us-005578-irn1001833
scope and content: The camera fades in onto Eichmann's empty booth, zooms out, and pans down across the attorney tables to show Hausner standing in the foreground. Eichmann enters the booth (00:01:55) escorted by guards. Servatius enters the frame as Eichmann arranges the set of documents on his desk (00:02:05). There are various shots of the courtroom, Eichmann, and the attorneys. Eichmann can be seen talking to the guard seated on his left (00:05:49). All rise as judges Halevi, Landau, and Raveh enter the courtroom (00:07:30). Judge Landau opens the 98th session of the trial (00:08:29). Hausner continues the cross examination of the accused (00:09:17) with questions concerning the location of his Berlin office in 1939 and whether his jurisdiction extended to the Eastern Territories when he was made section head of department IVD4 which would later be renamed department IVB4 (00:12:38). Eichmann is asked what his qualifications were in the field of evacuations if he had up until then been dealing in emigration (00:16:04). The accused testifies that his experience in Vienna, working in technical transportation matters for years, was the reason he was reassigned (00:16:21). Judge Landau asks Eichmann what the term"Eastern Territorie" refers to (00:18:25) and Eichmann states that it consisted of all the Eastern provinces incorporated into the Reich with the exception of the General Government. Hausner continues the cross examination by asking Eichmann about his involvement in carrying out evacuations in the General Government, in particular the Zamosc district (00:21:10), and if the Center for Migration offices were under his control (00:23:46). Eichmann denies having control over the Center for Migration (00:23:59). Hausner continues, inquiring about the location of migration department branch offices in Posen, Łódź, and Gdansk (00:26:03), the accused's involvement in sending guidelines and instructions to these offices (00:27:11), and a series of questions on the number of people in t…
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date: 1961 July 17
title: Eichmann Trial -- Session 98 -- Cross-examination of the Accused
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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.
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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.