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Posted Thursday,
August 12, 1999
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August 10, 1999
Eichmann’s death cell memoirs to be released
By Ohad Gozani in Tel
Aviv Associated Press
Writer
ISRAEL plans to release the memoirs of Adolf Eichmann, the
Nazi war criminal, to international scholars and his family, the Justice
Ministry said yesterday.
Eichmann, mastermind of the Holocaust, wrote the 1,300-page manuscript during his trial in Israel in 1961 and up to his execution a year later. The document, which has been kept in the vaults of the state archives in Jerusalem, is believed to be Eichmann’s vindication of his role in the genocide.
Release of the
manuscript was initially blocked for
fear that it would be used by neo-Nazi
groups to deny the Holocaust. Israeli
scholars have been divided on the
issue.
The Justice Ministry said the memoirs would be released for scholarly use only and, if published, must be fully annotated.
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