Editing Holocaust denial (section)

====Trial of Adolf Eichmann====
{{main|Eichmann trial}}
In 1961, the [[Cabinet of Israel|Israeli government]] captured [[Adolf Eichmann]] in Argentina and brought him to [[Israel]] to stand trial for war crimes. Chief prosecutor [[Gideon Hausner]]'s intentions were not only to demonstrate Eichmann's guilt personally but to present material about the entire Holocaust, thus producing a comprehensive record.<ref name="Cesarani-2005">{{cite book |last=Cesarani |first=David |author-link=David Cesarani |title=Eichmann: His Life and Crimes |publisher=[[Vintage Books|Vintage]] |location=London |year=2005 |orig-year=2004 |isbn=978-0-09-944844-0 |pages=252, 254–5, 325–7}}</ref>

The Israeli government arranged for the trial to have prominent media coverage.<ref name=Birn-2011>{{cite journal |last=Birn |first=Ruth Bettina |title=Fifty Years After: A Critical Look at the Eichmann Trial |journal=Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law |year=2011 |volume=44 |pages=443–473 |url=http://law.case.edu/journals/JIL/Documents/(21)%20Birn_Darby.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203021540/http://law.case.edu/journals/JIL/Documents/%2821%29%20Birn_Darby.pdf |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |access-date=April 2, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Many major newspapers from all over the globe sent reporters and published front-page coverage of the story.{{R|Cesarani-2005}} Israelis had the opportunity to watch live television broadcasts of the proceedings, and videotape was flown daily to the United States for broadcast the following day.{{R|Cesarani-2005}}<ref name=Shandler-1999b>{{cite book |last=Shandler |first=Jeffrey |title=While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust |year=1999 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford; New York |isbn=0-19-511935-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/whileamericawatc00shan_0/page/93 93] |quote=The trial and the surrounding media coverage sparked renewed interest in wartime events, and the resulting increase in publication of memoirs and scholarly works helped raise public awareness of the Holocaust. |url=https://archive.org/details/whileamericawatc00shan_0/page/93}}</ref>