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“As
I stand here before you, Judges of Israel, to lead the prosecution of
Adolf Eichmann, I do not stand alone. With me, in this place and at
this hour, stand six million accusers. But they cannot rise to their
feet and point an accusing finger toward the man who sits in the glass
dock and cry ‘I accuse’. For their ashes were piled up in the
hills of Auschwitz and in the fields of Treblinka, or washed away by
the rivers of Poland; their graves are scattered over the length and
breadth of Europe. Their blood cries out, but their voices are not
heard. Therefore it falls to me to be their spokesman and to unfold in
their name the awesome indictment.”
Gideon
Hausner, Chief Prosecutor at the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in his
opening address to the court, 1961.
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