Aside from demonstrating that Israel felt responsible for the entire Jewish People, and accordingly would bring a mass-murderer to trial for an act that had been perpetuated before the State was formed, and not on its turf, extracting him from a third country half a world away, Israel's prime minister had an educational agenda that would be accomplished through the trial.

Israel's youth had never encountered the Holocaust and were appallingly ignorant and derisive about the subject. How could Jews be so passive about their own deaths, they wondered, and they treated survivors with scorn instead of with the respect and sympathy that they deserved.

The Eichmann trial changed all of this as the entire country listed in rapt attention as 110 witnesses took the stand and explained in meticulous detail what the Nazis perpetrated and what they had suffered. As Israel's lead prosecutor said in his opening statement that he does not stand alone, with him are six million accusers.

The trial was well-received around the world as an embodiment of historical justice, although it surprisingly also revealed the banality of evil.

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