Konrad Adenauer looked even more grave than usual in his national television address. It was April 1961, hours before Adolf Eichmann would go on trial in Jerusalem for his key role, as a senior Nazi and SS lieutenant colonel, in planning the murder of six million European Jews. Adenauer , West German ’s first chancellor, told viewers he hoped the biggest Nazi trial since Nuremberg – would “bring the full truth to light . . . and that justice will be done”. Then he said something interesting: “In the German national body, in the moral life of the German people,...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
