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QUOTE:
“No one can demand that you be neutral toward the crime of genocide.
If there is a judge in the whole world who can be neutral toward this crime,
that judge is not fit to sit in judgment.”
AUTHOR:
Gideon Hausner (Hebrew: גדעון האוזנר, 26 September 1915 – 15 November 1990)
was an Israeli jurist and politician. Between 1960 and 1963 he served as Attorney
General, and was later elected to the Knesset and served in the cabinet.
Hausner is most
widely known for heading the team of prosecutors at the war crimes trial of Adolf
Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961. Hausner is generally credited with exposing
the Holocaust
to the world in bold cross-examinations of Eichmann. His judicial skill also
set the precedent that the defense "I was only following orders"
is not valid if such orders are wholly criminal and illegal. The prosecution
succeeded in proving Eichmann's guilt, and Eichmann was found guilty on all
charges, including crimes against humanity and crimes against the Jewish
people. He was sentenced to death.
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