Eichmann on the Air: Radio and the Making of a Historic Trial

“congratulated Israel on <strong>Eichmann</strong>'s capture,” recalling the
frequent mention of his name at the Nuremberg trials. Next is Lord
Russell of Liverpool, author of The Scourge of the Swastika and
former Deputy Judge Advocate General in Germany, whose war-
crime unit had caught many Nazi officials but failed to trace
<strong>Eichmann</strong>’s whereabouts after the war.
The special program ends with a commentary by a senior
Kol Yisrael correspondent dedicated to those who took part in
bringing <strong>Eichmann</strong> to trial in Israel: “the nation’s gratitude is given
to the men who, due to understandable reasons, must remain in
their gray anonymity even in their greatest moments.” The senior
correspondent reports that in an off-the-record meeting between
newspaper editors and security officers (what was called the
“editors’ committee,” a common practice in those days for
meetings where government officials would give background
information to members of the press) one editor said that the
achievement of those people would be remembered for a hundred
years. “If we have one reservation to that statement,” adds the
correspondent, “it would have to do with the number: what was
achieved by the Security Service’s officers will undoubtedly be
remembered in Jewish history as long as it will be written.” The
circumstances demanded that these individuals deal with this man
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