Eichmann Tried For War Crimes

The site for the trial of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg undergoes reconstruction and meticulous preparation to receive the Allied court which will sit in judgement, as well as the Nazi war-lords (Goering, Von Ribbentrop, Streicher, and many others) who must be housed for the duration of the trials.

Thousands of Jewish war veterans and members of many other organisations march in a demonstration against the anti-Semitic persecutions of Hitler's regime.

83-year-old Michael Seifert, a former Nazi guard who has lived in Canada since 1951, landed at Rome's Ciampino airport before dawn on Saturday to serve a life sentence for war crimes. An Italian military tribunal convicted Seifert in absentia in 2000 for torturing and murdering at least 17 people while serving as a guard at a prison camp in the northern city of Bolzano between December 1944 and April 1945.

Tokyo, Japan - Japan's Number One war criminal, Hideki Tojo, Nipponese war chief at the time of Pearl Harbour, goes on trial for his life before an international tribunal. Many others face the death sentence for war crimes.

The war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor resumed on Monday after a six-month delay. Taylor is accused of supporting a rebel group that killed, maimed and raped thousands of Sierra Leoneans during a war that lasted 11 years and ended in 2002. Many victims hold him responsible for what happened. The amputees especially, who remain a poignant reminder of the barbaric nature of the conflict, will be following his trial closely. An AFPTV report.

In a massive demonstration, 50,000 Jews assemble in London's Hyde Park to urge cessation of trade with Germany in retaliation for Hitler's persecution of Jews.

The Khmer Rouge's "Brother No. 2", who is said to be the mastermind behind the brutal regime's genocide, is due to appear in a Cambodian court to appeal his detention.

With the destruction of the Temple, the Romans have destroyed the only place on earth, according to Biblical Law, where Jews can worship God. The Judaism of priests and sacrifices is lost forever, and rabbis struggle to reinvent the religion of Moses and David. They are forced to work during a period of incredible bloodshed and turmoil. In 132 A.D. Jewish zealots rise against Rome's legions in the Bar Kochba rebellion, forcing them to withdraw from the region. The Romans return with a vast army and slaughter nearly 600,000 Jews. They change the name of the region from Judea to Palestine and ban all Jews from Jerusalem. Desperate to start new lives, many Jews flee to distant lands, only to face another challenge, a breakaway form of Judaism called Christianity. As it rises to political power, Christianity becomes deeply anti-Semitic. But Judaism survives, and in doing so, preserves for all its unique gifts, including the rights of the individual and the rule of law: gifts that will change the Western world forever. 

A prime seaport and submarine base harbouring Germany's largest war plants, Hamburg is attacked by tons of bombs delivered night and day by the 8th Air Force. Aerial photographs show seven square miles of the Nazi war centre flattened.