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Recording the Eichmann interviews

Witness by BBC

Jun 1, 202610:19Society & Culture

In the 1950s, Dutch journalist Willem Sassen recorded hours of interview with the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann about his involvement in the Holocaust, before his capture in Argentina by Israeli agents. Willem's daugh...

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Recording the Eichmann interviews is an episode from Witness by BBC. In the 1950s, Dutch journalist Willem Sassen recorded hours of interview with the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann about his involvement in the Holocaust, before his captu...

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