SESSION XVII
ABOUT THIS SESSION
SESSION 17 of the trial of Adolf Eichmann took place in the afternoon of Wednesday, April 26, 1961. The session begins with the judges’ decision admitting extracts from the autobiography of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess, and the subsequent submission of those extracts into evidence. Moritz Fleischmann then continues his testimony from SESSION 16, recounting a humiliating encounter with a pair of SS guards. His testimony is followed by that of former German Jewish community leader Franz Eliezer Meyer, who recalls a series of meetings with Eichmann. Meyer also describes Eichmann’s assembly-line-like process for stripping Jews of their money and property, as implemented at the Central Office for the Emigration of the Jews (Zentralstelle fur Jeudische Auswanderung) in Vienna.
Only about half an hour of footage from SESSION 17 has survived.
NOTABLE MOMENTS
00:00 - Discussion on the admission of affidavits into evidence
07:41 - Testimony of Moritz Fleischmann
11:07 - Testimony of Franz Eliezer Meyer
11:21 - Meyer recalls his first meeting with Eichmann
19:24 - Meyer describes a dramatic change in Eichmann’s personality
20:40 - Meyer recalls Eichmann’s factory-like Vienna Emigration Office
25:31 - Meyer recalls his final meeting with Eichmann
TRANSCRIPT
Material highlighted green survives in video form.
Material highlighted pink has been lost.