The Eichmann Trial History formidable yet nuanced

formidable yet nuanced

Solomon persuades attorney Catherine Lockhart to take his case

they were treated as public spectacle

and decorated with dyed tagua nuts

both men had been killed

The Eichmann Trial History formidable yet nuancedBy Deborah E. Lipstadt The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media coverage of the trial itself, was a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Holocaust survivors in