1960s Timeline

June 25, 1962 - An anti-Semitic attack on a girl university student was denounced today by the Argentine-Israeli Association, which urged President José Maria Guido (pictured) to act to stop an outbreak of anti-Semitic incidents. The police said three men seized the girl last week and slashed a swastika on her chest. One of the three was quoted as having said: “This is revenge. You Jews are responsible for Eichmann’s death.” Adolf Eichmann was abducted from Argentina two year

June 22, 1962 - A West Berlin court has sentenced Dr. Albert Filbert, 56 years old, a former colonel in the Nazi S.S., to life imprisonment for the mass murder of Jews and Russians during World War II. The court found him guilty of the death of more than 10,000 persons shot in the area of Vilna and Grodno in the Western Soviet Union in 1941. Men, women, and children were herded together by Nazi guards under Filbert’s command and put to death in mass shootings, the verdict sai

June 8, 1962 - The so-called “Wolf’s Lair,” the supreme command post of Adolf Hitler in what formerly was German East Prussia, has been preserved as a tourist attraction by the Polish Government. The command post, where the assassination attempt against Hitler took place on July 20, 1944, covers many acres of remote woodlands in the Masurian Lake district. The preservation of the “Wolf’s Lair,” from which Hitler intermittently directed his armed forces for almost four years o

June 1, 1962 - Adolf Eichmann (pictured in 1942) was hanged in Israel this morning just after midnight for the part he played in the murder of millions of Jews and others during World War II. The hanging was carried out in the Ramla Prison a few hours after the former Nazi’s final plea had been rejected by President Itzhak Ben-Zvi. Cold and unyielding to the end, Eichmann rejected an appeal by a Protestant minister that he repent. In the execution chamber, guards tied his ank

May 28, 1962 - Israel’s Supreme Court unanimously rejected today Adolf Eichmann’s appeal against his death sentence for a major role in the mass murder of 6 million Jews and others during World War II. The verdict meant the 56-year-old former Gestapo officer will hang unless he is successful in an appeal for mercy to Israel’s President, Itzhak Ben-Zvi. The five men on the high court said they were satisfied beyond a shadow of a doubt that Eichmann was a key man in the murders

May 16, 1962 - A West Berlin bank manager admitted today that, as a Nazi officer, he had ordered firing squads to shoot Jewish hostages. He then maintained that the number killed had been exaggerated. The bank official, Dr. Albert Filbert (pictured during World War II), 56, is the chief defendant in a trial of six former officers of the S.S. Elite Corps and the police. He is accused of mass murder. Filbert challenged the prosecution’s charge that his squad had murdered 10,300

Mar. 9, 1962 - A Jewish student who slugged George Lincoln Rockwell during a student forum in San Diego yesterday acted only on a sudden impulse and regretted the incident, an official of San Diego State College said today. The official, who declined to use his name, said that the student, Edward Cherry, had approached Rockwell on stage in reply to the American Nazi party leader’s offer to debate. But Rockwell pushed the student back, the official said, and Mr. Cherry “let go

Mar. 8, 1962 - George Lincoln Rockwell (right), leader of the American Nazi party, was slugged by a Jewish college student (center) today in San Diego, Calif. The F.B.I. then investigated a bomb threat against Rockwell. The Nazi leader was hit by a stiff right punch to the jaw during his talk from a stage at San Diego State College. Shortly after he left the campus, the bomb threat was made in a telephone call to American Airlines. “There’s a bomb on the Rockwell plane,” a vo

Mar. 3, 1962 - Three members of the American Nazi party were arrested last night and charged with wearing illegal uniforms while picketing a rally at New York’s Carnegie Hall sponsored by The Worker, a Communist newspaper. The three Nazi party members were arrested after the police had asked them to stop picketing the Seventh Avenue side of the hall while wearing khaki uniforms with Nazi armbands. They were identified as Seth Ryan, 23 years old; Anthony Wells, 24, and Paul Uh

Feb. 26, 1962 - A former S.S. (élite guard) sergeant went on trial in Stuttgart today, charged with the murder of 20 Jews during World War II. Twenty-six witnesses from the United States, Israel, France, Britain and Austria are scheduled to testify against the former Nazi soldier, Felix Landau (pictured in the 1930s), a 51-year-old interior decorator from Stuttgart. Landau is accused of having personally selected 20 Jews to be shot in July of 1941 in retaliation for the failu

Feb. 19, 1962 - Adolf Eichmann’s appeal of his conviction and death sentence will be heard by the Supreme Court in Jerusalem March 22, an announcement in Tel Aviv said today. Eichmann, a wartime Nazi officer, was condemned Dec. 15 by the District Court in Jerusalem. He was found guilty of seven counts of crimes against humanity, four of crimes against the Jewish people, and one war crime. The charges held him responsible for his role in the wartime murder of millions of Jews

Feb. 4, 1962 - George Lincoln Rockwell (pictured), head of the American Nazi party, told a jeering crowd today that he had the right to make a speech anywhere and any time. He arrived in Lewisburg, Pa., with nine associates and dared local and state policemen to arrest him. Before a crowd of several thousand, mostly Bucknell University students, he began a speech that was interrupted by boos and cries of “Go home!” As the boos mounted, he suddenly declared, “There’s no use tr

Feb. 3, 1962 - A proposal to revoke the Virginia charter of the American Nazi party stirred debate in the state’s House of Delegates this week. Critics questioned whether the measure would set a precedent and whether it would suppress free speech. In debate on Thursday, Delegate C. Harrison Mann Jr., an Arlington lawyer and Marine Corps veteran of World War II, assured them on both points. “It does not,” said Mr. Mann, “limit their operations or suppress free speech. They can

Jan. 23, 1962 - George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi party, has applied for a permit to hold a rally in New York’s Union Square on April 20, Adolf Hitler’s birthday. A Parks Department spokesman said today that Rockwell had applied for a permit several days ago. Commissioner Newbold Morris said today that he was studying the application. Last year, the state Court of Appeals upheld Rockwell’s right to speak in New York. The city had denied him a permit in 1960

Jan. 22, 1962 - Karl Wolff (second from left), a former Nazi S.S. general who was a prominent figure in German-Allied peace negotiations in 1945, is being held on suspicion of crimes against the Jewish people. The Bavarian Justice Minister said Wolff was suspected of complicity in the mass murder of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe. He is said to have deported as many as 300,000 Jews to the Treblinka death camp, where they were murdered. The 62-year-old general, once Chief of Sta

Dec. 15, 1961 - In Israel today, Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death by hanging for his role in the killing of 6,000,000 Jews during World War II and for other war crimes and crimes against humanity. The three judges of the Jerusalem District Court delivered the sentence at 9:20 a.m. (2:20 a.m., Eastern Standard Time). Eichmann, looking very pale, was led to his glass cage at one minute to 9. He remained standing stiffly and arrogantly while Presiding Judge Moshe Landau acc

Dec. 14, 1961 - An Berlin audience viewed the world premiére of the American film, “Judgment at Nuremberg.” A capacity audience of 1,200 attended the showing at the Congress Hall, only 700 yards from the communist border wall that divides Berlin. Many sat spellbound through the 170-minute performance. There were gasps when documentary shots of Nazi concentration camps appeared, and some viewers broke into spontaneous applause during a scene in the second half when Spencer Tr

Dec. 12, 1961 - West German newspapers were unanimous today in approving the verdict against Adolf Eichmann (pictured in 1942) by an Israeli court yesterday. None of the lengthy editorials devoted to the proceedings in Jerusalem registered surprise over the judges’ findings. In a typical comment, the Süddeutsche Zeitung of Munich said: “Apart from the accused, there was hardly anyone in the courtroom or outside who could have any doubt about the verdict. Whether Eichmann or t

Dec. 11, 1961 - Israeli judges rejected one by one today the arguments that Adolf Eichmann hoped would gain some mitigation of sentence for him. The former Nazi was convicted in Jerusalem of crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity, and miscellaneous war crimes. As the judges pressed on with the reading of their lengthy judgment, observers believed that Eichmann’s chances for escaping the death penalty were fading. Eichmann’s main hope lay in his assertion th

Dec. 10, 1961 - Adolf Eichmann was convicted in a Jerusalem court this morning of crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and membership in hostile Nazi organizations. The former Nazi colonel faces death by hanging. A few minutes after the court opened, Presiding Judge Moshe Landau coldly ordered Eichmann to the stand. “The court finds you guilty,” Judge Landau said. He then ordered the prisoner to be seated while he began reading the massive 20