Eichmann: The Man, His Crimes, and His Trial

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When the leader of Iran swears to wipe Israel off the map, we can hear in his threat echoes of the voice of Gamal Abdel Nasser before the Six-Day War and, certainly, Adolf Hitler before World War II. An armed attack on the State of Israel, such as we witnessed last summer, is an attempt to strike a mortal blow to the heart of Jews all around the world. When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, British historian David Irving, and Northwestern University professor Arthur Butz claim that the Holocaust was a hoax engineered by the Zionists to create a Jewish State, these revisionists are also attempting to attack the State of Israel and the Jewish people, albeit on the intellectual and historical plane. Their lies are meant to deny the legitimacy of the Jewish State and Jewish history. While Irving and Butz were not in attendance at the recent Tehran conference organized by Ahmadinejad to deny the Shoah, the professors were certainly there in spirit.

Just as the Israel Defense Force responds to armed attack, we, as Jews, must counter those outrageous lies of Holocaust deniers with the truth we know so well: The Nazi genocide of the Jews is the most documented series of events--horrific events--in human history.

Not only do we have the testimony of Holocaust survivors and Allied liberators who witnessed the Shoah and its tragic aftermath. There is also the meticulous documentation of the perpetrators, implicating thousands of Germans and their collaborators in an almost successful attempt to wipe out European Jewry. Forty-five years ago, this Nazi paper …