The prosecutor of Adolf Eichmann said here today that while he favored study and investigation of a mass psychosis that could pervert a whole people, he opposed treating individual war criminals as anything but the murderers that they were.
Gideon Hausner, who, as Attorney General of Israel, prosecuted Eichmann, came to London in connection with the publication here of his book on the Eichmann case. He criticized the conduct of war crimes trials in Austria asserting that it might have been better if they had not taken place. He was especially critical of the treatment given witnesses in war crimes cases in Austrian courts, asserting that often they were treated as though they had been the criminals.
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