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

solution" and now ends with a process of historic justice: "There is
something that is a matter of emotion more than reason... as if an
immense power brings all the participants in the game —without
their knowledge, in spite of their knowledge—to this result." "Only
the historian, decades later", concludes Ginossar "may evaluate
what people are trying to reflect on today".
Commenting on the street interviews, Moshe Prager, another
historian of the Holocaust, puts the blame for the lack of
knowledge on the part of educators, researchers, writers and
journalists. “We have yet to give the public the right key, so people
would not only see the depression, suffocation and suffering but
rather the historical meaning of the Holocaust, the drama of the
clash between Nazism and Judaism.” His expectation is that the
trial wound not only be concerned with “how many were killed and
how they were killed, but also raise the question of why were the
Jews exterminated, that Nazism went after Judaism because for
them it embodied morality."
Anchor Almog suggests that the younger generation lacks
the recognition that “the war against Judaism was not due to its
weakness but rather because it expressed some kind of force that
Nazism wanted to reject and annual.” The failure to learn this
lesson is yet again, according to Prager, the fault of educators.
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