The Eichmann Show Page #3

Oh, be my guest.

Then I can tell you how difficult it was

to hire you when everyone said don't

precisely because you'd been blacklisted.

Jesus, you kidding me?

Look, I know there were easier names

you could have gone to.

- Good names.

- Mhmm. But not the best name.

We'll talk to them about Millek

but right now our focus has to be

on the judges coming, first thing.

Without them we're screwed anyway.

I'm going to go back in.

Milton. When the judges come tomorrow,

bring them straight to the courtroom.

Don't mention the cameras.

We will sell this.

It's the judges.

They'll be here in two minutes.

- They're on their way. Ready?

- As ready as we'll ever be.

Right, gentlemen, as you know, the scale

of this operation is unprecedented.

But as I said to the Prime Minister,

this trial is a unique global event.

Work has clearly taken place.

We are here to re-examine the cameras.

But you do not appear

to have prepared for us.

The cameras are not present.

Gentlemen, would you follow me?

- Alan, could you run the VT please?

- Of course.

Gentlemen, as some of you may know...

we will be sending nightly video

packages to over thirty countries.

The scale of this operation is...

You were filming us? From where?

I don't understand.

We've taken the cameras

out of the court and hidden them.

But how they will see in?

We've rebuilt the walls of the courtroom

to create space to hide our cameras.

We've built slits into the walls

which the cameras can track along

giving a range of positions

from which to film.

The slits are covered with chicken wire

to reflect the courtroom lights.

This enables the camera to see

through the wire into the court

while still being masked from sight.

We hope that this has addressed

all of your concerns.

If the judges say no cameras

a second time?

There won't be a third.

Well, even to get this far -

No, there's no consolation prize, Eva.

I'll be the guy who dropped

the Eichmann show.

They'll hang me out to dry.

I'll have to send you out

to work on the streets to support us.

Get dressed. Wait with the children.

- What?

- Just do it.

Who is it?

Milton, what's happening?

- Who's there?

- David Landor.

I hope I'm not disturbing you.

Please...

Leo? If you're asleep - wake up. Leo!

- What's happening?

- Read.

'Where there is no publicity,

there is no justice.'

'It keeps the judge himself

while trying under trial.'

'The security of security is publicity.'

We did it. We're going to film the trial of

Obersturmbannfhrer Adolf Eichmann

Nazi Party number 889895.

SS number 45326.

Christ, Leo, this is really happening.

It's great.

I left Eva in the bath.

Right.

- See you later.

- Bye.

I'm standing in front

of the building where

in only a few hours' time

what has been described as the

trial of the century will begin.

And the eyes of the world

will fall upon Adolf Eichmann

the Nazi responsible for organising the

mass murder of six million European Jews.

It isn't only Eichmann who will be on trial

over the next few days and weeks

the state of Israel will also

be under intense scrutiny

as it attempts to mount

a fair trial of the

man tasked with destroying

the Jewish people.

This city, this country,

the entire world,

is under a state of

heightened anticipation.

The stakes could not be higher.

In televising this trial

the state of Israel hopes to show

many of its own people across the world

the full horror of what

befell those of their

faith who lived in Europe

through the Nazi era.

Israel hopes to impart

to a new generation

an understanding of the cunning cruelty

employed by the Nazis

to lure their people to their deaths

through the lie they were being

sent to work camps.

And it is also seeking to impress

on the consciousness of humanity

that these crimes, which have no precedent

in the entire history of man on earth

were committed in an enlightened age -

on Jews this time -

but could be committed

against others in the future.

To show the world that in the end this

is a crime that affects every one of us.

Alright, gentlemen.

This is it. Moment of truth.

What are you thinking

at this precise moment?

Of everything that could go wrong.

Alright, gentlemen,

rehearsal is over.

Camera three, ready. Take three.

Camera four, ready.

Stay on the bench with the judges.

Camera four, ready.

On Eichmann. Take four.

Adolf Eichmann, rise.

You are accused before this court

according to the indictment

which includes 15 counts...

Wide on the auditorium.

Adolf, son of Adolf Karl Eichmann

is accused here by the first count.

Nature of offence:

Crime against the Jewish people.

Particulars of the offence:

The accused together with others

during the period of 1936...

- Take two.

- ...to 1945

caused the killings of millions of Jews

in his capacity as the person responsible

for the execution of the Nazi plan

for the physical extermination of the Jews

known as the Final Solution

of the Jewish Problem.

Here ends the first count

brought against you.

Go close on Eichmann.

Adolf Eichmann, do you plead guilty or not

guilty to count one of the indictment?

In the spirit of

the indictment, not guilty.

And now the most important trial

of the 20th century begins.

In the spirit of the indictment,

I am not guilty.

Crime against humanity.

In the spirit of the indictment,

I am not guilty.

Take four. Take two.

Do you plead guilty or not guilty

to count 15 of the indictment?

In the spirit of the indictment,

not guilty.

At the conclusion of the afternoon's

sessions the important job begins

of distributing the tapes of the day's

proceedings around the world.

Copies of the tapes are

required by broadcasters

in New York, London,

Paris, Berlin, Sydney.

Then to the shipping,

not by ship but by air, of course.

It is sent by one of the many airplanes

departing daily from Lodz Airport

ninety minutes

fast driving from Jerusalem.

Then directly onto the

television screens in all our homes

in this exciting new age of mass media.

When I first arrived I had

doubts that we'd make

the beginning of this

day, let alone the end.

But thanks to your hard work we did it.

And I very much appreciate it.

Just how tired and

exhausted you feel right now

is an indicator of

how big the job in hand is.

We have a tremendous responsibility.

In showing this trial to the world

we invite them to ask not only

how Eichmann did it, but why.

Great work today

and a toast to good work.

- Yeah, to good work.

- Good work.

I know a song, it goes like this,

do you know it too?

Oh yes I do, yes I do,

it goes one, two, three four.

Whenever I see you outside of the

control room you're always looking around.

What are you looking for, Leo?

I'm just trying to understand this place.

It's one and a half million people

trying to stay alive.

Don't you think it's ironic that

if it wasn't for Eichmann and the Nazis

we wouldn't even be

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