Bureau 06

Description: Bureau 06 was a police team set up to investigate and bring charges against Adolph Eichmann. There are interviews with former members (and surviving relatives) of the group. Interspersed are archive footage, original audio clips of the interrogations and staged reenactments of the interrogations and the weekly psychiatrist-mandated retreats to the country for the interrogators.

Merits: References are made to the then prevalent Israeli taboo about the holocaust and the survivors for not sufficiently resisting their persecution, attitudes that the trial helped to change. The film highlights the trauma suffered by the lead interrogator, a holocaust survivor himself. Some of the most interesting comments were about the difficulties of amassing compelling evidence linking Eichmann with the crimes. As one of the team points out, the survivor witnesses and witness statements had no legal value but were judged useful to ‘engage the public’.

Rating: Reference to violence.

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