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