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biographical history: Emil Knebel was a cinematographer known for Andante (2010), Adam (1973), and Wild Is My Love (1963). He was one of the cameramen who recorded daily coverage of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem (produced by Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp and later held academic positions in Israel and New York teaching filmmaking at universities. Refer to CV in file.
date: 1961 July 07
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note: See official transcripts, published in"The Trial of Adolf Eichman", Vol. I-V, State of Israel, Ministry of Justice, Jerusalem, 1994. Also available online at the Nizkor Project.
scope and content: Camera fades in and zooms out on empty booth. People are heard talking in the background. Hausner is seen in the FG. Adolf Eichmann enters (00:01:35) carrying documents and sits placing headphones on the table and arranging the documents. MS, the prosecution desk (00:02:19) with Attorney General Gideon Hausner and Assistant State Attorneys Ya'akov Bar-Or, and Gabriel Bach seated examining documents. The camera zooms in on Eichmann. There is an overhead shot from the rear of the courtroom of the defense table with Servatius seated (00:04:24). All rise as the judges enter (00:06:42). Judge Moshe Landau opens the session (00:07:19). Judge Landau, speaking, cannot be heard but the English translation is given. The audio clears and all dialogue can be heard. Servatius asks to begin with questions pertaining to the depositions from testimony taken abroad which was reviewed in Sessions 85 and 86. The first testimony concerns Kurt Becher, an SS- Obersturmbannfuhrer, later SS-Standartenfuhrer and Special Reich Commissioner for all Concentration Camps, who was assigned work in Hungary and dealt with arranging the"Kasztner Transport" the attempt made by the Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest to bring a train of Hungarian Jews safely to Switzerland. Servatius notes that Becher had stated that he had nothing to do with the seizure of Jewish property. There is some difficulty with this document because it was not submitted to the prosecution until the morning of the session. Footage cuts (00:14:03 to 00:14:15). A small portion of the preceding footage is repeated and the film continues without interruption. Servatius presents documents concerning the promotion of Christian Wirth, the SS major and head of the concentration camp organization in Poland and the first to implement the gassing of mental patients. There is some confusion regarding the wording in this document (00:18:34). Footage continues with Servatius noting the submission of a document during Hermann Krumey's in…
title: Eichmann Trial -- Session 88 -- Cross examination of the Accused