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Witness History, Witness History, The Eichmann trial

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The Eichmann trial


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19 April 2021

10 minutes

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In April 1961, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi official in charge of concentration camps, was put on trial in Israel.The trial helped reveal the full details of the holocaust in which millions of European jews were killed during World War Two. One of the prosecutors, Gabriel Bach, spoke to Lucy Williamson for Witness History.

This programme is a rebroadcast.

PHOTO: Eichmann in the dock. (AFP/Getty Images)

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