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Preliminary Hearings in Eichmann Case to Get Under Way This Week

February 21, 1961
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The full, formal charge sheet against Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi war criminal who directed the mass killing of 6, 000, 000 Jews in Europe during World War II, will be submitted by the State Prosecutor to a special court this week. A statement giving the details of the charges against Eichmar has already been issued by Attorney General Gideon Hausner.

Trial sessions, which are due to get underway in mid-April, will be held five days a week, from Monday through Friday. Israeli courts, which normally hold sessions every day but Saturday, do not meet on Sundays in cases involving Christians.

The Cabinet yesterday referred to the Ministries of Labor and Posts the problem of the operation on the Sabbath of communications facilities to be maintained in the court building for the hundreds of foreign correspondents who will cover the Eichmann trial. Justice Minister Pinhas Rosen, who raised the question before the Cabinet, said that the correspondents presumably would require the use of the facilities on the Sabbath to file background stories.

It was learned, meanwhile, that two-thirds of the 400 foreign press representatives expected here for the trial, have indicated that they will stay for the first week or ten days only and may return here later for the judgment.

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