremberg.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Survivors of the genocide are very often
0:08:49 > 0:08:51held in low regard here in Israel,
0:08:51 > 0:08:53as if they were complicit
0:08:53 > 0:08:56in the crimes that they endured.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Israel and the world
0:08:58 > 0:09:02needs to hear what happened to them
0:09:02 > 0:09:04from the mouths of the survivors.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09So...we will broadcast it live on Israeli radio,
0:09:09 > 0:09:13but it is essential that the world must also see it
0:09:13 > 0:09:16in their homes on their television screens.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19You said you could film this trial.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21So the judges must give us their approval.
0:09:21 > 0:09:26Your superiors couldn't quietly insist the judges give it?
0:09:26 > 0:09:30Unlike Nazi Germany, Israel does not undermine or compromise
0:09:30 > 0:09:32the independence of its judiciary.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35We've done all we can to address the judges' concerns.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37- Clearly not. - Well, we're working on it.
0:09:37 > 0:09:42In the meantime, you leave us in a very difficult position.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45The decision to televise was a very great gamble.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48Now it must pay off. Many necks are on the line.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Are you talking to other companies about taking over the production?
0:09:51 > 0:09:54We would be unwise not to have a fallback, would we not?
0:09:54 > 0:09:57However you do it, the trial must be filmed.
0:09:57 > 0:09:58You have three days.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01- Three?- You told me five.
0:10:01 > 0:10:02Three days, gentlemen.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04Mmm.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08You should try the honey cake, it is the best in Jerusalem.
0:10:14 > 0:10:18In the control room, you said... What did you say?
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Milton, I'm so tired I can't remember what I said 20 seconds ago,
0:10:21 > 0:10:23- let alone an hour ago.- You said
0:10:23 > 0:10:25something about a invisible camera.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Leo, that's it.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31That is it. We hide the cameras from view.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33We make them part of the fabric of the courtroom.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Put them in the wall?
0:10:35 > 0:10:38Yeah, then put a window in the wall so they can see through.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40- All right.- No, this could work.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43- So the cameras need to be able to move.- OK, fine.
0:10:43 > 0:10:44Jesus, we're going to need
0:10:44 > 0:10:47every carpenter and plasterer in Jerusalem for this.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49And we've got three days to do it in.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Just here on the left, please.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Leo...get some sleep.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00I may feel well enough to get the first plane back to New York.
0:11:00 > 0:11:01See you tomorrow.
0:11:38 > 0:11:39- Yes?- Hurwitz.
0:11:39 > 0:11:40Ah, yes, Mr Horowitz.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44Hurwitz.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47As I said. You are tired, yes?
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Very.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51- You are Jewish?- Uh-huh.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54All Jews sleep well in Jerusalem, Mr Horowitz.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Hurwitz.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17'Gentlemen, as you know, the judges will be returning in two days,
0:13:17 > 0:13:21'and when they do, we need to be working as a team.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23'Because if we fail to get permission,
0:13:23 > 0:13:25'well, we'll all be going home.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28'I believe that in my absence you've been familiarised with
0:13:28 > 0:13:31'the technical aspects of our television cameras.'
0:13:31 > 0:13:37Those cameras must now become extensions of your own eyes,
0:13:37 > 0:13:41so that you can become extensions of mine.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43Right, right, right. OK, stop.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46'Now, we have three days to become a team.'
0:13:46 > 0:13:48To act...to act...to act as one.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50All right, let's give this a shot, shall we?
0:13:50 > 0:13:54'As you film, I will edit directly onto a master tape.'
0:13:54 > 0:13:56I'm going to need 100% of your concentration.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Ready, camera two.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00This is going to be mentally and physically challenging.
0:14:00 > 0:14:04Most likely the most interesting thing you ever do.
0:14:04 > 0:14:05Got it.
0:14:05 > 0:14:06Take two.
0:14:07 > 0:14:12Our objective is to use images to reveal the events of that courtroom.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Ready on the auditorium. And cue.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17Take two... Take three.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Good.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21The camera bridges distance.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24Better... 'It will show detail...'
0:14:24 > 0:14:27Take four. '..of Eichmann's face, his hands...' Take one.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30'..the expressions of the judges, the counsel.'
0:14:30 > 0:14:34Camera one on the judges' bench. Thank you, nice and smooth.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37Take two. Take two, take two.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39OK, stop. Stop. Stop.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42I need you to switch immediately.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44'I want shots of Eichmann as he speaks and reacts
0:14:44 > 0:14:47'to things said and done at the court.'
0:14:47 > 0:14:50Let's go again, gentlemen, until we get this running smooth like water.
0:14:50 > 0:14:55'Feelings that he may try and mask emotionally may manifest themselves
0:14:55 > 0:14:58'in a way that he cannot physically suppress.'
0:14:58 > 0:15:00You want us to climb into the glass box with Eichmann
0:15:00 > 0:15:03- and ask, "What kind of man are you?" - Exactly.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Gentlemen, I don't believe in monsters,
0:15:06 > 0:15:11but I do believe that men are responsible for monstrous deeds.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15What transformed this ordinary man into someone who was capable
0:15:15 > 0:15:18of sending hundreds and thousands of children to their death
0:15:18 > 0:15:21while going home every evening and kissing his own children goodnight?
0:15:21 > 0:15:23A human being like any one of us.
0:15:23 > 0:15:24He is not like us.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32I am not Eichmann, Mr Hurwitz.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34Under the right circumstances,
0:15:34 > 0:15:36anyone is capable of fascist behaviour.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39Not...I.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Yaakov, anyone is capable.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44Not...I.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52PHONE RINGS
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Fruchtman.
0:15:54 > 0:15:56'Mr Fruchtman, listen carefully.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00'You will close production down and leave Israel immediately.'
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Who is this?
0:16:02 > 0:16:05The trial of Obersturmbannfuhrer Eichmann will not be allowed to take place.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08'If you don't leave, Mr Fruchtman, your wife, your children -
0:16:08 > 0:16:10'I will kill them all.'
0:16:29 > 0:16:31PHONE RINGS
0:16:37 > 0:16:41- Hello.- Honey...I won't make it home for supper tonight.
0:16:41 > 0:16:43- 'I have some things to run through here.'- OK.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46- How are the kids?- The kids? Fine.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48How are things there? How's Leo getting on?
0:16:48 > 0:16:50He's putting them through their paces.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53- 'How are you?'- Fine. We're good.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56- 'The kids?' - Yeah, the kids are good.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59- 'How's the apartment?' - The apartment? In what sense?
0:17:01 > 0:17:02Generally.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04I think the apartment's fine, Milton.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06You want me to go and ask it?
0:17:07 > 0:17:10You have got these calls before?
0:17:10 > 0:17:12I received a few in New York
0:17:12 > 0:17:15when it was announced that I was to produce this show.
0:17:15 > 0:17:20A couple of crank letters to Capital Cities office. Nazi bullshit.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Should I warn my people?
0:17:23 > 0:17:26It would alarm them unnecessarily.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29I will add to the security presence in your building.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31And my family?
0:17:31 > 0:17:33- I will take care of it.- How?
0:17:33 > 0:17:35By taking care of it.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39I want to talk to you about your cameraman, Millek.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45OK, gentlemen... and lady, ssh, thank you.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47As some of you may know,
0:17:47 > 0:17:51this afternoon we learnt that the Israeli authorities have revoked
0:17:51 > 0:17:53their permission for Millek to operate in the courtroom.
0:17:53 > 0:17:57- Why?- I am a member of the Israeli Communist Party
0:17:57 > 0:17:59who may, in their mind, wish to attack Eichmann.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02Who in their right mind wouldn't want to attack the bastard?
0:18:02 > 0:18:05- Doesn't mean they will. - I might jump from my box with a knife between my teeth.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07All right, thank you, thank you, thank you.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10I have tried to explain at great length
0:18:10 > 0:18:13that Millek has no desire to attack Eichmann
0:18:13 > 0:18:16and every desire to see him stand trial for his crimes.
0:18:16 > 0:18:17But to no avail.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20So, tomorrow morning I start looking for a replacement cameraman
0:18:20 > 0:18:22and hope to find someone by lunchtime tomorrow.
0:18:22 > 0:18:27Meanwhile, Millek will work alongside Leo in the control room.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29Excuse me.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32Did he say control room?
0:18:37 > 0:18:38Leo?
0:18:40 > 0:18:43We can't just accept this stupid decision about Millek.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Their paranoia is through the roof, as we know, so you and me,
0:18:46 > 0:18:49we bite several bullets and get on with what we're here to do.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Do you want me to tell you what it was like
0:18:51 > 0:18:54- being blacklisted for ten years under McCarthy?- Be my guest.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Then I can tell you how difficult it was to hire you
0:18:56 > 0:18:59when everyone said don't, precisely because you'd been blacklisted.
0:18:59 > 0:19:00Jesus, you getting me?
0:19:06 > 0:19:07Look...
0:19:09 > 0:19:11..I know there were easier names you could have gone to.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16- Good names.- Mm-hm, but not the best name.
0:19:16 > 0:19:17We'll talk to them about Millek,
0:19:17 > 0:19:21but right now our focus has to be on the judges coming, first thing.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Without them we're screwed anyway.
0:19:25 > 0:19:27I'm going to go back in.
0:19:27 > 0:19:28Milton...
0:19:29 > 0:19:31..when the judges come tomorrow,
0:19:31 > 0:19:32bring them straight to the courtroom.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Don't mention the cameras.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36We will sell this.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31CAR HORN BLASTS
0:20:34 > 0:20:35HE SIGHS WITH RELIEF
0:20:44 > 0:20:47It's the judges. They'll be here in two minutes.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53They're on their way. Ready?
0:20:53 > 0:20:55As ready as we'll ever be.
0:21:13 > 0:21:17'Gentlemen, as you know, the scale of this operation is unprecedented.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19'But, as I said to the Prime Minister,'
0:21:19 > 0:21:22this trial is a unique global event.
0:21:22 > 0:21:26Work is clearly taking place. We are here to re-examine the cameras.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28But you do not appear to have prepared for us.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30The cameras are not present.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33Gentlemen, would you follow me?
0:21:42 > 0:21:45- Alan, could you run the VT, please? - Of course.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48Gentlemen, as some of you may know,
0:21:48 > 0:21:52we will be sending nightly video packages to over 30 countries.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55The scale of this operation is...
0:21:55 > 0:21:58You were filming us? From where? I don't understand.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01We've taken the cameras out of the courtroom and we've hidden them.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04But how they will see in?
0:22:05 > 0:22:07We've rebuilt the walls of the courtroom
0:22:07 > 0:22:10to create space to hide our cameras.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13We've built slits into the walls which the cameras can track along,
0:22:13 > 0:22:16giving a range of positions from which to film.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21The slits are covered with chicken wire
0:22:21 > 0:22:23- to reflect the courtroom lights. - This way, please.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27This enables the camera to see through the wire into the court
0:22:27 > 0:22:29while still being masked from sight.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33We hope that this has addressed all of your concerns.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43If the judges say no cameras a second time?
0:22:43 > 0:22:46There won't be a third.
0:22:46 > 0:22:48- Well, even to get this far...- No,
0:22:48 > 0:22:50there's no consolation prize, Eva.
0:22:50 > 0:22:51I'll be the guy who dropped
0:22:51 > 0:22:52the Eichmann show.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54They'll hang me out to dry.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58I'll have to send you out to work
0:22:58 > 0:22:59on the streets to support us.
0:23:02 > 0:23:03KNOCK AT DOOR
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Get dressed. Wait with the children.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09- What?- Just do it. - KNOCKING
0:23:10 > 0:23:12KNOCKING CONTINUES
0:23:12 > 0:23:13Who is it?
0:23:16 > 0:23:18KNOCKS AGAIN Milton, what's happening?
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Who's there?
0:23:20 > 0:23:21David Landor.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33I hope I'm not disturbing you.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35Please...
0:23:48 > 0:23:50KNOCK ON DOOR
0:23:50 > 0:23:51Leo?
0:23:51 > 0:23:53If you're asleep, wake up. Leo!
0:23:53 > 0:23:55What's happening?
0:23:55 > 0:23:56Read.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03"Where there is no publicity, there is no justice.
0:24:03 > 0:24:07"It keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10"The security of security is publicity."
0:24:10 > 0:24:13We did it. We're going to film the trial
0:24:13 > 0:24:17of Obersturmbannfuhrer Adolf Eichmann, Nazi Party number 889895,
0:24:17 > 0:24:21SS number 45326. Christ, Leo, this is really happening.
0:24:22 > 0:24:23It's great.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25HE EXHALES
0:24:26 > 0:24:28I left Eva in the bath.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30Right.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33- See you later.- Right.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55I'm standing in front of the building
0:24:55 > 0:24:57where in only a few hours' time
0:24:57 > 0:25:01what is being described as the trial of the century will begin
0:25:01 > 0:25:05and the eyes of the world will fall upon Adolf Eichmann,
0:25:05 > 0:25:08the Nazi responsible for organising
0:25:08 > 0:25:12the mass murder of six million European Jews.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14It isn't only Eichmann who will be on trial
0:25:14 > 0:25:16over the next few days and weeks.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19The state of Israel will also be under intense scrutiny
0:25:19 > 0:25:22as it attempts to mount a fair trial
0:25:22 > 0:25:25of the man tasked with destroying the Jewish people.
0:25:25 > 0:25:29This city, this country, the entire world,
0:25:29 > 0:25:32is under a state of heightened anticipation.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34The stakes could not be higher.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41'In televising this trial, the state of Israel hopes to show
0:25:41 > 0:25:46'many of its own people across the world the full horror of what befell
0:25:46 > 0:25:51'those of their faith who lived in Europe through the Nazi era.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55'Israel hopes to impart to a new generation an understanding
0:25:55 > 0:25:59'of the cunning cruelty employed by the Nazis to lure their people
0:25:59 > 0:26:04'to their deaths through the lie they were being sent to work camps.
0:26:05 > 0:26:09'And it is also seeking to impress on the consciousness of humanity
0:26:09 > 0:26:13'that these crimes, which have no precedent in the entire history
0:26:13 > 0:26:17'of man on Earth, were committed in an enlightened age,
0:26:17 > 0:26:19'on Jews this time,
0:26:19 > 0:26:22'but could be committed against others in the future.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25'To show the world that, in the end,
0:26:25 > 0:26:28'this is a crime that affects every one of us.'
0:26:34 > 0:26:37All right, gentlemen. This is it.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40Moment of truth.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48- What are you thinking at this precise moment?- Hmm?
0:26:48 > 0:26:50Of everything that could go wrong.
0:26:56 > 0:26:57DOOR ENTRY BUZZES
0:27:05 > 0:27:08All right, gentlemen, rehearsal is over.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Camera three, ready.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Take three.
0:27:15 > 0:27:16Camera four, ready.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18CLERK INSTRUCTS COURT
0:27:24 > 0:27:26Stay on the bench for the judges.
0:27:37 > 0:27:38Camera four, ready.
0:27:39 > 0:27:40On Eichmann. Take four.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42Adolf Eichmann, rise.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47You are accused before this court according to the indictment
0:27:47 > 0:27:49which includes 15 counts...
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Wide on the auditorium.
0:27:51 > 0:27:57Adolf, son of Adolf Karl Eichmann, is accused hereby, first count.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01Nature of offence - crime against the Jewish people.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03Particulars of the offence -
0:28:03 > 0:28:08the accused, together with others during the period of 1936...
0:28:08 > 0:28:12- Take two.- ..to 1945 caused the killings of millions of Jews
0:28:12 > 0:28:16in his capacity as the person responsible for the execution
0:28:16 > 0:28:20of the Nazi plan for the physical extermination of the Jews,
0:28:20 > 0:28:23known as the Final Solution of the Jewish Problem.
0:28:23 > 0:28:27Here ends the first count brought against you.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29Close on Eichmann.
0:28:29 > 0:28:33CHARGES READ OUT
0:28:33 > 0:28:35Adolf Eichmann,
0:28:35 > 0:28:39do you plead guilty or not guilty to count one of the indictment?
0:28:39 > 0:28:41SPEAKS IN GERMAN
0:28:41 > 0:28:45TRANSLATOR: In the spirit of the indictment, not guilty.
0:28:46 > 0:28:49And now the most important trial of the 20th century begins.
0:28:53 > 0:28:58TRANSLATOR: In the spirit of the indictment, I am not guilty.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00..crime against humanity.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03In the spirit of the indictment, I am not guilty.
0:29:07 > 0:29:10In the spirit of the indictment, I am not guilty.
0:29:11 > 0:29:14Take four.
0:29:14 > 0:29:18- Take two.- Do you plead guilty or not guilty
0:29:18 > 0:29:20to count 15 of the indictment?
0:29:20 > 0:29:23SPEAKS IN GERMAN
0:29:23 > 0:29:27TRANSLATION: In the spirit of the indictment, not guilty.
0:29:31 > 0:29:34- NEWSREEL:- At the conclusion of the afternoon's sessions,
0:29:34 > 0:29:37the important job begins of distributing the tapes
0:29:37 > 0:29:40of the day's proceedings around the world.
0:29:40 > 0:29:42Copies of the tapes are required by broadcasters
0:29:42 > 0:29:46in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney.
0:29:46 > 0:29:51Then to the shipping, not by ship, but by air, of course.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53It is sent by one of the many airplanes
0:29:53 > 0:29:55departing daily from Lod Airport,
0:29:55 > 0:29:5890 minutes fast driving from Jerusalem.
0:29:59 > 0:30:03Then directly onto the television screens in all our homes
0:30:03 > 0:30:05in this exciting new age of mass media.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14When I first arrived, I had doubts that we'd make the beginning
0:30:14 > 0:30:16of this day, let alone the end.
0:30:16 > 0:30:20But thanks to your hard work, we did it. And...
0:30:20 > 0:30:21CHORUS OF APPROVAL
0:30:21 > 0:30:22..I very much appreciate it.
0:30:23 > 0:30:27But just how tired and exhausted you feel right now
0:30:27 > 0:30:30is an indicator of how big the job at hand is.
0:30:30 > 0:30:32We have a tremendous responsibility.
0:30:32 > 0:30:36In showing this trial to the world, we invite them
0:30:36 > 0:30:40to ask not only how Eichmann did it, but why?
0:30:44 > 0:30:48- But great work today, then. And a toast to good work.- To good work.
0:30:48 > 0:30:50- ALL:- Good work.
0:30:54 > 0:30:55HE STRUMS GENTLY
0:30:57 > 0:31:00# I know a song, it goes like this Do you know it too?
0:31:00 > 0:31:05# Oh, yes, I do, yes, I do It goes one, two, three, four... #
0:31:07 > 0:31:08DOOR OPENS
0:31:08 > 0:31:09SINGING CONTINUES INSIDE
0:31:17 > 0:31:21Whenever I see you outside of the control room, you're always looking around.
0:31:22 > 0:31:23What are you looking for, Leo?
0:31:27 > 0:31:29I'm just trying to understand this place.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32It's one and a half million people trying to stay alive.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39Don't you think it's ironic that, if it wasn't for Eichmann
0:31:39 > 0:31:42and the Nazis, we wouldn't even be having this conversation?
0:31:42 > 0:31:45The idea of Israel existed long before Eichmann and his associates.
0:31:45 > 0:31:47The idea, but not the reality.
0:31:49 > 0:31:50I do not write history, Leo.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56Before I came here, I went to see a friend in Brooklyn,
0:31:56 > 0:31:58the editor of the Jerusalem Post,
0:31:58 > 0:32:02and I talked to him about writing a weekly editorial
0:32:02 > 0:32:05of the Eichmann trial to try and promote
0:32:05 > 0:32:08conversation between Israelis about the...
0:32:08 > 0:32:09nature of fascism.
0:32:11 > 0:32:14It's an idea worth being vigilant about, wouldn't you say?
0:32:16 > 0:32:18And did your friend take you up on your kind offer?
0:32:21 > 0:32:22He was embarrassed by it.
0:32:24 > 0:32:26Are you really so surprised?
0:32:26 > 0:32:29There's too much to contend with in the present to keep looking back.
0:32:29 > 0:32:33But my point is, fascism didn't die when Hitler blew his brains out.
0:32:34 > 0:32:37Wherever people set up house, fascism can exist.
0:32:39 > 0:32:41Israel is a newborn calf, Leo,
0:32:41 > 0:32:42still struggling to its feet.
0:32:42 > 0:32:44All in good time.
0:32:48 > 0:32:50You were in Auschwitz, weren't you?
0:32:52 > 0:32:53Yes.
0:32:55 > 0:32:58As a survivor, what do you think of Eichmann when you look at him?
0:33:05 > 0:33:06I should get back inside.
0:33:08 > 0:33:09The wind is picking up.
0:33:19 > 0:33:21# ..Four, five, six, seven, eight! #
0:33:21 > 0:33:23One more for the boss!
0:33:23 > 0:33:26# I know a ditty Do you know it too?
0:33:26 > 0:33:30# Oh, yes, I do, yes, I do It goes one, two, three, four... #
0:33:37 > 0:33:38Morning, guys.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42Oh, don't you look lovely? Mmm!
0:33:59 > 0:34:00They know where we live.
0:34:01 > 0:34:02OK.
0:34:02 > 0:34:04You two?
0:34:04 > 0:34:05Go and play in your room.
0:34:05 > 0:34:07Come on, up.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09Thank you.
0:34:12 > 0:34:15Eva, the police have a security detail outside.
0:34:15 > 0:34:18How good are they if it didn't stop this?
0:34:18 > 0:34:21What if it had been a bomb? This isn't the first time, Milton.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24They're just trying to frighten me into pulling the production.
0:34:24 > 0:34:27How can you be sure it's just intended to frighten you
0:34:27 > 0:34:29- and not to warn against worse to come?- I can't.
0:34:29 > 0:34:31If you want me to stop, I'll stop.
0:34:33 > 0:34:34And give the bastards
0:34:34 > 0:34:35the satisfaction?
0:34:42 > 0:34:43I'll see you later.
0:34:46 > 0:34:47Hey...
0:34:51 > 0:34:52..I love you.
0:34:54 > 0:34:56Go to work.
0:35:35 > 0:35:38On behalf of us all, Attorney General, do not fuck this up.
0:35:38 > 0:35:39I'm nervous for him.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41Does he seem nervous?
0:35:41 > 0:35:43Well, he does have the eyes of the world on him.
0:35:46 > 0:35:50Start wide on Hausner, take three.
0:35:53 > 0:35:55And zoom in as he begins.
0:35:55 > 0:35:56HAUSNER SPEAKS HEBREW
0:35:56 > 0:35:59TRANSLATOR: When I stand before you, the judges of Israel,
0:35:59 > 0:36:04in this court to accuse Adolf Eichmann...
0:36:04 > 0:36:05Take one.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07..I do not stand alone.
0:36:07 > 0:36:09Shouldn't he go in tighter on Hausner?
0:36:09 > 0:36:11We need to establish him as a main character.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13I'm not directing a soap opera, Milton.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16It's evident that he's a main character.
0:36:16 > 0:36:23Here with me at this moment stand six million prosecutors,
0:36:23 > 0:36:28but, alas, they cannot rise
0:36:28 > 0:36:32to level the finger of accusation
0:36:32 > 0:36:35in the direction of the glass dock
0:36:35 > 0:36:37and cry out, "J'accuse,"
0:36:37 > 0:36:40against the man who sits there.
0:36:42 > 0:36:47Because their ashes have been piled up in the mounds of Auschwitz
0:36:47 > 0:36:50and the fields of Treblinka,
0:36:50 > 0:36:52or spilled into the rivers of Poland.
0:36:53 > 0:36:56And their graves are scattered
0:36:56 > 0:36:58throughout the length and breadth of Europe.
0:36:58 > 0:37:03Their blood cries to heaven,
0:37:03 > 0:37:06but their voice cannot be heard.
0:37:10 > 0:37:15Thus it falls to me to be their mouthpiece
0:37:15 > 0:37:21and to deliver the heinous accusation in their name.
0:37:29 > 0:37:33Early this morning, Adolf Eichmann...
0:37:33 > 0:37:36Whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever you do,
0:37:36 > 0:37:39remember April 1961.
0:37:39 > 0:37:42The month the Cold War got hot in Cuba
0:37:42 > 0:37:46and men finally defied gravity to blast into space.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48The solar system got a whole lot nearer,
0:37:48 > 0:37:51but the chance of peace, light years further away.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58Contrary to what you believe, we see real and widespread interest.
0:37:58 > 0:37:59Thank you, Frank, thank you.
0:37:59 > 0:38:03How can Eichmann compare with, say, Gagarin?
0:38:03 > 0:38:05People bore of spectacle very quickly.
0:38:05 > 0:38:07I think it's ridiculous to compare the two.
0:38:07 > 0:38:08But isn't your problem
0:38:08 > 0:38:11that people may choose to watch one over the other?
0:38:11 > 0:38:12Why would they? They're entirely unrelated.
0:38:12 > 0:38:15You don't think one represents the dark past
0:38:15 > 0:38:17and the other our glittering future?
0:38:17 > 0:38:19My wife is right.
0:38:19 > 0:38:21Very little can compete as a spectacle
0:38:21 > 0:38:23with the first man in space.
0:38:23 > 0:38:26Also, isn't it inherently ridiculous to try one man
0:38:26 > 0:38:28for the deaths of six million?
0:38:28 > 0:38:30I'd be inclined to agree with that.
0:38:30 > 0:38:32Then why else should people watch?
0:38:32 > 0:38:33To learn.
0:38:35 > 0:38:36Excuse me.
0:38:39 > 0:38:40Let's go.
0:38:40 > 0:38:43- Goodnight, Leo. See you tomorrow. - Goodnight.
0:38:43 > 0:38:46- Don't stay up too late.- I won't. - See you in the morning.
0:38:46 > 0:38:47Hey...
0:38:47 > 0:38:49you're not letting them get to you, are you?
0:38:49 > 0:38:51I just don't need the distraction.
0:38:51 > 0:38:52- This is bullshit.- Maybe.
0:38:52 > 0:38:54What, you think they have a point?
0:38:54 > 0:38:56We only have control over how we film the trial,
0:38:56 > 0:38:58not how the network sells it to the public.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01Once the excitement of seeing a real-life Nazi on trial goes away,
0:39:01 > 0:39:03who's to say we won't lose the audience, hmm?
0:39:04 > 0:39:06- See you in the morning.- Yeah.
0:39:10 > 0:39:12Er, Scotch, please.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16..would not be used on the Western Front.
0:39:17 > 0:39:23And accompanied by Bandi Grosz, on Eichmann's orders...
0:39:29 > 0:39:30David...
0:39:31 > 0:39:34..they can't all be watching Gagarin.
0:39:34 > 0:39:36No. He isn't and she isn't.
0:39:36 > 0:39:39Most called away to cover Gagarin have not returned.
0:39:39 > 0:39:43And those that have are following developments in Cuba.
0:39:43 > 0:39:46My children have a longer attention span.
0:39:46 > 0:39:49Journalists, they're like magpies, Mr Fruchtman.
0:39:49 > 0:39:51They're quickly drawn to the shiniest object
0:39:51 > 0:39:53in their field of vision.
0:39:55 > 0:39:58You promised the Prime Minister an audience.
0:39:59 > 0:40:03Hausner has just spent three days delivering a dry-as-dust lecture
0:40:03 > 0:40:05on Israel's right to put Eichmann on trial.
0:40:05 > 0:40:07- He's boring the shit out of me. - Well...
0:40:07 > 0:40:09Are you surprised that people are going?
0:40:09 > 0:40:12Is there nothing we can do to make his oration more compelling?
0:40:12 > 0:40:16Off the top of my head, just one - tell him to stop.
0:40:18 > 0:40:23'While his agents in Kistarcsa loaded 1,200 Jews into a deportation train
0:40:23 > 0:40:24'and sent it on its way.'
0:40:26 > 0:40:28Whatever you have planned for today,
0:40:28 > 0:40:29scrap it and think of something better.
0:40:29 > 0:40:32Shoot tighter, cut quicker - whatever you do, add more pace.
0:40:32 > 0:40:34- Milton...- Gagarin and the Bay of Pigs are killing us.
0:40:34 > 0:40:35We need to respond.
0:40:35 > 0:40:37We are responding - by holding our nerve.
0:40:37 > 0:40:40We can die holding that, Leo. No-one's fucking watching.
0:40:40 > 0:40:42Listen, you hired me because of my experience.
0:40:42 > 0:40:44That's what I'm trying to give you.
0:40:44 > 0:40:46That would be enough in a perfect world.
0:40:46 > 0:40:47But it's not perfect, Leo.
0:40:47 > 0:40:49It's a world with a Russian in space
0:40:49 > 0:40:52and counter-revolutionaries running amok on a Cuban beach.
0:40:52 > 0:40:53We need to compete with that.
0:40:53 > 0:40:54But we can't.
0:40:54 > 0:40:57Not until the witness testimony starts to come in.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59What if we've lost everyone by then?
0:41:01 > 0:41:04Milton, I need my producer to be visibly calm.
0:41:04 > 0:41:07We all know you're anxious, and none of us needs to see it.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09We've got your back, trust us.
0:41:09 > 0:41:12When the witness testimony starts, the audience will come back.
0:41:12 > 0:41:14Mm-hm. And what if they don't?
0:41:14 > 0:41:16Then you hired the wrong guy.
0:41:16 > 0:41:19In the building where Eichmann is being tried,
0:41:19 > 0:41:25the Israelis are trying to place before the conscience of the world
0:41:25 > 0:41:29the full facts of how the Nazis and Germany
0:41:29 > 0:41:31tried literally to exterminate
0:41:31 > 0:41:34millions of the Jewish people in Europe.
0:41:34 > 0:41:37HE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE
0:41:46 > 0:41:51INTERPRETER: We heard how the people were told to go to the bathhouse.
0:41:51 > 0:41:52Take one.
0:41:52 > 0:41:56They all passed through the door into a long corridor.
0:41:56 > 0:41:58We did not know exactly what was happening.
0:41:58 > 0:42:01We were in the basement, in the cellar.
0:42:01 > 0:42:04But there were SS men with great sticks,
0:42:04 > 0:42:09and they beat the people and forced them to board the trucks.
0:42:09 > 0:42:12But do you know now what these trucks were?
0:42:12 > 0:42:15Yes, now I know what they were.
0:42:15 > 0:42:20They were trucks where people were locked up inside
0:42:20 > 0:42:25and then gas was piped into the trucks.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28Gas was piped into the trucks.
0:42:31 > 0:42:32Stay in close on Eichmann.
0:42:32 > 0:42:34Copy.
0:42:34 > 0:42:37'What happened to you on the next day?'
0:42:37 > 0:42:43We, five of us, were taken from the cellar.
0:42:43 > 0:42:45More people were put into the trucks.
0:42:45 > 0:42:51We heard screams from the trucks, and the engine began working
0:42:51 > 0:42:53and the gas flowed in.
0:42:53 > 0:42:55Then the shouts died off.'
0:42:55 > 0:42:56Take three.
0:42:56 > 0:42:59And on the following day,
0:42:59 > 0:43:01you yourself went to work in the wood
0:43:01 > 0:43:04and saw what was taking place with your own eyes.
0:43:06 > 0:43:10There were 25 people there, and they were all digging pits.
0:43:10 > 0:43:12Ever seen anything like this?
0:43:13 > 0:43:15Never.
0:43:16 > 0:43:18HE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE
0:43:20 > 0:43:24You dug graves, and then the trucks...a truck arrived,
0:43:24 > 0:43:26on one of those trucks...
0:43:30 > 0:43:34When the trucks arrived we still were not permitted to approach them.
0:43:34 > 0:43:37We had to wait until the truck had stopped for a few moments -
0:43:37 > 0:43:39two or three minutes.
0:43:39 > 0:43:44And fumes were...coming out of the trucks,
0:43:44 > 0:43:45and we had to wait.
0:43:45 > 0:43:49And then five or six people opened the doors
0:43:49 > 0:43:55and...take the bodies and place them near the pits,
0:43:55 > 0:43:56right near the trenches.
0:43:59 > 0:44:01Were the people dead?
0:44:01 > 0:44:06All completely dead. No-one was alive any more.
0:44:06 > 0:44:11And, in the third truck, some bodies arrived whom you knew?
0:44:14 > 0:44:18This was after I had been working there for some time,
0:44:18 > 0:44:22when all the people of my town came.
0:44:22 > 0:44:24And who was amongst them?
0:44:26 > 0:44:29My wife and my two children.
0:44:31 > 0:44:34My wife and my two children.
0:44:35 > 0:44:40And you saw them whilst they were being removed from the truck?
0:44:41 > 0:44:44HE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE
0:44:44 > 0:44:50I lay near my wife and two children and I...
0:44:50 > 0:44:52wanted them to shoot me.
0:45:17 > 0:45:19Have you ever heard anything like it?
0:45:23 > 0:45:24We should eat.
0:45:39 > 0:45:41CHATTERING
0:45:43 > 0:45:44Still bored?
0:46:21 > 0:46:23No, it's tremendous that it's having this impact.
0:46:25 > 0:46:28It helps that Servatius isn't going to cross-examine...
0:46:28 > 0:46:30Sorry, no, no. No...
0:46:30 > 0:46:31What's that?
0:46:31 > 0:46:33I don't know what is this.
0:46:34 > 0:46:36VOICES ECHO
0:46:39 > 0:46:40Idiot.
0:46:42 > 0:46:45I don't think I'd have the strength to do it.
0:46:45 > 0:46:47Hey, identify yourself.
0:46:49 > 0:46:51Hey!
0:46:51 > 0:46:52Oh!
0:46:54 > 0:46:56..and it is just horrifying.
0:46:56 > 0:46:57ALARM RINGS
0:47:01 > 0:47:03HE GRUNTS
0:47:03 > 0:47:06He's got a grenade! He's got a grenade!
0:47:06 > 0:47:08I'll call you back.
0:47:08 > 0:47:09Have you got him?
0:47:09 > 0:47:10GUN COCKS
0:47:12 > 0:47:14You are spreading lies to the world.
0:47:14 > 0:47:15Jesus!
0:47:17 > 0:47:19Back inside! Close the door and go under your desk!
0:47:19 > 0:47:21You received my letter?
0:47:21 > 0:47:22Back inside!
0:47:22 > 0:47:24You fucking Jews, you have no right!
0:47:24 > 0:47:25You call this protection?
0:47:25 > 0:47:28We could have been killed - every single one of us.
0:47:28 > 0:47:30You let him come to my door?! Jesus Christ.
0:47:30 > 0:47:33There will be others after me!
0:47:33 > 0:47:35MUFFLED SHOUTS
0:47:48 > 0:47:50Heil Hitler.
0:47:55 > 0:47:56Gentlemen.
0:47:58 > 0:48:02Thank you all for staying behind after yet another long day,
0:48:02 > 0:48:05when bars and restaurant and beds are waiting.
0:48:05 > 0:48:08I wanted to have us all here to say two things.
0:48:08 > 0:48:10The latest audience research reveals
0:48:10 > 0:48:15that our films are being watched nightly by...huge numbers of people.
0:48:15 > 0:48:19In the US, South America, Europe, Australia -
0:48:19 > 0:48:23ordinary people are being moved and shocked by what they're seeing
0:48:23 > 0:48:26and hearing, because of our work.
0:48:26 > 0:48:30What was unknown, either wilfully or by ignorance,
0:48:30 > 0:48:32is becoming known.
0:48:32 > 0:48:36What was unspoken is being discussed and questioned.
0:48:36 > 0:48:39Which... brings me to my second point,
0:48:39 > 0:48:41which will not surprise any of you.
0:48:43 > 0:48:47Personal security. Do not take it lightly.
0:48:47 > 0:48:49As we saw today,
0:48:49 > 0:48:53there are people out there who would love to stop this trial.
0:48:53 > 0:48:54Stop us.
0:48:55 > 0:48:57Be vigilant.
0:48:57 > 0:48:58Check under the car.
0:48:58 > 0:49:00When you're setting out in the morning,
0:49:00 > 0:49:01check you're not being followed.
0:49:01 > 0:49:06If you have any issues - and I mean any -
0:49:06 > 0:49:08contact our head of security.
0:49:08 > 0:49:11Vigilance, please.
0:49:11 > 0:49:13All right, sermon over.
0:49:13 > 0:49:15Go and enjoy the rest of your evening. Thank you.
0:49:25 > 0:49:27Why didn't you tell me you were being threatened?
0:49:27 > 0:49:29You had enough on your plate.
0:49:29 > 0:49:32We eat from the same plate, Milton.
0:49:32 > 0:49:34If it happens again, let me know.
0:49:34 > 0:49:35BELL RINGS
0:49:35 > 0:49:36Sure.
0:49:39 > 0:49:41RINGING INTENSIFIES
0:49:41 > 0:49:44VOICE ECHOES: There will be others after me!
0:49:44 > 0:49:45Hey.
0:49:45 > 0:49:46Hey, it's bedtime.
0:49:46 > 0:49:48Sleep well.
0:49:48 > 0:49:49Night, Dad.
0:49:49 > 0:49:50Goodnight, Daddy.
0:49:50 > 0:49:52Sleep well.
0:49:52 > 0:49:53Go on up to bed.
0:49:53 > 0:49:55- Sorry, I fell asleep.- We all do.
0:49:55 > 0:49:57- You OK?- Yeah, you OK?
0:49:58 > 0:50:00I think so.
0:50:00 > 0:50:02OK.
0:50:03 > 0:50:05- I'll put them to bed. - Yeah, I'll be in.
0:50:08 > 0:50:10Mmm...
0:50:12 > 0:50:14CLOCK TICKS
0:50:24 > 0:50:25CROCKERY CLATTERS
0:50:30 > 0:50:31Mrs Landau...
0:50:34 > 0:50:36..I want to ask you a question.
0:50:36 > 0:50:39Ugh, my feet are too tired for questions.
0:50:39 > 0:50:41Just...just one.
0:50:41 > 0:50:42What?
0:50:42 > 0:50:45You were a refugee after the war?
0:50:45 > 0:50:47From Czechoslovakia.
0:50:47 > 0:50:49So?
0:50:49 > 0:50:50You like it here?
0:50:51 > 0:50:53I would prefer to be running the King David.
0:50:53 > 0:50:58Oh, no, I-I didn't mean this hotel - I meant Israel.
0:50:59 > 0:51:02I fought in the war for independence...
0:51:02 > 0:51:05against the British, and then the Arabs.
0:51:06 > 0:51:07Right, the Arabs.
0:51:07 > 0:51:09But this was their country.
0:51:10 > 0:51:12We wanted it more.
0:51:14 > 0:51:17So Israel is your home?
0:51:17 > 0:51:19The world gave it to us.
0:51:19 > 0:51:21It is my country now.
0:51:21 > 0:51:22But...
0:51:22 > 0:51:26what is it about it that you love so much?
0:51:26 > 0:51:30Here we breathe a free air.
0:51:30 > 0:51:33You are a Jew - you must feel this.
0:51:36 > 0:51:37All done?
0:51:38 > 0:51:40Yeah. Thank you.
0:51:52 > 0:51:54WOMAN SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE
0:51:54 > 0:51:58- INTERPRETER:- Some of the young people tried to run,
0:51:58 > 0:52:04but they were shot. They were shot right there.
0:52:04 > 0:52:10Judge Landau - how did you survive through all this?
0:52:10 > 0:52:14We... We were driven.
0:52:14 > 0:52:17We were already undressed.
0:52:17 > 0:52:21The clothes were removed, taken away.
0:52:21 > 0:52:26Our father did not want to undress. He remained in his underwear.
0:52:26 > 0:52:30We were driven up to the grave...
0:52:30 > 0:52:32YAAKOV GASPS
0:52:32 > 0:52:33Milton...
0:52:33 > 0:52:36I need to stop.
0:52:36 > 0:52:38Yaakov, are you OK?
0:52:38 > 0:52:39I cannot breathe.
0:52:39 > 0:52:41Yaakov? Yaakov?
0:52:41 > 0:52:43Leo, Yaakov's in trouble.
0:52:43 > 0:52:45I need to go get him out.
0:52:45 > 0:52:48Our father was beaten...
0:52:50 > 0:52:52Yaakov, stay with the camera.
0:52:52 > 0:52:53Milton's on his way.
0:52:53 > 0:52:55I'm not so good, Leo.
0:52:55 > 0:52:58..he wanted to keep his underclothes,
0:52:58 > 0:53:00and he was shot.
0:53:00 > 0:53:02Camera four ready.
0:53:03 > 0:53:05Let's go close on Eichmann.
0:53:05 > 0:53:08No, no, not the witness - Eichmann.
0:53:08 > 0:53:10We were already facing the graves.
0:53:12 > 0:53:16I felt him take the child from my arms.
0:53:16 > 0:53:20The child cried out and was shot.
0:53:21 > 0:53:23Get close on his eyes.
0:53:23 > 0:53:26And then he aimed at me...
0:53:26 > 0:53:28How can you sit there and watch this?
0:53:28 > 0:53:33He held on to my hair and turned my head around...
0:53:33 > 0:53:35Do something.
0:53:37 > 0:53:38Get close on his eyes.
0:53:39 > 0:53:41Get close on his eyes.
0:53:42 > 0:53:45And he aimed the revolver at me.
0:53:45 > 0:53:47And ordered me to watch,
0:53:47 > 0:53:51and then turned my head around and shot at me.
0:53:51 > 0:53:54Then I fell.
0:53:54 > 0:54:01I tried to move and felt that I was alive and that I could rise.
0:54:03 > 0:54:05I heard the shot,
0:54:05 > 0:54:08and I was praying for another bullet
0:54:08 > 0:54:11to put an end to my suffering.
0:54:12 > 0:54:15But I felt that I was choking.
0:54:15 > 0:54:19Climbing towards the top of the grave above the bodies.
0:54:19 > 0:54:26I rose, and I felt bodies pulling at me with their hands,
0:54:26 > 0:54:29biting at my legs, pulling me down...
0:54:29 > 0:54:31How can you sit there day after day and listen to this?
0:54:31 > 0:54:39With my last strength, I came up on top of the grave.
0:54:39 > 0:54:40So many bodies.
0:54:40 > 0:54:42I wanted to see the end of the stretch of dead bodies...
0:54:42 > 0:54:45- YAAKOV COLLAPSES - ..but I could not.
0:54:49 > 0:54:50Yaakov?
0:54:53 > 0:54:55The, er...
0:54:55 > 0:54:59the camp I was in provided...
0:55:01 > 0:55:03..slave labour for a...
0:55:05 > 0:55:07..a Messerschmitt factory.
0:55:08 > 0:55:12How they expected us to work on the rations we got,
0:55:12 > 0:55:13I-I do not know.
0:55:17 > 0:55:19We were skeletons covered with skin, and, er...
0:55:21 > 0:55:25..with bruises from the beatings we were given
0:55:25 > 0:55:27for the slightest mistake.
0:55:31 > 0:55:34When I washed myself,
0:55:34 > 0:55:37I could not recognise my own body
0:55:37 > 0:55:39by touch.
0:55:42 > 0:55:45My ribs were like the keys of a piano.
0:55:46 > 0:55:50I-I don't think it's right to expect him to continue this work.
0:55:50 > 0:55:52No, it's important.
0:55:52 > 0:55:54I want to do it.
0:55:54 > 0:55:57But not at the expense of your health.
0:55:57 > 0:55:58For...
0:55:58 > 0:56:00for the first time, people who were there
0:56:00 > 0:56:04feel they have permission to speak. I...
0:56:05 > 0:56:10We see these witnesses in a place called the witness stand,
0:56:10 > 0:56:13and for the very first time
0:56:13 > 0:56:16they look into the audience
0:56:16 > 0:56:22and they see people leaning forward listening to what they have to say...
0:56:23 > 0:56:25..not turning away.
0:56:29 > 0:56:34Yaakov, in the control room we're all deeply affected
0:56:34 > 0:56:37by what we're hearing, and we're removed.
0:56:39 > 0:56:42You don't have to do this to yourself.
0:56:42 > 0:56:44I'm not going to let you do this to yourself.
0:56:44 > 0:56:46I feel I am letting you down.
0:56:46 > 0:56:49It is us who'd be letting you down.
0:56:58 > 0:56:59HE SOBS
0:57:06 > 0:57:12Mr Hausner showing the witness a suit of striped clothes.
0:57:12 > 0:57:15Is that what you used to wear there at Auschwitz?
0:57:18 > 0:57:19Yes.
0:57:19 > 0:57:26This is the garb of those who lived on the planet called Auschwitz.
0:57:27 > 0:57:33If I am able to stand here in this court before you
0:57:33 > 0:57:41and retell the tale of this planet,
0:57:41 > 0:57:46if I fall out of that planet,
0:57:46 > 0:57:52am able to be here at this time, then...
0:57:52 > 0:57:53Is he OK?
0:57:53 > 0:57:55..I believe, with perfect faith...
0:57:55 > 0:57:56He's a poet.
0:57:56 > 0:58:03..that this is due to the oath I have sworn to them there,
0:58:03 > 0:58:06the oath I have sworn to them.
0:58:06 > 0:58:09They gave me this strength.
0:58:09 > 0:58:12They gave me the strength.
0:58:14 > 0:58:15What's Eichmann doing?
0:58:24 > 0:58:26Could I, perhaps, Mr Dinur, put a few questions to you,
0:58:26 > 0:58:28if you will consent?
0:58:28 > 0:58:30Now, go close on Eichmann.
0:58:30 > 0:58:31Please, listen to Mr Hausner
0:58:31 > 0:58:32and to me... COLLAPSES TO FLOOR
0:58:38 > 0:58:39Did we get that?
0:58:39 > 0:58:42No, we were on Eichmann.
0:58:46 > 0:58:49THEY SHOUT IN OWN LANGUAGE
0:58:57 > 0:59:00President of court - I'll have to stop this session
0:59:00 > 0:59:01unless the witness recovers.
0:59:01 > 0:59:03Mr Hausner - I do not expect this, of course, to happen,
0:59:03 > 0:59:05and I think...
0:59:05 > 0:59:06Did you get it?
0:59:07 > 0:59:10We got almost everything, but I think we missed the collapse.
0:59:10 > 0:59:12You missed the collapse? Jesus, Leo.
0:59:12 > 0:59:14We might have got a couple of seconds of it,
0:59:14 > 0:59:16but it's impossible to anticipate something like that.
0:59:16 > 0:59:18I'd have put money on it.
0:59:18 > 0:59:19Fuck you, Alan. Get the fuck out.
0:59:19 > 0:59:20Hey.
0:59:23 > 0:59:25Gentlemen, would you give us five minutes, please?
0:59:25 > 0:59:27Thank you.
0:59:28 > 0:59:29Thank you.
0:59:32 > 0:59:33Will you shut the door, Millek?
0:59:36 > 0:59:38That was a stand-out moment, Leo.
0:59:38 > 0:59:41Like someone crying out in the auditorium.
0:59:41 > 0:59:43This is talking points, human drama.
0:59:43 > 0:59:46That's a real damaged life in there, not a fucking TV show.
0:59:46 > 0:59:49AND a fucking TV show! AND! And!
0:59:51 > 0:59:54I'm sorry if that doesn't sit with your artistic sensibility,
0:59:54 > 0:59:57but while we're here on Israel's dime that's exactly what it is.
0:59:57 > 0:59:59Christ - you're supposed to be filming the trial as a whole.
0:59:59 > 1:00:01But you're obsessed with Eichmann.
1:00:01 > 1:00:03And I can't understand why you're not.
1:00:03 > 1:00:04Don't patronise me.
1:00:04 > 1:00:08Your job, your fucking job, is to film what happens in that courtroom,
1:00:08 > 1:00:10not to conduct a personal investigation
1:00:10 > 1:00:11into the nature of evil.
1:00:11 > 1:00:12Why can't it be both?
1:00:12 > 1:00:14Because one gets in the way of the other.
1:00:14 > 1:00:17And that's not going to happen - not on my production.
1:00:17 > 1:00:18Well, I beg to differ.
1:00:18 > 1:00:20I don't give a fuck what you beg.
1:00:20 > 1:00:24I'm paying you wages, Mr Hurwitz. Differ in your own time.
1:00:28 > 1:00:29DOOR OPENS
1:00:30 > 1:00:31DOOR SLAMS
1:00:49 > 1:00:51In Paris, they were all deported
1:00:51 > 1:00:54in the second half of August and the beginning of September,
1:00:54 > 1:00:56in the space of about two weeks,
1:00:56 > 1:01:00in convoys consisting of 1,000 children and 500 adults
1:01:00 > 1:01:02taken from Drancy.
1:01:02 > 1:01:07I saw them. They arrived in four transports of 1,000 children.
1:01:07 > 1:01:13This live cargo would be taken off the trucks rapidly
1:01:13 > 1:01:15to make room for other buses.
1:01:18 > 1:01:22This was done swiftly, and the unhappy children,
1:01:22 > 1:01:24mixed up and scared,
1:01:24 > 1:01:27came down in groups quietly.
1:01:27 > 1:01:34There were small children of two, three or four years of age
1:01:34 > 1:01:37who did not know their names,
1:01:37 > 1:01:40and it was impossible to identify them.
1:01:42 > 1:01:44HITLER SHOUTS IN GERMAN
1:01:46 > 1:01:51We found girls carrying discs with boys' names
1:01:51 > 1:01:55and boys with girls' names on their discs.
1:01:56 > 1:01:58Let me just ask you this, Mr Wellers.
1:01:58 > 1:02:02In 1944, when you came to Auschwitz,
1:02:02 > 1:02:09did you then see any one of these children alive?
1:02:11 > 1:02:14No, I did not.
1:02:14 > 1:02:19There were four transports
1:02:19 > 1:02:23arriving every few days,
1:02:23 > 1:02:261,000 people in each transport -
1:02:26 > 1:02:311,000 children, 200 adults on each transport,
1:02:31 > 1:02:34and in all four transports 4,000 children.
1:02:37 > 1:02:41There were many who died during the summer of '42...
1:02:44 > 1:02:48I estimate the number of suicides about 100...
1:02:48 > 1:02:50- Want me to switch away? - Stay on Eichmann.
1:02:50 > 1:02:52- Leo...- Stay on him.
1:02:52 > 1:02:54Alan, switch to the witness.
1:02:54 > 1:02:56TESTIMONY CONTINUES
1:03:14 > 1:03:15Come on, do something.
1:03:17 > 1:03:19- KNOCK AT DOOR - Leo.
1:03:19 > 1:03:21DOOR OPENS
1:03:21 > 1:03:23Leo, there's some people to see you.
1:03:23 > 1:03:26I'm not expecting anyone. Tell them I'm busy.
1:03:26 > 1:03:28Well, they want to see you.
1:03:28 > 1:03:29Just tell them I'm busy.
1:03:29 > 1:03:32- They said you'd say that. - Leo, would you just go?
1:03:32 > 1:03:33I got this.
1:03:55 > 1:03:56We wanted to surprise you.
1:04:01 > 1:04:03Right.
1:04:03 > 1:04:04Right, how was your journey?
1:04:04 > 1:04:06Good.
1:04:06 > 1:04:07Did you enjoy flying?
1:04:07 > 1:04:09Sure.
1:04:11 > 1:04:12What?
1:04:12 > 1:04:14You look old.
1:04:16 > 1:04:17I AM old.
1:04:19 > 1:04:23We were working there with those... Rollenwagen,
1:04:23 > 1:04:24which we were driving.
1:04:24 > 1:04:27You entered the crematorium?
1:04:27 > 1:04:30Yes, I entered the crematorium.
1:04:30 > 1:04:34We had to go there in order to take the wood, which was...
1:04:34 > 1:04:35To the witness.
1:04:35 > 1:04:36..to be used for the burning.
1:04:36 > 1:04:37Take one.
1:04:37 > 1:04:39We had to take...
1:04:39 > 1:04:42Number four, stand by.
1:04:42 > 1:04:44..some of the wood to the camps from the crematorium,
1:04:44 > 1:04:48when there was still time and when it was very cold.
1:04:48 > 1:04:51The kapo of the Sonderkommando took pity on us
1:04:51 > 1:04:56and said, "Children, it's very cold outside,
1:04:56 > 1:05:01"perhaps you can warm yourselves in the gas chambers."
1:05:04 > 1:05:06The gas chambers were not operating then.
1:05:06 > 1:05:11And you would go into the crematorium to warm yourselves?
1:05:11 > 1:05:12- So sometimes...- Tommy?
1:05:12 > 1:05:14- ..we would go to the side camp... - I'm fine.
1:05:14 > 1:05:16..or even to the gas chambers
1:05:16 > 1:05:18- where it was much warmer... - Is this all true?
1:05:18 > 1:05:20- Mm-hm. - Sometimes it would happen that,
1:05:20 > 1:05:22when we arrived at the crematorium...
1:05:22 > 1:05:23He was the same age as you.
1:05:23 > 1:05:27..they said, "You can't possibly go in because there are people inside."
1:05:27 > 1:05:29And Eichmann just sits.
1:05:29 > 1:05:31..in August 1943.
1:05:32 > 1:05:34And Eichmann just sits.
1:05:37 > 1:05:39Camera two, stand by.
1:05:39 > 1:05:43Did you use ashes of human beings
1:05:43 > 1:05:45to spread it on the roads?
1:05:45 > 1:05:47- Yes.- What for?
1:05:49 > 1:05:52So that people could walk on the road and not slide.
1:05:52 > 1:05:54So they do not slip...
1:05:55 > 1:05:56..in the camp?
1:05:56 > 1:05:58Yes, in the camp.
1:05:58 > 1:06:01SOMBRE ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
1:06:06 > 1:06:07LIGHTER CLICKS
1:06:27 > 1:06:29BIRDSONG
1:06:48 > 1:06:52What I want is that single spotlight directly on Eichmann
1:06:52 > 1:06:54as he's watching the camp footage.
1:06:54 > 1:06:57The rest of the auditorium is completely dark.
1:06:57 > 1:06:59That allows the audience to observe Eichmann
1:06:59 > 1:07:01as he reacts to what he's watching.
1:07:01 > 1:07:02The audience or you?
1:07:02 > 1:07:03Leo?
1:07:03 > 1:07:05Bringing him face to face with the visual consequences
1:07:05 > 1:07:08of his actions will finally make him crack.
1:07:08 > 1:07:09- It has to.- Leo?
1:07:09 > 1:07:13Eichmann attended mass shootings for the SS elite.
1:07:13 > 1:07:16To show that you could stomach the most brutal bloodshed
1:07:16 > 1:07:18was a badge of ideological superiority.
1:07:18 > 1:07:21How likely is it he's going to show weakness now,
1:07:21 > 1:07:22before his Jewish captors?!
1:07:22 > 1:07:24Sitting alone in that chair,
1:07:24 > 1:07:26watching the worst atrocities known to mankind,
1:07:26 > 1:07:29it will be impossible for him to deny his participation.
1:07:32 > 1:07:33Leo?
1:07:35 > 1:07:37- Leo!- What?
1:07:38 > 1:07:40I'm taking Tommy to Greece.
1:07:41 > 1:07:43- Why?- I don't want him here.
1:07:44 > 1:07:46Don't you think he should see this?
1:07:46 > 1:07:48I don't want him watching this
1:07:48 > 1:07:50eight hours a day, day in, day out
1:07:50 > 1:07:52for God knows how much longer.
1:07:52 > 1:07:56Which is what he'll do, because that's what you're doing.
1:07:56 > 1:07:58Am I doing the right thing?
1:08:00 > 1:08:02Do you think I'll get him?
1:08:12 > 1:08:13- Look after him, won't you?- Mm-hm.
1:08:19 > 1:08:22MUSIC: Runaway by Del Shannon
1:08:26 > 1:08:28# As I walk along
1:08:28 > 1:08:29# I wonder what went wrong... #
1:08:29 > 1:08:32I want to be honest with you, Leo.
1:08:32 > 1:08:34I'm under instruction from Milton
1:08:34 > 1:08:36- to not talk about Eichmann on this trip.- Aha.
1:08:36 > 1:08:38It's to give you a rest from the trial.
1:08:38 > 1:08:39Yeah, I understand.
1:08:39 > 1:08:42To give you a rest from Eichmann.
1:08:42 > 1:08:43I understand.
1:08:45 > 1:08:47What are you thinking?
1:08:47 > 1:08:48About Eichmann.
1:08:50 > 1:08:52# ..I'm a-walking in the rain,
1:08:52 > 1:08:55# Tears are falliin' and I feel a pain
1:08:55 > 1:08:59- # Wishing you were here by me... # - Where did these people come from?
1:08:59 > 1:09:00Wherever they want to.
1:09:00 > 1:09:03The Bedouin do not perceive borders or governments.
1:09:03 > 1:09:06They side with no-one, threaten no-one...
1:09:07 > 1:09:09..and they're left alone to roam freely.
1:09:10 > 1:09:11Where do I sign up?
1:09:15 > 1:09:18When you watch him, Millek, what do you think of him?
1:09:20 > 1:09:22A dog refusing to betray his master.
1:09:24 > 1:09:26Till people see him react...
1:09:27 > 1:09:30..the way they do to this testimony,
1:09:30 > 1:09:32they'll not truly understand that men,
1:09:32 > 1:09:35not monsters, create fascists.
1:09:37 > 1:09:38Why must people see this?
1:09:38 > 1:09:41So that they understand that we're all capable of it and...
1:09:43 > 1:09:45..to resist the temptation.
1:09:45 > 1:09:48Well, if the witness testimony does not make Eichmann crack,
1:09:48 > 1:09:49perhaps he never will.
1:09:49 > 1:09:51When the prosecution makes him sit...
1:09:52 > 1:09:54..and watch the film from...
1:09:56 > 1:09:57..Auschwitz-Birkenau,
1:09:57 > 1:09:59Belsen,
1:09:59 > 1:10:03the actual documentary footage of the atrocities -
1:10:03 > 1:10:06the shootings, the gassing, the mass murder -
1:10:06 > 1:10:09it'll just be impossible for him to subvert his subconscious.
1:10:12 > 1:10:15This is the unique power of film, is it not?
1:10:15 > 1:10:16This is what you believe.
1:10:16 > 1:10:17This is what I have learned...
1:10:19 > 1:10:20..in my years as a film-maker.
1:10:23 > 1:10:25While he watches...
1:10:26 > 1:10:28..we'll be watching him.
1:10:30 > 1:10:32Only then will we see the real Eichmann.
1:10:32 > 1:10:34SEABIRDS CRY
1:10:34 > 1:10:39MUSIC: Symphony No.3 Opus 36 Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs by Henryk Gorecki
1:10:46 > 1:10:54WOMAN SINGS IN POLISH: # O Mamo... #
1:11:04 > 1:11:07CAMERA WHIRS
1:11:08 > 1:11:09Close on Eichmann.
1:11:09 > 1:11:17# ..Mamo
1:11:19 > 1:11:24# Mamo
1:11:24 > 1:11:30# Nie placz
1:11:43 > 1:11:47# O Mamo
1:11:47 > 1:11:56# Nie placz nie... #
1:11:56 > 1:11:58Was that a smile?
1:12:00 > 1:12:02I don't think so.
1:12:02 > 1:12:03CAMERA WHIRS
1:12:17 > 1:12:28# ..Niebios Przeczysta Krolowo... #
1:12:28 > 1:12:31I'm... I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave the room.
1:12:36 > 1:12:40If anyone else has to step outside, there's no permission required.
1:12:42 > 1:12:48# ..Ty zawsze
1:12:48 > 1:12:55# Wspieraj mnie... #
1:12:55 > 1:12:57I'm going to go.
1:13:02 > 1:13:09# ..Ty zawsze
1:13:09 > 1:13:13# Wspieraj mnie
1:13:16 > 1:13:22# Ty zawsze
1:13:22 > 1:13:31# Wspieraj mnie... #
1:13:31 > 1:13:33How can you just sit there?
1:13:37 > 1:13:38How can you not turn away?
1:13:39 > 1:13:41Not even flinch?
1:13:43 > 1:13:44Where are you?
1:13:46 > 1:13:48Where the fuck are you?!
1:14:02 > 1:14:08# ..Ty zawsze
1:14:08 > 1:14:19# Wspieraj mnie. #
1:14:22 > 1:14:24MUSIC FADES
1:14:29 > 1:14:32They've got a problem with the cable to the press room.
1:14:34 > 1:14:35What's up?
1:14:38 > 1:14:40I'm thinking of leaving.
1:14:42 > 1:14:45- Er, you go ahead.- OK.
1:14:45 > 1:14:46What are you talking about?
1:14:46 > 1:14:48I'm thinking of leaving.
1:14:48 > 1:14:50Hausner is about to start his cross-examination.
1:14:50 > 1:14:52It doesn't matter, Hausner won't crack him.
1:14:52 > 1:14:54Then film Eichmann not cracking.
1:14:54 > 1:14:56You could do that. Or Millek.
1:14:56 > 1:14:59No, this is a Milton Fruchtman production, directed by Leo Hurwitz.
1:14:59 > 1:15:01This is a Capital Cities production.
1:15:01 > 1:15:04Without me, they wouldn't be within a million miles of this trial.
1:15:04 > 1:15:07Without you, they'd not have a tenth of the audience that they do.
1:15:07 > 1:15:10You don't want to finish what you've started?!
1:15:10 > 1:15:12What? You think you've failed, is that it?
1:15:12 > 1:15:13Yes.
1:15:13 > 1:15:16By my standards, I think I've failed.
1:15:16 > 1:15:19Why? Because YOU couldn't locate the humanity in Adolf Eichmann?!
1:15:19 > 1:15:22Jesus, Leo, what if it's not there?
1:15:22 > 1:15:25What if you couldn't find it because he doesn't have it?
1:15:25 > 1:15:27I'm sorry, I just can't believe that.
1:15:27 > 1:15:28That's too bad.
1:15:28 > 1:15:31If Eichmann wants to world to think that he was a small cog
1:15:31 > 1:15:32in a vast machine of death, let him.
1:15:32 > 1:15:34- Milton?- In trying to prove that,
1:15:34 > 1:15:36he will allow Hausner to dissect and expose
1:15:36 > 1:15:41that machine and its legacy, and WE will have it ALL on record.
1:15:45 > 1:15:48I really thought that we would find him today.
1:15:48 > 1:15:50I really thought that, if nothing else,
1:15:50 > 1:15:52we'd see a chink in his armour,
1:15:52 > 1:15:55we'd see the slightest hint of humanity in the man.
1:15:55 > 1:15:57Leo, it doesn't matter.
1:15:57 > 1:16:00Because from this point until...for ever,
1:16:00 > 1:16:01whenever anyone tries to deny
1:16:01 > 1:16:04what happened to the Jews of Europe under the Nazis,
1:16:04 > 1:16:08they can be sat down and invited to watch Obersturmbannfuhrer Eichmann
1:16:08 > 1:16:11describe in minute detail how it was done.
1:16:11 > 1:16:16Now, that is NOT nothing. In fact, that is...quite something.
1:16:18 > 1:16:21Think about it. You're staying, Leo.
1:16:22 > 1:16:24Walk with me.
1:16:31 > 1:16:33Where are we going?
1:16:33 > 1:16:35We're laying the cable past Eichmann's cell.
1:16:36 > 1:16:37They allowed that?
1:16:37 > 1:16:39They had to, or no show.
1:16:45 > 1:16:48There. OK.
1:16:48 > 1:16:50- Thank you.- Thank you.
1:16:56 > 1:16:58Mr Fruchtman?
1:16:58 > 1:17:00Oh, give me a second.
1:17:01 > 1:17:03- Er, Milton?- Mm?
1:17:07 > 1:17:09I never got the chance to thank for you
1:17:09 > 1:17:10for going out on a limb and hiring me.
1:17:12 > 1:17:13You don't have to do that.
1:17:15 > 1:17:17Nevertheless I'm glad you did.
1:17:17 > 1:17:18Me too, Leo.
1:17:19 > 1:17:20Yeah, me too.
1:17:29 > 1:17:31- Shall we?- Mm-hm.
1:17:32 > 1:17:35OK, what's the problem? We have to get this cable issue fixed
1:17:35 > 1:17:37in time for tomorrow's session.
1:17:37 > 1:17:39Give me two minutes, Leo.
1:17:39 > 1:17:41Well, our current route is just too long.
1:17:41 > 1:17:44We have to find a shorter route...
1:18:05 > 1:18:06GUARD: Move on.
1:18:36 > 1:18:37APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS
1:18:47 > 1:18:49It was good.
1:18:52 > 1:18:53Thank you.
1:18:57 > 1:19:00We listened all day, on the radio.
1:19:05 > 1:19:08When we first arrived, Mr Horowitz...
1:19:08 > 1:19:09Hurwitz.
1:19:10 > 1:19:14..we did not speak about what had happened.
1:19:14 > 1:19:18But people ask us, "Who are you? What happened to you?"
1:19:18 > 1:19:19And so we told.
1:19:21 > 1:19:24And they say, "It cannot be true.
1:19:24 > 1:19:28"You invent this. Such things are not possible."
1:19:33 > 1:19:37I say, "If I could make up such things I would be in Hollywood...
1:19:38 > 1:19:41"..not running a cheap hotel in Jerusalem."
1:19:43 > 1:19:48But they do not believe, and so we stop speaking about what happened...
1:19:49 > 1:19:51..except to whisper it in our sleep.
1:19:54 > 1:19:59Since the trial begins, I see them listen now.
1:20:01 > 1:20:05On bus, in shops, in cafeteria, they listen.
1:20:05 > 1:20:10I go to market this morning and a young girl asked me about my number.
1:20:10 > 1:20:12And they watch, yes?
1:20:12 > 1:20:14All over the world.
1:20:18 > 1:20:19So I'm told.
1:20:21 > 1:20:22Because of you.
1:20:23 > 1:20:25Well, no, I...
1:20:25 > 1:20:26Because of you.
1:20:28 > 1:20:30Because of YOU.
1:20:38 > 1:20:39SHE SIGHS
1:20:53 > 1:20:56Mrs Landau, I can't. Really.
1:20:58 > 1:21:00Please.
1:21:00 > 1:21:01Thank you.
1:21:14 > 1:21:15Mmm...
1:21:22 > 1:21:25BELL TOLLS
1:21:34 > 1:21:35Good morning for it.
1:21:37 > 1:21:39Finally Hausner gets to go toe-to-toe with him.
1:21:44 > 1:21:46Eichmann cross-examined by a Jew in the heart of the Jewish state.
1:21:48 > 1:21:49It is a great day.
1:21:50 > 1:21:53Now, we need to be at our very best today, gentlemen.
1:21:56 > 1:21:59HAUSNER IN TRANSLATION: I'm going to read what you said. Listen to this.
1:22:01 > 1:22:02Camera three stand by.
1:22:02 > 1:22:04"And this is how it was with the Jews..."
1:22:05 > 1:22:07Take three, close up on Hausner.
1:22:07 > 1:22:09"..who were like a newborn baby, unprepared.
1:22:09 > 1:22:13"I received the order to take action against the 'guests'.
1:22:13 > 1:22:14"I thought about the question
1:22:14 > 1:22:16"and when I saw it was absolutely necessary,
1:22:16 > 1:22:18"I carried out the orders
1:22:18 > 1:22:21"with the fanaticism one expects from someone
1:22:21 > 1:22:23"who has long been a National Socialist,
1:22:23 > 1:22:26"and also one who has been assigned to do this job."
1:22:26 > 1:22:27Did you say that?
1:22:27 > 1:22:30- EICHMANN IN TRANSLATION: - I said, "I didn't know."
1:22:30 > 1:22:31Did you say that? Yes or no?
1:22:31 > 1:22:33I don't know.
1:22:33 > 1:22:36Maybe I'd been drinking. Maybe I didn't say it.
1:22:36 > 1:22:38Maybe it was added afterwards.
1:22:38 > 1:22:39Maybe you're full of shit.
1:22:41 > 1:22:42Camera one, stand by.
1:22:44 > 1:22:46Take one.
1:22:48 > 1:22:52Yes, because I consider oath-breaking to be
1:22:52 > 1:22:56the worst possible crime and offence a person can be guilty of.
1:22:56 > 1:22:59A greater crime than the murder of six million people,
1:22:59 > 1:23:01including one-and-a-half million children?!
1:23:01 > 1:23:05No, of course not. But I had nothing to do with that.
1:23:05 > 1:23:08I did not deal with the extermination.
1:23:08 > 1:23:10In your eyes, was someone who was involved with
1:23:10 > 1:23:13the extermination of the Jews a criminal?
1:23:13 > 1:23:15Such a person was an unhappy man.
1:23:15 > 1:23:19- Stand by on two.- Was he a criminal? Yes or no?- Close on Hausner.
1:23:19 > 1:23:21I would not venture to answer this question,
1:23:21 > 1:23:25as I was never put or placed in such a situation.
1:23:25 > 1:23:26You saw Hoess doing this in Auschwitz.
1:23:26 > 1:23:29- At that time, did you consider him to be a criminal?- Take one.
1:23:29 > 1:23:33- A murderer?- I told him that what he was ordered to do, I could never do.
1:23:33 > 1:23:35But that is not my question.
1:23:35 > 1:23:38My question is whether at heart you saw him as a murderer?
1:23:38 > 1:23:41If he answers yes, he'll incriminate himself.
1:23:41 > 1:23:42I have not answered this before,
1:23:42 > 1:23:45I have no intention of answering today.
1:23:45 > 1:23:49Because what my inner life tells me is something I carry with me.
1:23:49 > 1:23:51Whatever else he might be, this is not a stupid man.
1:23:51 > 1:23:53Ready camera two.
1:23:53 > 1:23:56How did you regard Hoess when you saw him as a murderer of Jews?
1:23:56 > 1:23:59How did you regard him, as a criminal or not?
1:23:59 > 1:24:00Answer.
1:24:00 > 1:24:02I pitied him and felt sorry for him.
1:24:02 > 1:24:06Did you regard him as a criminal or not?
1:24:06 > 1:24:07Yes or no, it's a simple question.
1:24:07 > 1:24:10I shall not reveal my innermost feelings.
1:24:10 > 1:24:14In other words, Hoess was not a criminal in your eyes.
1:24:23 > 1:24:26I did not say you ordered the foot march.
1:24:26 > 1:24:28I know the Chief of the Security Police ordered it
1:24:28 > 1:24:30but I say you initiated it.
1:24:35 > 1:24:37No, that was hardly possible,
1:24:37 > 1:24:40because when the foot march took place I was in Berlin.
1:24:40 > 1:24:43All right, all right. No is quite good enough.
1:24:46 > 1:24:49Now look at page 62 of your statement.
1:24:51 > 1:24:53Go ahead and read it out loud.
1:24:53 > 1:24:56"In order, so to speak, to show my iron fist
1:24:56 > 1:25:00"to the allies and also to tell them at the same time it is not going
1:25:00 > 1:25:04"to change anything. Even if you destroy the lines of communication
1:25:04 > 1:25:08"to the Reich and bomb them to pieces, we will still march.
1:25:08 > 1:25:13"I have 10,000 Jews from some eastern provinces or other.
1:25:13 > 1:25:16"In accordance with my proposal, and since I was no longer able to run
1:25:16 > 1:25:19"a transport by rail from there, I had them march
1:25:19 > 1:25:23"from Budapest to the lower Austrian border in a foot march.
1:25:23 > 1:25:26"I had the order from the Chief of the Security Police
1:25:26 > 1:25:29"and the Security Service to this effect.
1:25:29 > 1:25:33"It is true that I could never have issued such an order myself.
1:25:33 > 1:25:35"I did propose this."
1:25:37 > 1:25:39You did propose this, correct?
1:25:41 > 1:25:42Hold on Eichmann.
1:25:42 > 1:25:45I admit that much, yes.
1:25:51 > 1:25:53Hausner's got him.
1:25:53 > 1:25:55He's lost.
1:25:56 > 1:25:57He's lost.
1:25:57 > 1:25:59Well done, everybody.
1:25:59 > 1:26:01- Well done.- Congratulations.
1:26:03 > 1:26:05Great job.
1:26:05 > 1:26:07BACKGROUND CHATTER
1:26:21 > 1:26:23- NEWSREEL:- In the courtroom at Jerusalem,
1:26:23 > 1:26:26nearly four months have passed since the jurors retired...
1:26:26 > 1:26:30Even if the defendant did act out of blind obedience,
1:26:30 > 1:26:34a man who took part in crimes of such magnitude for years
1:26:34 > 1:26:37should endure the greatest punishment known to law.
1:26:38 > 1:26:42This court sentences Adolf Eichmann to death.
1:27:52 > 1:27:53We did it.
1:28:02 > 1:28:05For each of us who has ever felt that
1:28:05 > 1:28:08God created us better than any other human being,
1:28:08 > 1:28:11has stood on the threshold where Eichmann once stood.
1:28:12 > 1:28:16And each of us who has allowed the shape of another person's nose,
1:28:16 > 1:28:18or the colour of their skin,
1:28:18 > 1:28:21or the manner in wish they worship their god
1:28:21 > 1:28:24to poison our feelings towards them
1:28:24 > 1:28:28have known the loss of reason that led Eichmann to his madness.
1:28:28 > 1:28:32Well, this was how it all began with those who did these things.