The Eichmann Trial: Fifty Years Later  March 27, 2011  NPR Staff
Author and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt.       Survivors Stand
Up  "There was a march of survivors, I would say approximately
100 survivors, who came into the witness box and told the story
of what happened to them. And people watched them and listened
to them and heard them in a way they hadn't heard them before,"
Lipstadt says.     But Eichmann's testimony, says Lipstadt,
illustrated not only that he was guilty, but how "enthusiastic"
he was about carrying out his orders.  "There would be times
when he would get a communique from the German Foreign Ministry
saying the Italians have contacted them and there's a Jew in
Vilna, or a Jew someplace else in a ghetto who's married to an
Italian Catholic ... and Eichmann would quickly rush to get the
man deported, sent to Auschwitz or hidden away so that he
couldn't be turned over to the Foreign Ministry and maybe
escape. He went after every individual Jew he could find,"
Lipstadt says.  One Man's Se