- Actual trial footage, emotional recollections of trial witnesses and other key participants provide insight and contrasting perspectives of the Eichmann legacy.
- The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann held in an Israeli courtroom and broadcast around the globe, was a benchmark event in the historiography of the Holocaust, especially in Israel where the trial proved a watershed experience for survivors and citizens of the new Jewish state. Employing new video and broadcast technologies, the trial was also a milestone in media and journalism coverage. From the producers of Being Jewish in France and Einsatzgruppen, this absorbing, comprehensive new documentary features detailed accounts of Eichmann's capture, the drama in the courtroom and behind the scenes, and reactions to the trial from around the world.
- In 1961, the televised trial of Nazi SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by a Jerusalem court shocked the world. Eichmann, whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe to concentration camps had made him the target of a 15-year manhunt by Israeli agents, adopted the same defense as that of other Nazi's: he was just following orders. Actual trial footage, emotional recollections of trial witnesses and other key participants provide insight and contrasting perspectives of Eichmann's unsettling legacy.—Official PBS Home Video
- The 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann held in an Israeli courtroom and broadcast around the globe, was a benchmark event in the historiography of the Holocaust, especially in Israel where the trial proved a watershed experience for survivors and citizens of the new Jewish state. Employing new video and broadcast technologies, the trial was also a milestone in media and journalism coverage.
From the producers of Being Jewish in France and Einsatzgruppen, this absorbing, comprehensive new documentary features detailed accounts of Eichmann's capture, the drama in the courtroom and behind the scenes, and reactions to the trial from around the world.
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By what name was The Trial of Adolf Eichmann (1997) officially released in Canada in English?
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