The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann will open on April 11, it was officially announced today. The opening of the trial had been set originally for March 9 but it was postponed at the request of Dr. Robert Servatius, Eichmann’s West German defense lawyer.
The new date was set by Justice Binyamin Halevi, president of the Jerusalem District Court, after a meeting with Dieter Wechtenbruch, Dr. Servatius’ West German assistant, and Attorney General Gideon Hausner.
The three-man court which will try the Gestapo Colonel charged with directing the extermination of 6, 000, 000 European Jews will be presided over by Supreme Court Justice Moshe Landau. The other members will be Judge Hale and Hudge Yitzhak Ravel of the Tel Aviv District Court. All three judges were born in Germany and immigrated to Palestine during the period of the British Mandate.
(A-television film on Eichmann, “On the Henchman’s Trail, ” will be shown on the nation-wide German Television network March 13, the Cologne Broadcasting station announced today. The film will attempt to present a “profile” of the Gestapo colonel through documents and interviews with surviving eye-witnesses. A book entitled “There Were Many Eichmanns” was published in Munich this weekend.)
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