During his trial, Eichmann received permission to write his memoirs.
His prosecutor, Gideon Hausner, advised then-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion not to allow the memoirs to be published. Instead, they were deposited in the state archives and all but forgotten until Eichmann’s sons requested them.
Even before the sons’ official request, Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s legal adviser Shimon Stein asked Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein for his opinion on the rightful ownership of the manuscript.
On Sunday, Rubinstein met with Stein, Holocaust researcher Yehuda Bauer, state archivist Evyatar Prizel, Deputy Attorney General Tana Spanitz and Justice Ministry attorney Allen Zisblatt to discuss the issue.
Rubinstein said he would make every effort to complete the legal and other investigations so that the manuscript can be published along with the accompanying commentary as quickly as possible.
At the same time, an Israeli lawyer whose father prosecuted Adolf Eichmann nearly four decades ago said he will oppose releasing the memoirs.
It would be dangerous to publish a war criminal’s lies, Amos Hausner said. “There cannot be two versions about something as horrible as the Holocaust.”