Adolf Eichmann admitted here today, under continued, grueling cross-examination, that he knew early in the Hitler era that the Nazis’ “final solution” of the Jewish problem meant mass murder. He also ...

Eichmann was in charge of organizing the “Final Solution” to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust, and was hanged in Israel on June 1, 1962, after being convicted of committing crimes against humanity.

Eichmann was hanged at midnight on June 1, 1962; he was the only person in Israel’s history to be executed by the state.

This rebroadcast originally aired on July 15, 2022. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, was tried in Israel. Writer Hannah Arendt attended ...

With “June Zero” writer-director Jake Paltrow unearths fascinating — and true — behind-the-scenes drama as Israel prepared to hang Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1962. The notorious architect of ...

“The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes” first aired in Israel last summer. (JTA) — Americans subscribed to Amazon Prime Video can now listen to never-before-heard recordings of Adolf ...

Through May 4, the portrayal of the 1961 hearing offers a captivating glimpse at the human psyche, along with a history of ...

RAMLE, ISRAEL: (FILE PHOTO) Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann in his prison cell April 15, 1961 in Ramle, central Israel. The Israeli police donated Eichmann's original handprints, fingerprints and ...