The Eichmann Show Page #6

- It is us who'd be letting you down.

Mr Hausner showing the witness

a suit of striped clothes.

Is that what you used to

wear, wear at Auschwitz?

Yes. This is the garb of those

who lived on this planet called Auschwitz.

If I am able to stand here

in this court before you as we tell -

we tell the tale of this planet.

If I, fall-out of that planet,

am able to be here at this time then -

Is he ok?

- He's a poet.

I believe with perfect faith that this is

due to the oath I have sworn to them there

the oath I have sworn to them.

They gave me this strength.

They gave me the strength.

What's Eichmann doing?

Could I ask Mr Dinur a few questions,

with your consent?

Go close on Eichmann.

Please listen to Mr Hausner and hear...

- Did we get that?

- No, we were on Eichmann.

President of Court, I'll have to stop

this session unless the witness recovers.

Mr Hausner, I do not expect this of course

to happen and I think we cannot continue...

Did you get it?

We got almost everything,

but I think we missed the collapse.

You missed the collapse? Jesus, Leo.

We might have got a couple

of seconds of it, but

it's impossible to anticipate

something like that.

- I'd have put money on it.

- F*** you, Alan. Get the f*** out.

Hey.

Gentlemen, would you

give us five minutes please?

Thank you.

Shut the door, Millek.

That was a stand-out moment, Leo.

Like someone crying out in the auditorium.

- Talking points, human drama.

- That's a real damaged life in there

- not a f***ing TV show.

- And a f***ing TV show. And. And.

I'm sorry if that doesn't sit

with your artistic sensibility

but while we're here on Israel's

dime that's exactly what it is.

Christ, you're supposed to

be filming the trial as a whole.

- But you're obsessed with Eichmann.

- I can't understand why you're not.

Don't patronise me.

Your job, your f***ing job

is to film what happens in that courtroom

not to conduct a personal

investigation into the nature of evil.

- Why can't it be both?

- Because one gets in the way of the other.

And that's not going to happen,

not on my production.

- Well, I beg to differ.

- I don't give a f*** what you beg.

I'm paying your wages, Mr Hurwitz.

Differ in your own time.

In Paris they were all deported

in the second half of August

and the beginning of September,

in the space of about two weeks

in convoys consisting of

one thousand children

and five hundred adults

taken from Drancy.

I saw them. They arrived in four

transports of one thousand children.

This live cargo would

be taken off the

trucks rapidly to make

room for other buses.

This was done swiftly and the

unhappy children, mixed up and scared

came down in groups quietly.

There were small children

of two, three or

four years of age who did

not know their names

and it was impossible to identify them.

We found girls carrying

disks with boys' names

and boys with girls' names on their disks.

Let me just ask you this, Mr Wellers.

In 1944 when you came to Auschwitz

did you then see any one

of these children alive?

No, I did not. There were four

transports arriving every few days

one thousand people in each

transport, one thousand children

two hundred adults on each

transport, and in all four transports

four thousand children.

There were many who died,

some en route...

I estimate the number of suicides

at about one hundred.

Want me to switch away?

Stay on Eichmann.

- Leo.

- Stay on him.

Alan, switch to the witness.

Come on, do something.

Leo.

- Leo, there's some people to see you.

- I'm not expecting anyone. Tell them I'm busy.

- Well, they want to see you.

- Just tell them I'm busy.

- They said you'd say that.

- Leo, would you just go? I got this.

We wanted to surprise you.

- Right. Right. How was your journey?

- Good.

- Did you enjoy flying?

- Sure.

- What?

- You look old.

I am old.

We were working there with those

'Rollenwagen' which we were driving.

- You entered the crematorium?

- Yes, I entered the crematorium.

We had to go there in order to

take the wood which was...

- To the witness. Take one.

- ...to be used for burning.

- We had to take...

- Number four, stand by.

Some of the wood to the camps from the

crematorium, when there was still time

and when it was very cold.

The kapo of the Sonderkommando

took pity on us and said

'Children, it's very cold

outside, perhaps you

can warm yourselves

in the gas chambers.'

The gas chambers were not operating then.

And you would go into

the crematorium to warm yourselves?

- So sometimes...

- Tommy?

- We would go to the...

- I'm fine.

Crematorium, or even to the

gas chambers where it was much warmer...

Is this all true?

Sometimes it would happen that

when we arrived at the crematorium...

He was the same age as you.

They said, 'You can't possibly go in

because there are people inside. '

And Eichmann just sits.

And Eichmann just sits.

Camera two, stand by.

Did you use ashes of human beings to

spread it on the roads?

- Yes.

- What for?

So that people could walk

on the road and not slide.

- So they do not slip in the camp?

- Yes, in the camp.

What I want is that single

spotlight directly on Eichmann

as he's watching the camp footage.

The rest of the auditorium

is completely dark.

That allows the audience

to observe Eichmann

- as he reacts to what he's watching.

- The audience or you?

Leo -

Bringing him face to face with

the visual consequences of his actions

- will finally make him crack, it has to.

- Leo.

Eichmann attended mass shootings

for the SS elite to show

that you could stomach

the most brutal bloodshed.

It was a badge of

ideological superiority.

How likely is it he's

going to show weakness now

- before his Jewish captors?

- Sitting alone in that chair

watching the worst atrocities

known to mankind

it'll be impossible for him

to deny his participation.

- Leo? Leo!

- What?

I'm taking Tommy to Greece.

- Why?

- I don't want him here.

- Don't you think he should see this?

- I don't want him watching this 8 hours a day

day in, day out

for God knows how much longer.

Which is what he will do,

because that's what you're doing.

Am I doing the right thing?

You think I'll get him?

- Look after him, won't you?

- Uh-huh.

I want to be honest with you, Leo.

I'm under instruction from Milton

to not talk about Eichmann on this trip.

- It's to give you a rest from the trial.

- Yeah, I understand.

- To give you a rest from Eichmann.

- I understand.

- What are you thinking?

- About Eichmann.

- Where do these people come from?

- Wherever they want to.

The Bedouin do not perceive

borders or governments.

They side with no one, threaten no one.

And they're left alone to roam freely.

Where do I sign up?

When you watch him, Millek,

what do you think of him?

A dog refusing to betray his master.

Till people see him react the way they do

to this testimony

they'll not fully understand that men,

not monsters, create fascists.

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