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given His life. Immediately a miracle happened in my own heart. The Holy Spirit changed my
attitude from one of horror and repulsion to one of pity and compassion.
Until I came home I had not read the book written by Rev. Hull, The Struggle For a Soul.
Rev. Hull was appointed by Israel to be the chaplain for this man. Many thought Eichmann was a
Jew. He did speak Yiddish since he had many contacts with the Jews, but he was a Protestant.
After dealing with him, Rev. Hull felt he was more given over to Satan than any human being he
had ever seen and that it would have taken an extra dispensation of grace to save his soul!
I watched Eichmann as he sat down at his desk. From the balcony I could see his hands,
folded on his knees under the desk. By his facial expression it was plain that he wanted to impress
the audience that he was calm and collected. But I could see his fingers working, restlessly moving
and twitching, as though he were trying to wash his hands. It reminded me of another who tried to
wash his hands of the blood of an innocent Man.
I was at the trial on Wednesday when he pled his own defense to all fifteen charges against
him. He said, "Ich bien nicht shulting [I am not guilty]. If you hang me, you will hang me for being a
good soldier and not for having murdered two million people." Then he repeated what he had said
when he was captured, "I do not hate the Jews. I am just opposed to them politically."
All the time he was not speaking he was writing his memoirs.
I was there on Friday when they sentenced Eichmann. They first placed him in the cage
where he stood. Then we were all asked to stand while the judges and lawyers came in. As the
sentence was pronounced that he should hang by his neck till dead, I saw him flinch. I thought he
was going to faint. The guards caught him and he quickly regained his composure. Then he was led
out of the room.
Israel has never given the sentence of death to any man but to Eichmann. He received it,
because his was the crime of genocide -- the eradication of a race of people from off the face of
the earth. Upon his shoulders was laid the guilt of introducing a system for quickly getting rid of
the Jewish people in Germany.
As Chaplain Hull and Eichmann walked together to the gallows, Eichmann still refused to
repent. The noose was put around his neck. Eichmann's last words were, "Heil Hitler! Long live
Germany!" While Rev. Hull softly prayed, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus," the trap door under Eichmann's
feet was sprung and he plunged into eternity and hell.
Because he killed two million Jews? No, but because he rejected the Lord Jesus Christ as
his Saviour. Some may say, "Maybe he did not have the opportunity to accept Christ." Yes, he did.
"How do you know this?" some have asked. I know. I met a woman who lived in the same city in
which he lived, who knew his wife well. She said, "I was at Eichmann's home one day, attending a
cottage prayer meeting, when he came home from war unexpectedly. He drove all us women out.
He beat his wife, took her Bible and threw it in the fire, and shook his fist in God's face."