For David Ben Gurion the Eichmann trial had a crucial importance educating a generation of young Israelis and immigrants from the Middle East who fifteen years after the Holocaust had no direct exposure  or experience  with the Nazi crimes.   Given a voice to the victims of the holocaust  would establish a firm relation to the Jewish past and suffering and create a new Jewish man, an Israeli  who would never again submit to  oppression. Shaping a  collec...

As a recipient of the German equivalent of the Oscar, The Lola, and several other top awards, Lars Kraume’s fact based feature film documents the investigative work of Bauer as the attorney general, who tracked down Adolf Eichmann overcoming all obstacles that German society posed in the 1950s. Bauer was appointed state attorney general in 1956 by the Governor of Hessen, Georg August Zinn, who had struggled with Bauer against the Nazi regime. Bauer was a Jewish lawyer and that pursued hi...