Adolf Eichmann, the former Gestapo specialist in the annihilation of Jews, whose fate is now being weighed by the Jerusalem District Court which heard the charges against him in a four-month-long trial, refuses to testify about the activities of other, accused ex-war criminals.
Yaacov Siegelman, a Haifa magistrate who had gone to the prison at the request of the West German and Austrian governments, reported that the prisoner said he was instructed by his attorney, Dr. Robert Servatius, not to answer any questions now. The magistrate wanted Eichmann to answer questions about the activities of 27 former Nazis now on trial for their wartime activities in Germany and Austria.
The three-judge court which heard the charges against Eichmann, accused of crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity, is not expected to render its verdict until November.
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