The Israeli government informed Adolf Eichmann's defense counsel that witnesses on his list would be arrested if they entered Israel.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 10, 2026
The record supports the core claim: when the defense submitted its witness list, Attorney General Gideon Hausner, speaking for the prosecution and state, said four of the six listed witnesses were Nazi war criminals who would be arrested on arrival in Israel, and another session record says the defense's intended witnesses were war criminals who could not enter Israel.
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… a defense witness by Eichmann's counsel, and interestingly, he proffered his testimony at either in Berlin or Nuremberg, and it was read into the record in Jerusalem. But, uh, many witnesses were just categorically excluded that Eichmann wished to call, and the Israelis made it clear also, when his defense counsel proffered a witness list, that virtually all the witnesses he intended to call would immediately be arrested if they set foot in Israel. So, I mean, that, that, that sort of a, I almost comically, um, obtuse declaration that due process is simply not going to be honored. …
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Supports. JTA reports that when the defense's six-person list was submitted, Attorney General Gideon Hausner said four of them were Nazi war criminals who would be arrested as soon as they came to Israel.[1]
Supports. The Eichmann trial session record quotes Hausner noting that all intended defense witnesses were war criminals under the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators Punishment Law and therefore might not enter Israel.[2]
Supports. A defense-side account says the State of Israel could not guarantee the defense witnesses would not face charges for past activities, which is why the defense could not bring its own witnesses.[3]
Context. The extraction drops the post's 'virtually all' qualifier and speaks of 'witnesses on his list' generally; the record's specific figure is four of six named witnesses, so the claim is graded as a faithful paraphrase of the passage rather than an addition.[1]
Sources
3 sources: 3 not rated
- 1Eichmann's Prosecutor to Decide Today on Granting Immunity to Ex ...jta.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 2Eichmann Trial -- Session 29 -- Testimonies of A. Aviel and H. Behrendtportal.ehri-project.eu · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Fifty Years Since the Eichmann Trial, by Prof. Chana Yablonkayadvashem.org · not rated · cited for: supports
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