Adolf Eichmann during his trial in Jerusalem On April 11, 1961, in a converted cultural hall called Beit Ha’am in Jerusalem, the world witnessed an extraordinary reckoning with one of the darkest chapters of the 20th century - the Holocaust, in which six million European Jews were systematically murdered under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. Sitting behind a bulletproof glass booth was Adolf Eichmann, a senior SS officer who had served as head of Jewish affairs in the Nazi securi