Eichmann trial in Israel sparked panic in Adenauer’s government

BERLIN – (EJPost) When Israel in 1961 opened the trial against Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, the German government under Chancellor Adenauer (90% former Members of the Nazi-Party NSDAP), came into tremble. A. Eichmann How secret documents show: The german Foreign Office was afraid, that during the process could appear incriminating evidence against “officials of the German administration of federal and state”. According to information from the magazine “Der Spiegel”, the German intelligence service should find out, what Eichmann testified in the Israeli interrogations about “public figures of the Federal Republic of Germany.” This is apparent from previously unknown Eichmann files of the German Federal Government, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The German intelligence service should find out, what Eichmann testified in the Israeli interrogations about “public figures of the Federal Republic of Germany.” According to the CIA the German Federal Government “was on the brink of hysteria”, because they feared for their reputation in the world. The German Federal Intelligence Service records indicate, that a group of former SS officer and NSDAP-Member, (some of Adenauers gouvernment), had helped Eichmann to escape from Germany. German and American intelligence services knew where Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was hiding eight years before Israeli agents apprehended him, according to documents released in January 2011. More...