SESSION VII
ABOUT THIS SESSION
SESSION 7 of the trial of Adolf Eichmann took place in the afternoon of Monday, April 17, 1961. In this session, Prosecuting Attorney General Gideon Hausner continues his opening statement from SESSION 6, specifically discussing the extermination of the Jews of Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and activities against the Jews of the Soviet Union. His opening statement continues through the end of this session, and on into Session 8.
Only two sections comprising just a couple of minutes are missing from the surviving footage.
NOTABLE MOMENTS
0:00:00 - Court Not in Session
0:02:53 - Eichmann enters
0:05:14 - Session 7 Begins
0:05:40 - ‘The Final Solution to the Jewish Problem’ (cont. from previous session)
0:21:45 - Sketch artist draws the Presiding Judge
0:30:55 - ‘The Extermination in Poland’
1:24:11 - Hausner discusses the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1:36:45 - ‘The Extermination in the Soviet Union & Annexed Countries’
1:53:57 - Visibly emotional spectator
2:07:46 - Hausner quotes a poem by Shmerke Kaczerginski
TRANSCRIPT
Material highlighted green survives in video form.
Material highlighted pink has been lost.
Material highlighted black with red text appeared in the Attorney General's written opening statement, but was not spoken aloud in the courtroom.