Court TV Premieres a Chilling Story of Crime and Punishment On May 11 in a Crime Stories Original Production: The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann.NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--April 21, 1999-- Documentary Chronicles World's First Televised Genocide Trial Court TV presents a one-hour documentary on the controversial capture and dramatic trial of Nazi SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann Noun 1. Adolf Eichmann - Austrian who became the Nazi official who administered the concentration camps where millions of Jews were murdered during World War II (1906-1962) Eichmann, Karl Adolf Eichmann . As the director of the Gestapo's Office of Jewish Affairs during WW II, Eichmann executed Hitler's "Final Solution," Nazi Germany's systematic extermination extermination mass killing of animals or other pests. Implies complete destruction of the species or other group. of the Jewish people. The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann airs on Tuesday, May 11th at 10:00 p.m./ET. It features original interviews with the Mossad agents responsible for Eichmann's kidnapping, trial witnesses and camp survivors along with compelling archival footage of the events leading up to, and including, the first-ever televised trial. Eichmann is known the world over as Adolph Hitler's "minister of death" for his frightening role as a human exterminator during the Holocaust. More than fifteen years after transporting six million Jews Six Million Jews their deaths a testimony to Nazi “Final Solution.” [Eur. Hist.: Hitler, 1123] See : Genocide to their deaths, Eichmann stood trial for crimes against humanity, sitting encased en·case tr.v. en·cased, en·cas·ing, en·cas·es To enclose in or as if in a case. en·case  ment n. in a bulletproof glass Strictly, bulletproof glass would be glass that is capable of stopping most manner of bullets fired at it. Such glass cannot currently be made in any usable thickness (if at all), so what is loosely called bulletproof glass is, within the industry, referred to as booth. From Israel, a state that did not exist during Eichmann's reign of terror Reign of Terror, 1793–94, period of the French Revolution characterized by a wave of executions of presumed enemies of the state. Directed by the Committee of Public Safety, the Revolutionary government's Terror was essentially a war dictatorship, instituted to , spectators finally heard eyewitness accounts of unimagined horrors. The epic trial made history. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Kristian Berg wrote and produced this memorable documentary. With original footage recorded in Israel, Argentina, England and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Berg traces Eichmann's life from his early days as a failed travelling salesman to his ruthless direction of the Holocaust, and finally, his final days as a fugitive and his powerful trial in Jerusalem. Crime Stories is Court TV's cornerstone primetime documentary series. Airing nightly at 10:00 p.m./ET, the series features dramatic and compelling true stories about crime, criminals and law enforcement. Court TV, a 24-hour basic cable network, provides a window on the American system of justice through distinctive programming, which both informs and entertains. As the first and only cable network dedicated to crime and justice, Court TV broadcasts live trials by day and crime and justice programming at night. A service of Time Warner Entertainment and Liberty Media Corp., Court TV (www.courttv.com) is distributed to 34 million households. |
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