An Israeli lawyer whose father prosecuted Adolf Eichmann nearly four decades ago said he will oppose releasing the memoirs Eichmann wrote while in an Israeli jail. It would be dangerous to publish a war criminal’s lies, Amos Hausner said Sunday. In Germany, Eichmann’s son Dieter said he had instructed lawyers to demand that his father’s 1,300 pages of handwritten notes be turned over to the family.
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