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Israel Supreme Court judge who prosecuted Adolf Eichmann dies at 94

Gabriel Bach compiled evidence for the 1961 trial

February 21, 2022 15:46
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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: (FILE PHOTO) Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann stands in a protective glass booth flanked by Israeli police during his trial June 22, 1961 in Jerusalem. The Israeli police donated Eichmann's original handprints, fingerprints and mugshot to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial ahead of Israel's annual Holocaust remembrance day May 4, 2005 which this year also marks the 60th anniversary of the Nazi's World War II defeat in 1945. (Photo by GPO via Getty Images)

ByJosh Kaplan

1 min read

An Israeli judge with a distinguished career including the prosecution of one of the world's most famous Nazis has passed away aged 94.

Gabriel Bach, who himself was born in Germany, was part of the legal team that tried Adolf Eichmann for crimes against humanity in Jerusalem in 1961.

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Prosecutor Gavriel Bach at Eichman's trial in Jerusalem in 1961 (National Photo archive of Israel)

Bach's role on the prosecution team was as a state’s attorney who compiled evidence for the trial that led to Eichmann being hanged in June 1962. Eichmann's trial lasted several months and ended in him being convicted on all 15 counts and sentenced to death.

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