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2012.1.365

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Manuscript

Date

1961

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Fragile paper with typewritten text in English.

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Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi SS officer, resident “expert” on matters and issues related to Jews, and thus tasked with implementing the Final Solution to the Jewish question: the mass murder of the Jews. He was chief of the Gestapo’s Jewish section and encouraged and oversaw the deportations of Jews from Germany and the occupied countries. He was recording secretary at the Wannsee conference where the "Final Solution" was formulated. Captured and smuggled to Israel, he was convicted of war crimes and hanged in 1962. These papers are from the files of Robert Servatius, Eichmann’s defense attorney; a typed manuscript (1962) in which the unrepentant Eichmann essentially blamed World War II and the Holocaust on the Jews themselves. Eichmann's treatise is centered on Zionism and his opinion on its effects on world politics. Eichmann states: "... The chance for the Zionists to get Palestine will be found in a worldwide war... This activity of the Zionists had no other motive but to stir up the nations against each other... To disturb the European balance, to create chaos by war and revolution... Weakening of the European Nations by losses of population... Gavrilo Princip was a Jew... Lloyd George refuses this offer [of peace by Germany], because he knows... The United States had promised the Zionists to enter the war... The Germans are indebted to the Zionists for these changes... With the German disaster [of surrender and Versailles] grows the supremacy of the Jews in Germany.... With the take-over by Hitler.... Zionism recognizes that the good times in Germany are gone... Zionist reaction come quick. It is the world-trade-boycott.... Hitler had given the order in June 1941, to solve the 'Jewish question,' i.e., to annihilate the Jewish population of Europe physically... if World War II, as Mr. Chamberlain has said, was initiated by Judaism... Then of course the Zionists are responsible for the losses on both sides."

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11 1/2 x 8"

Keywords

Nazi, Military, Officer, Zionism, Jewish question, convicted, Adolf Eichman

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Manuscript from Adolf Eichmann's Defense Attorney

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