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ADOLF EICHMANN
I didn't care about the Jews
that I deported to Auschwitz.

I didn't even care if they
were alive or already dead.

Jews unfit to work

are to be submitted
to the Final Solution. Period.

Previously on

The Devil's Confession:
The Lost Eichmann Tapes...

Adolf Eichmann evades capture
by the Allies for 15 years,

fleeing to Argentina.

Following Eichmann's capture
in 1960,

Nazi journalist Willem Sassen
takes advantage of the media frenzy

and sells excerpts of the
interviews toLife Magazine.

The publication of
the Life Magazineinterview

I think
was an astonishing moment.

Almost worldwide sensation.

MAN
Where is it?

This enrages
Eichmann's family and supporters,

who demand Sassen
turn over the tapes.

When the Eichmann story
blows into the public,

the Nazis who were
still around in Argentina,

they moved against my father,

because my father betrayed,
in their eyes.

But fearing for his life, Sassen
denies knowing their whereabouts.

MAN
All rise!

Adolf Eichmann.

The extended arm of Hitler's evil regime.

Nazis have always denied
their role in the Holocaust.

It could not have been me, because it was
not my decision in such cases.

After the
war, many fled Europe,

including the architect
of the Final Solution -

Adolf Eichmann.

He's practically the last

important Nazi who arrived

in Argentina after the war.

While hiding
in Argentina,

Eichmann records
a series of interviews

with Nazi journalist
Willem Sassen,

admitting his role
in the Holocaust.

Sassen came up
with this crazy idea

that he would interview the
mastermind of the Holocaust.

This is him boasting
about what he did.

The tapes are rediscovered,
and now for the first time,

we'll hear Eichmann
admitting his crimes,

a true Nazi confession.

With so many people
seeking the tapes,

Sassen knows he needs
a safe hiding place

and gives them to an old ally
before fleeing to Paraguay.

There was
a former Luftwaffe officer

who had also escaped
to Argentina after the war.

This man called Dieter Menge.

And Menge made a lot of money.

And Menge had a very large
house outside Buenos Aires,

a meeting place for Nazis.

They actually had a flag post
where they raised the Nazi flag,

they saw Nazi movies,
they toasted to the Fuührer.

Maybe he made a deal with Sassen
to sell the tapes to somebody

and they split the money.

You have to bear in mind, you know,
these are Nazi adventurers, ex-SS men.

These are people
who had no problem with lying

and they had no problem
with lying to each other.

Menge takes no risks
and buries the tapes

in his backyard
outside of Buenos Aires.

Eichmann's taped recollections
were self incriminating.

And if accepted at the trial,

Eichmann admitted
the charges against him.

But Eichmann and Sassen aren't the
only ones interested in the tapes.

Israeli Attorney General
Gideon Hausner,

knows the tapes will prove,
beyond a shadow of a doubt,

that Eichmann's repeated claims
that he was simply following orders

are nothing more than lies.

The governments of Israel,
West Germany and the US

also have a variety of interests
that make the very existence

of the tapes problematic.

The BND, the West German
foreign intelligence service,

had great concern
about what Eichmann

had told Sassen
and would tell the Israelis.

It wasn't simply the trial
of the century.

It was the trial
of the century

at the height of the Cold War.

With the whereabouts of the
recordings still in question,

Attorney General Hausner is
forced to rely on the excerpts

published inLife Magazine

as evidence
of Eichmann's guilt.

If I were Hausner,
I would have been pleased.

Because it's showing the world
who this man was.

It's sort of tilling the soil
before we plant.

Regarding Life Magazine
and its publication

that we showed the defendant
during the interrogation,

he did not deny

that this publication relied on material
that came from him.

LAWRENCE DOUGLAS
You could say it simplifies

some of the work of the
prosecution

in that it complicates any kind of
defense that Eichmann is going to mount,

because it sounds
as if he is now acknowledging

his participation
in this genocide,

and doing so without the
remotest expression of regret.

You were given the Life article
for your review.

You said,
when you saw the Einsatzgruppen in action:

"Our people will turn into sadists,

we must find a different
method of execution. " True?

The last part, that we must find
a different method for executions,

this seems foreign to me.
I'm hearing it for the first time.

Well, you said that if extermination
must be physical,

let it be physical, but not by gunfire.

To prevent a Jewish baby's brain

from splattering on your leather coat
as it did in Minsk.

Right?

No! This is a totally wrong interpretation
of my words.

I did not express them like this.

The meaning was that you cannot go

and kill people. I explained this clearly.

In principle, it doesn't matter
if you use gas or bullets.

Eichmann lied to 2.5 million
Jews into their own death

and we seriously believe
that we can tell

whether he is telling
the truth or not?

Forget it.

But you are stating here: "Now,
as the Führer ordered a physical solution,

it must be a physical solution. "
Physical solution!

- Did I sign that? I don't think so.
- You didn't make any comment on that!

Obviously, it must have slipped my sight.

Otherwise, I would have
certainly corrected it.

BETTINA STANGNETH Eichmann is
used to being in such a situation.

He is fighting a war
on several fronts.

He has the judges,
the prosecution, the audience,

and he needs
to figure out his role.

Of course he chose the role that he had
already performed for Sassen, but in reverse.

To Sassen, he always said:

"I really wasn't
a little bureaucrat!"

And it is precisely this role

of the annoyingly bureaucratic
and petty-minded guy

that he chooses to play
in court.

Eichmann in Jerusalem
is a man without a uniform.

He is a man
in a slightly oversized suit.

Eichmann knows
how to appear different,

with attitude,
posture, clothing,

glasses, and haircut.

He knows how to look harmless.

Eichmann said he was a
clerk who always cooperated

and did
what he was told to do.

The psychiatrist who examined
him said that it was all a mask.

He didn't really try
to please people.

That was how he presented
himself to the world.

To determine
his fitness for trial,

Hausner asks for Eichmann to
be evaluated by a psychiatrist.

It was a tool, trying to
figure out who these people are

who committed murder on
such a scale, in such a way,

with such composure.

Maybe we can learn something that
will be of relevance in the trial.

The psychiatrist recounts Eichmann's
childhood as Eichmann had told him.

He said that his father was very
strict. He would often slap him.

He was scared of his father and he learned
from his father that he must not be weak.

He realized that he should
never show weakness

and he did everything with
such loyalty and precision

so that any inkling of the fear
in his life wouldn't come out.

The childhood and youth of Adolf
Eichmann lack any aura or glamour.

He has no profession
until he enlists to the SS.

His senses tell him
that there in the SS

he will have
a significant career.

When you got
this black uniform,

everyone was looking at you

with respect, also with fear,

and you were on the top

of the pyramid
of the German people.

You were part of an elite
even if you were a worker

or had no school,

no university study,
and so on.

Eichmann becomes
an important man.

He has an official car, he has
a driver, he has secretaries,

and he must have dreamt about
all of this his entire life.

His personal frustration was the
reason for the zeal and passion

to achieve
at least one big achievement.

And this big achievement
is connected

to the persecution
of European Jews.

The Nazis were obsessed
with their racial theories

about the inferiority
of the Jewish people.

The Nazis
had this insane belief

that a person's ethnic group or
the national group you were part of

or the religious group you
were part of were different,

this were the eugenics.

And he really believed

that Jews
were inherently different

from Germans.

In late 1934, Eichmann is
appointed to the new department

responsible for
Jewish affairs at the SS.

The agency is tasked
with surveillance

and terrorizing enemies
of the Nazi-German state.

Eichmann
was devising systems

for identifying Jews,

for following Jews in their
activities, for monitoring,

trying to work out for the SS

a systematic way
of tracking Jews.

During his conversations
with Sassen,

Eichmann takes the liberty
of disclosing

one of Adolf Hitler's
biggest secrets.

I myself looked into
the Führer's dietary cook

in terms of her origins,

and I concluded
that in the context of the Nuremberg Laws

she is to be addressed as a 1/32 Jewess.

Who?

Eva Braun,

the "dietary cook" of the Führer!

I say that with air quotation marks.

In reality, she was the Führer's bride.

The bride of the Führer
of the Greater German Reich.

Eichmann not
only tracks the Jews,

but is also responsible
for forcing them

to emigrate
to different countries.

Looking for
potential destinations,

he visits Palestine,
then under British rule,

but is quickly detained
and expelled.

In his report about the trip,

he describes
his anti-Semitic views,

which he also expresses
to Sassen.

The Jewish population acquired

such an exaggeratedly high share
of the economic assets

compared to their proportion

of the population

that here, how should I say…

the Jew had understood to violently grab
everything with brutality

and leave others hungry.

You've always been
a devoted antisemite, right?

I've never been an antisemite,
but a nationalist.

And there's a written
as well as an oral record of that.

I've never been an antisemite.

LAWRENCE DOUGLAS Eichmann characterizes
himself in all sorts of ways.

"Look, I was never anti-Semite

and I harbor no ill will
towards the Jewish people. "

The Sassen interviews

and the Sassen tapes
gave a lie to that.

The things you said
in Sassen's conversations

indicate severe antisemitism, don't they?

I said it is difficult for me to remember
if I said such things.

What does Dr. Servatius say at this point?

He just always confirmed that there
was a recorded conversation,

but he never said that what is written
down is the content from that recording.

Dr. Robert Servatius is chosen

by the family
to defend Eichmann,

and in the interest
of staging a fair trial,

the Israeli government
agrees to pay his salary.

He is a well-known attorney
in Germany after representing

a number of Nazi war criminals
at the Nuremberg Trials.

Servatius was a respectful
defense lawyer

at the same time that he tried
to defend his client

and he tried to rely on the defense
that his client himself supplied.

Namely, that he was just a cog
in the machine.

Servatius
has to defend his client

and that can only be done
if you know what to expect.

And Eichmann, the idiot,
doesn't tell his lawyer

that in Argentina
he gave an interview

that was
a thousand pages long.

Partially, Eichmann lied
without end.

Attorney Robert Servatius
has stated

that he will withdraw from
the defense of Adolf Eichmann

if it turns out that the
claims attributed to his client

byLife Magazine are genuine.

Servatius also added
that he would check

the credibility of Eichmann's
confession with his brother,

Dr. Robert Eichmann,
in Linz, Austria.

Naturally, they all wanted
their friend, husband, brother

to be properly defended.

And Eichmann's extended family
was always ready to help.

They stayed in touch with him
and still lived in Austria.

But here, too,
it's unknown who

we are dealing with exactly.

The Eichmann family
in Austria, at least in part,

benefited from
their brother's career.

Eichmann's father, who joined the
Nazi party on the same day as his son,

couldn't explain after the war
why he owned several things

that formerly belonged
to Jewish people.

And in this respect, the family was
clearly a part of the inner circle.

Despite his misgivings,
Servatius is persuaded

by the Eichmann family
to continue defending him

and in exchange, they agreed
to cover his many expenses.

The family also passes
encoded messages

through Servatius
to Eichmann in Israel.

Eichmann's personal
conferences with his lawyer

lead to a secret meeting
of Israeli cabinet members.

The government
session focuses on

whether or not to allow
a meeting in private

between Servatius
and Eichmann.

At the meeting, it is decided
that Eichmann and Servatius

should no longer be allowed
to meet in private.

But, Isser Harel, Head of
the Israeli Secret Service,

informs everyone that, in fact, the
meetings are being secretly recorded

and confirms that Servatius is passing
encrypted messages to his client.

GADI WARSHA Isser just
says, "We listened in on them

and they don't know it,"
and moves on.

Hausner himself
reassures Servatius

that his attorney-client meetings
are not being listened to.

He knows the illegal
wiretapping might allow him

to obtain vital information
about Sassen's recordings.

BETTINA STANGNETH The "oak
tree" we are talking about

is of great significance
to Germans.

When one says
that an oak tree won't fall,

it always means that the
person shall stand straight,

that he will overcome
what he faces,

that everything
will be resolved.

With this code,
Sassen was saying to Eichmann,

"Don't worry,
I hid the tapes. "

With Hausner unable
to locate the Sassen tapes,

the court's ultimate decision
on whether or not to admit

the Life Magazine article
into evidence

will be crucial to him
proving Eichmann's guilt.

The prosecutor submitted
the defendant's comments to us

in response to the article
that appeared in Life Magazine.

Yes.

His primary claim

is that "Life" published only
a summary of his remarks

and therefore, the meaning in
the full source may be different.

HANNA YABLONKA
Eichmann is right, of course.

He claimed
that what a journalist does

with his freedom of speech

does not apply to him.

There was no way that Hausner

could actually verify

the truthfulness
of the Life Magazine article

and the court is trying
to demonstrate that look,

we are a court of law.

Even though it looks like
highly probative evidence,

we don't really have the
resources to authenticate it

and so unfortunately we can't
accept it in as evidence.

Did the prosecution procure the original?

No, we don't have the original.

Based on our information,

it was recorded and submitted
to a journalist in Argentina,

a Dutch Nazi, we are told,

but we don't have the original tapes.

LAWRENCE DOUGLAS
Sassen was not about

to cooperate
with the Israelis.

The contract that he signed
with Life Magazine

permitted Lifeto supply
some of the materials

to some other
media organizations,

but specifically barred
Life Magazine

from sharing anything
with the Israelis.

So it raises the question of how
do you get hold of this material?

So you can't get
the full transcript from "Life"?

If the court so wishes,
the prosecution will try to do so

and contact Life Magazine.

Our experience, typically,

in newspaper inquiries to request
the sources of their information

is not encouraging and hopeful.

TIMOTHY NAFTALI
This is a document showing

that the assistant editor
of Life Magazine

gave the CIA
an advanced copy of the text

of their article on Eichmann.

What interests Americans

is the propaganda value

of what Eichmann is saying
in Life Magazine.

They were worried
about how the East Germans

and the Soviets
would use this.

With the battle lines
of the Cold War

literally running through
the middle of Germany,

many worried about
what sensitive material

the Eichmann
recordings contained.

This was not
just about history.

It wasn't just about memory.
It wasn't just about justice.

It was also about politics

and foreign policy
and security matters,

and it was also about
the climax of the Cold War.

To get a sense
of where the Cold War was

at the moment of the trial,

keep in mind
that the Berlin Wall goes up

while Eichmann is on trial.

We must, and we will look
into the future with full confidence.

Because also the West woke up
to the threat from the East.

TIMOTHY NAFTALI There
were two Germanys warring

for the right to be Germany,

but also for the right
to be the Germany

that came after Hitler.

Germans were very concerned

that this trial was going to be a
source of all sorts of embarrassment,

demonstrating that there
are a lot of Nazis

who remained in positions of
high power within Germany itself.

REPORTER
While Eichmann was
standing trial in Jerusalem,

many of his accomplices are still free

and hold senior positions in West Germany.

TIMOTHY NAFTALI
The East Germans saw this

as an opportunity
to remind the world

that, yeah,
there's only one Eichmann,

but that doesn't mean
there's only one bad Nazi left

who deserves justice.

And some of them worked
for Konrad Adenauer.

Konrad Adenauer is the first
Chancellor of West Germany

after World War II, and is
charged with leading his country

from the post-war chaos
into the modern era.

The person
with perhaps the most to lose

if the tapes are heard
during Eichmann's trial

is Adenauer's right-hand man,
Hans Globke,

who oversaw the plan
for the enforcement

of the Nuremberg Race Laws
later carried out by Eichmann.

Hans Globke is one of the most
powerful men in West Germany.

He is the closest advisor
to Adenauer.

Now we know that as a lawyer,

a bureaucrat
in the Nazi system,

he helped draft
the Nuremberg Laws,

which established
the "legal basis"

for discrimination
against German Jews.

Why would Adenauer employ
someone like Globke?

It was an open offer
to all German people:

We integrate all of you,
even with a Nazi past.

We're not going
to lock you all up.

You may continue working
within our establishment.

Since Israel
is trying Eichmann,

one cannot overlook
the Nuremberg Laws,

because it's obvious
that Eichmann will say,

"What do you want from me?

I applied the laws
of the Third Reich. "

And who made these laws?
Hans Globke.

This was a major problem
for Adenauer.

And just as East Germany
went into overdrive

to start
pumping out propaganda,

West Germany was worried
about what Eichmann might say.

The BND was very key

in trying to make sure
that they had an ear on

what was going on in Israel,

tried to manipulate things
a little under the table.

Eichmann's connections
to not only Globke,

but other former Nazi
officials who were integrated

into the new West German
government could be exposed

if Sassen's recordings
are played in court.

Hausner knows that this is against the
interest of the West German government

and therefore against the interest
of his own government as well.

Hausner is aware
that Ben-Gurion,

against strong opposition
from within the country,

and despite protests and riots
led by Holocaust survivors,

is negotiating with West
Germany to support Israel.

Three months
before the trial took place,

Ben-Gurion met Adenauer
in New York.

He had a clear interest
for the sake of Israel

to establish relations
with Germany.

It was an encounter
of vested interests -

Israel desperately
needed support

and West Germany was in
desperate need of rehabilitation.

For someone to say that
West Germany is different,

that it is not Nazi Germany.

I said, in the Knesset,

in the Israeli parliament,
last summer,

that Germany of today is
not the Germany of yesterday.

The story of the Eichmann affair
from the Israeli perspective

is a nostalgic, heroic,
a very romantic story,

how David demanded justice from
the already defeated Goliath.

But this is nothing
but a shadow boxing,

a smoke screen
that conceals the true story.

And the true story is the
Israeli-German nuclear project.

Once a decision is made that Israel
will launch a nuclear project,

there are things
that have to be done.

It demands
a certain technology,

certain materials,

and first and foremost,

a lot, a lot of money.

Money that the newly established
State of Israel doesn't have.

Very quickly, David Ben-Gurion

and Shimon Peres,
his political partner,

realize that the way to
continue with the nuclear project

is by partnering
with De Gaulle's France

and Adenauer's Germany.

Adenauer and Strauss,
his defense minister,

put a gun on the table,
so to say.

You want us to continue
funding the nuclear project?

So do not mention the name
Hans Globke at the trial.

And that
certainly was communicated

from Ben-Gurion
to Gideon Hausner.

I don't think we should be
entirely surprised

that there was some kind
of, what we might say,

cross-fertilization
between Ben-Gurion

and the Attorney General
of Israel.

Ben-Gurion tried
to prevent the prosecutor

from submitting a document
at trial

that shows
that Globke took part

in a meeting
with Eichmann's representative

where they're talking
about seizing property.

This is
a very important document.

Hausner comes to Ben-Gurion and
says, "I have this document. "

Ben-Gurion says, "Perhaps
don't make it public. "

And Hausner says,
"I can't not make it public. "

And Ben-Gurion has no choice.

Then they even decide
to notify Adenauer

that such a document
is going to be presented,

which is contrary
to all legal logic.

Who does such a thing?

Ben-Gurion was well aware
of Globke's part

in phrasing
the Nuremberg Laws.

And yet, he has to take care

of the state he's responsible
for - Israel.

A couple of days
before the trial,

Hausner gives Ben-Gurion

the text
of his opening speech.

GIDEON HAUSNER
When I stand before you here,

Judges of Israel,

to lead the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann,

I do not stand alone.

Standing here with me, at this time,

are six million accusers.

But they will not be able to point the
finger of blame at the glass cell,

because their ashes are piled up
among the hills of Auschwitz,

in the fields of Treblinka.

DEBORAH LIPSTADT I know many
Israelis of a certain age

who can quote
the opening paragraph

of that speech.

And Ben-Gurion makes
very few comments about it,

but just the only thing
he asks

is that wherever Hausner
refers to Germany,

he refer to "Nazi Germany. "

GIDEON HAUSNER
The fracture of the people of Israel
in this generation

was discussed in a few of the trials

that were held
after Nazi Germany was defeated

in World War II.

It is certainly the case
that Ben-Gurion did exercise

some influence
over the prosecution.

Ben-Gurion knew
Israel needed arms.

Israel needed
financial support of Germany.

He may have hated doing it,
but he was a practical man.

With this trial,
Ben-Gurion also wanted to show

why Israel, why Jews,
must have the bomb.

So there won't be
another Holocaust.

The story
of the Holocaust is, in fact,

the story
of Eichmann's career.

After establishing methods
to identify the Jews,

he is promoted
and sent to Austria,

which was annexed
by the German Reich

and empowered with the task
of ridding the country of Jews.

Eichmann arrives in Austria,
and immediately,

he is establishing
his old idea

of creating a central
emigration bureau for the Jews.

He took over
the Rothschild Palais,

a famous place for Jews.

There he creates a pattern,
how to get rid of the Jews

and to force them to leave at
least some of their property

to the Third Reich.

Meaning, an official robbery

plus deportation.

One of those
Jews came to the trial

and testified at the trial

that you walked into
the Rothschild Palais

with a business, with a home,

with bank accounts,
with possessions,

and as you went from desk to
desk, you gave up these things

and you came out at the end
with permission to leave Austria.

DR. FRANZ MAYER
There was a big room

in which Eichmann sat.

- You instantly saw him.
- Yes, of course.

This was a man with the temperament
of a ruler over life and death,

rude, crude.

When we entered,

he didn't let us approach his desk.

We had to stand the whole time.

RONI STAUBER Eichmann
gained power and control.

By now, he realized
that this is the way

to promote his career
and to gain achievements.

It's his success with the Jews
that will be his test.

Can you confirm that what you did
in Austria was actually

forcing the Jews into deportation?

You boast about having organized
the Jewish emigration

according to the assembly line method.

I did not force any Jew to emigrate.

On the contrary, Dr. Löwenherz
came to me-

I'm asking for an answer.

I had demanded from Löwenherz
to present me with

at least 1,200 to 1,400 Jews
per day at the time.

It was a coming and going,
the whole day.

If I tell you that for multiple weeks

every day we had 1,000 Jews
ready for departure.

The German hierarchy
was so impressed

by the way
Eichmann handled this

that this sort of skyrocketed
him into this organizational task.

ADOLF EICHMANN
They recognized my department

as a treasure chest

where everything

in regards to Jewish life in Austria

could be found.

GIDEON HAUSNER
You controlled the lives
of the Jews in the Reich.

No, that is not correct.
That is not correct.

It is more clear,

after we heard about that period
from Dr. Löwenherz

and the other testimonies.

So everyone is lying besides you
who is telling the truth?

No, the documents tell the truth.
And they confirm what I just said.

and they confirm
what I just said.

GIDEON HAUSNER
If you want to call black white
and white black,

I can't do anything about it.

HANNA YABLONKA Within six months
after his arrival to Austria,

Eichmann succeeds to expel
more Jews from Austria

than Germany has succeeded
in all the five years

since Hitler's rise to power.

This really caught
the eyes of the Fuührer

and soon enough, in November of
1938, the Kristallnacht happened.

In January, Hitler will set up

a Central Authority for
Jewish Emigration in Germany.

Eichmann was one
of the key characters

leading to the "Final
Solution" as we know it.

Perhaps the most damning part
of Eichmann's legacy

is his participation
in the Wannsee Conference,

where the plan for the vicious
extermination of all Jews in Europe

is meticulously laid out.

The Conference is led by Eichmann's
commander, Reinhard Heydrich,

head of the Reich Security
Main Office.

On 20th January 1942,

15 high ranking members
of the Nazi state

met here to discuss
in 90 minutes the organization

for systematic mass murder
of all Jews in Europe.

The house that we know as the
house of the Wannsee Conference

was an SS hotel.

People come here
to spend leisure time,

to take a swim in the lake
that we know as Wannsee,

and then the house
was also used

for talks and conferences.

We know that the men
were invited here

to have the talk on the "Final
Solution of the Jewish Question"

as they put it
in the invitation,

accompanied by breakfast.

They had food.
They had alcohol.

Eichmann refers to "cognac. "

The session
lasted 90 minutes.

It's astonishing to see a group
of 15 people discussing the murder

of millions of Jews
and nobody's concerned,

as if they're talking
about moving a table

from one side of the room
to the other side.

Gentlemen, I hope you enjoyed your meal.

We now proceed to the main question
in regards to the "Final Solution,"

namely determining which group of people
will be considered for evacuation.

The decision for systematic
mass murder is closely related

to other decisions
of dominating the whole world,

wanting to keep the world
free of Jews.

The "Final Solution," or what
most people call the "Holocaust,"

takes place only at the end of
the Holocaust, from late 1941,

when Nazi Germany changes
its policy

from forced emigration
to a total annihilation.

Once the Nazis
invade the USSR,

they realize
that they have to tackle

huge numbers
of Jews and Communists

and largely everything
they hate.

They conclude that the
solution must be immediate.

So they begin to murder.

And while murdering,
they realize

that it creates difficulties

for their troops,
mostly mentally.

The negative effect of the
murdering on the soldiers

forced the Nazis
to find another solution.

The new solution came in the
form of organization and order.

There is a German proverb...

"There must be order. "

It is a big operation, millions
of Jews have to be transported

to the place of death.
How do you organize it?

And here is the man who knows
how to do it professionally.

Do you know

if several years before the war

there had already been a plan
meticulously detailed by Heydrich

down to the smallest detail,

for the so-called
solution of the "Jewish Question?"

No, I would have had to know about that.

After we started marching,

the moment dictated these things.

But was Heydrich not mandated
at the Wannsee Conference

with the solution of the Jewish question?

In fact he was authorized to…

to initiate, to take over
the final solution to the Jewish question.

He was empowered to do so.

Heydrich wanted to get the certification
to deal with Jewish affairs as he wished.

He received it
at the Wannsee Conference.

You were his qualified referent

for all matters arising
from the "Final Solution. "

That is not true.

I was simply tasked
with the administrative process

of invitations for these people to

the conference in March '42.

In most of the movies that were
made on the Wannsee Conference,

you would rather see him
sitting aside,

only taking notes.

That is what
he himself claims.

The topic that is being talked
about is his topic.

Eichmann was in charge of
organizing the deportations,

of coordinating activities.

He's the one
preparing the numbers.

This very famous page six

of the minutes that summarizes

all European countries
where the line is drawn

and 11 million European Jews
are mentioned

that are going to be
deported and killed.

So that is Eichmann's role.

Eichmann later ensures
that explicit words

like "murder" or "execution"
will not be mentioned

since he's very much aware
of the need of secrecy.

One of the mechanisms
that makes it easier

for the German society,
for the German institutions

and even, in part,
for the rest of the world,

not to be aware
of what's going on.

There is a word

that is used in this document

and that is the word of
"behandelt" - the treatment.

They would be
suitably treated.

At that point of time,
for most of the perpetrators,

to my knowledge, is clearly
understood as killing.

Eichmann writes the protocol
of the Conference

and sends it
to the relevant offices.

Then he carries out the
decisions of the Conference,

being sure that this is what
the angel of history

has asked him to do.

The Führer has given
the order for physical extermination…

I had heard these words
for the first time.

I know that all too well.

I even thought to myself,
"physical extermination…"

You see, the word in itself
is already rather peculiar.

If it had been, "The Führer has ordered
the extermination of the Jews…"

But like that?
"Physical extermination…"

It seemed incredible to me.

LAWRENCE DOUGLAS Eichmann is
something of a logistical mastermind

and he wants to make sure

that he is highly successful
in the deportations,

and he does this
with full awareness

that the result of deporting
these Jewish persons

to these killing centers is
that they're going to be killed.

You saw in the Jews an enemy
that had to be exterminated,

like any other enemy.

The slogan was:
"The enemy must be exterminated. "

The word "extermination"
is not appropriate

because you don't exterminate an enemy,

you need to fight the enemy.

But not a physical extermination,
like the one Hitler commanded.

GIDEON HAUSNER
Do you know of
a non-physical extermination?

GIDEON GREIF Adolf Eichmann
visited Auschwitz many times.

He went there
to inspect and to be sure

that his instructions
are being carried out.

He even had some
improvement suggestions.

We know this from the camp
commander, Rudolf Hoöss,

who welcomed him there
each time.

You need to know that,

if someone is already
in a concentration camp

it is rather easy to get in,
but extremely difficult to get out again.

Very difficult.

GIDEON GREIF He was asked
by some cabinet ministers

of the German Nazi government
to make them a personal favor

and release
some important Jews

who have made
some important inventions

for Nazi Germany.

Nothing helped.

He always said,
"I make no exceptions. "

He was... there's a saying
in Hebrew, "Meshuga ladavar. "

He was crazed to kill

every Jew he could find.

GIDEON HAUSNER
It's more elegant to kill with gas.

Isn't that what the people
from the Eastern Ministry said?

Yes, but that definitely
wasn't my opinion.

That should be clear
from what was said before.

I don't know who introduced
the physical extermination.

DEBORAH LIPSTADT If Hausner
had had access to the tapes,

that he could have played
the tapes in the trial,

then the next question he
would have asked Eichmann was,

were you lying then
or are you lying now?

With Hausner still unable to
get his hands on the tapes,

he presses Eichmann
to admit to his culpability

in the extermination
of the Jewish people.

Here, on the tapes,
Eichmann clearly admits

to the deceptive techniques
used by the Nazis

to make the gas chambers appear
like innocent shower rooms.

A brigadier general,

he reported to me

that they installed sprinklers
that looked like shower heads.

This would be a shower room.

And they would put in the idiots
and throw in cyanide.

Still unable to get Eichmann

to admit his guilt
in open court

or locate the whereabouts
of the tapes,

Hausner finds
another solution.

He drops a bombshell
on the defense,

shocking everyone
in the courtroom

by miraculously introducing
copies of the actual transcripts

that Sassen has made of his
interviews with Eichmann.

GIDEON HAUSNER
I must inform the court

that efforts were made
to procure the transcript.

And we have it.

Not from Life Magazine.

Is it a copy or…?

It's a transcription. It's not brief.

It's several hundreds of pages.

We do not have the tape, but…

there are also remarks by Eichmann

in his handwriting.

What he called

"side notes. "

DEBORAH LIPSTADT The transcripts
of the tapes become available,

and not just the transcripts,
but the transcripts

with corrections
in Eichmann's handwriting.

Because Sassen
transcribed the tapes,

gave them to Eichmann
and said, "Go over them

and see
if there's anything wrong. "

And you have his corrections
in his handwriting.

So this
was firsthand evidence.

When you want to sell such
a document around the world,

while everybody is talking about
the issue of Nazis on the run,

it's not such a smart idea to put
thousands of pages in a heavy suitcase

and take it for a trip.

It's heavy!

Nowadays, it can be
a PDF file on our cellphones,

but in those days, it was
several kilos of luggage.

Very noticeable,
large, and heavy.

It could have been stolen.

So Sassen did what
any smart person would do.

He made copies, backup copies.

That means
he simply took pictures.

One of these copies
reaches Gideon Hausner,

who never reveals
how he obtained

the transcripts
of the Sassen recordings,

taking the secret
to his grave.

But we do know that Nazi
hunter Simon Wiesenthal

was in touch with Hausner
during the trial

and may have assisted
in procuring the evidence.

In July 1945, I obtained from
the Jewish Agency

a wanted notice against Adolf Eichmann

that proved that he was the main culprit
for the mass murder of the Jews of Europe.

After reading this notice
and other documents,

Eichmann was also, in my eyes,
the murderer of my family.

RENEÉ BIENERT Individuals
like Simon Wiesenthal

made those former
Nazi criminals

being concerned
and not sleeping well,

fearing of being uncovered.

I heard this story
that his landlady came

and saw over his shoulder

what documents
he has on his desk

and there was
the name "Eichmann. "

And she said, "Oh, Eichmann,
I know his parents.

They have their Electricity
Store just around the corner. "

Wiesenthal reveals that the transcripts
reached the Eichmann family in Linz.

So Eichmann
was entitled to a copy,

and Sassen brought this copy
to Linz, to Eichmann's brother.

And as far as we know,
he kept it in his desk,

where it remained
for quite some time

until it occurred to someone to
break into Robert Eichmann's house

and steal the document.

There's a possibility
that by this occasion

Wiesenthal received
one of these copies

since, I mean,
he was very well networked.

You had
Eichmann's handwritten notes.

You had 80 something pages,

so it was obvious
that these were real.

We didn't need tapes to
justify that they were real.

MOSHE LANDAU
Mr. Hausner, when did the prosecution
obtain this document?

Approximately…

It's hard to say…

it's hard to say.

- It's hard-
- Because the question is

what Your Honor calls the prosecution.

If Your Honor is asking me
when I obtained it?

Yes.

It arrived only three weeks ago.

But it arrived in Israel beforehand.

Please don't pressure me with questions.

Hausner dodges the questions

about how he got
the transcripts.

The evasiveness is calculated

As he begins to realize his
trial strategy may be starting

to interfere with the secret
Israeli nuclear agenda.

On the next episode of The Devil's
Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes...

Can Eichmann and Servatsius
find a way

to keep the transcripts
out of the trial

or will the court allow them
to be admitted as evidence?

Eichmann plays full risk
and is 100 percent sure

that the tapes
will never be heard.

Because he knows
what else is on these tapes.

In the meantime, Hausner
makes the historic decision

to call to the witness stand
Holocaust survivors...

So they can
directly confront Eichmann

with the horrors
he inflicted on them.

They came from Lida -
the Germans.

I turned my head,
he asked me whom to shoot first.

As Hausner presses to get
the tapes, he suddenly is confronted

with the ghost
of the Nuremberg trials.

And even more secrets
that the Israeli government

would rather keep buried
in the past.

Gideon Hausner's
great fear

was that quarrels amongst the
Jews would enter into this trial.

As the trial continues,
will Hausner be able

to overcome
these mounting obstacles?