50 Years since the Eichmann trial-Memories

On March 26 2012 the Peace Palace Library together with The Embassy of Israel organized the "50 Years since the Eichmann trial-Memories" lecture by Judge Gabriel Bach. Judge Gabriel Bach, Former Vice-President of the Israeli Supreme Court, and, at the time of the Eichmann trial in the years 1960-1962 member of the Israeli prosecution team, was entrusted with the preparation and conduct of prosecution in the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Bach was the lead coordinator for the investigation of Adolf Eichmann's crimes, acting as the legal advisor to the police bureau and preparing the case for trial. He served as one of three principal prosecutors during the trial Bach spent six months talking with Eichmann in preparation of the trial. Adolf Eichmann, referred to as the "architect of the Holocaust," was the head of the Gestapo, was captured in 1960 in Buenos Aires by the Israeli Mossad as part of a covert operation. He was then transported to Israel to be prosecuted in Jerusalem as a war criminal. Found guilty, responsible for the murder of millions of Jews, for living conditions designed to kill them, for causing grave physical and mental harm, for sterilization and otherwise prevented childbirth, for enslavement, starvation, and deportation, for general persecution of Jews based on national, racial, religious and political grounds.