Chapter One
Transcript – The Trial of Adolph Eichmann – Testimony:
A. Yes. I saw Eichmann and Slawik entering the toolshed. The
door closed. After that I heard terrible screams, beatings,
blows and crying.
Q. Did you identify the screams?
A. Yes - it was the voice of the boy who had been taken, and
whom we knew by the name of Salomon. These screams lasted
about 10-15 minutes - I didn't measure the time, but I
assume that it was so. Suddenly there was silence. And after
I didn't hear the shouting any more, the door opened and
Eichmann came out. I saw him, his clothing was dishevelled,
he looked wild, his shirt was sticking out - I noticed
stains on his shirt and I thought that these were
bloodstains. I didn't only think so, I knew, almost for
certain that these were bloodstains.
Time Magazine – June 2, 1961:
Araham Gordon, 34, described how Eichmann was personally implicated in beating to death a Jewish teen-ager accused of stealing cherries from an orchard: "The screams lasted about ten or 15 minutes, then stopped. The door opened, and Eichmann came out. He was a little disheveled; his shirt was sticking out, and I am almost sure that I saw bloodstains.
Of All The Trees In The Garden
Cherries, Herr Obersturmbannführer?
How many – a handful?
Any why?
Were you starving your workers?
Or was it hot
and they were tempting
and did he taste
even one?
And what could that boy
Salomon
have been thinking?
No matter
a rule broken
is a rule broken
And was
all it took
for blood-lust
to rise
and for you
to experience
once –
what your minions
would know
in millions.
“…the door opened
and Eichmann came out.
I saw him,
his clothing was dishevelled,
he looked wild,
his shirt was sticking out…”
Charnel house
or whore house -
Adolph –
did you enjoy yourself?
Or with your
accountant’s mind
were rules
the real pleasure?
Sunday, November 23, 2008
