English subtitles for clip: File:1961-04-13 Tale Of Century - Eichmann Tried For War Crimes.ogv
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1 00:00:05,830 --> 00:00:09,712 A story that had a grim preface in the horror of Nazi concentration camps 2 00:00:09,747 --> 00:00:12,489 comes to an equally grim end in Israel, 3 00:00:12,535 --> 00:00:16,760 as Adolf Eichmann is sentenced for his crimes against humanity. 4 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,680 Defence attorney Robert Servatius will automatically appeal 5 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,711 but this is the end for Eichmann 6 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:25,492 who was seized in Buenos Aires in 1960 and spirited to Israel. 7 00:00:25,651 --> 00:00:27,904 The three judges started to study the evidence 8 00:00:27,937 --> 00:00:30,532 when the four-month trial ended in August 9 00:00:30,631 --> 00:00:34,017 and found Eichmann guilty on fifteen counts of the indictment. 10 00:00:34,141 --> 00:00:38,866 In his bullet-proof booth, Eichmann sits stoically as the charges are summed up. 11 00:00:38,916 --> 00:00:41,737 The unseen witnesses against this former Gestapo Colonel 12 00:00:41,788 --> 00:00:45,794 are the six million Jews he is convicted of slaughtering. 13 00:00:47,793 --> 00:00:51,384 Judges then call on the defendant to stand as they pass their sentence. 14 00:00:51,384 --> 00:00:53,926 The end of a trail of blood and horror, 15 00:00:53,963 --> 00:00:57,019 the end of a man whose name will be written in infamy. 16 00:00:57,053 --> 00:01:00,725 A man who escaped the Nuremberg War Trials by fleeing to South America 17 00:01:00,751 --> 00:01:02,271 receives justice 18 00:01:02,297 --> 00:01:06,332 at the hands of the people whom he had aimed to wipe out.