"This is the story of the lives of two men... who fought each other in one of the most fascinating trials... in modern history." "The trial took place in QB VII..." "Queen's Bench courtroom number seven... of the Royal Courts of Justice in London." "There, Sir Adam Kelno, a refugee European doctor... and concentration camp survivor... brought suit for libel against Abraham Cady..." "World War II ace... and world-famous American novelist." "As we have seen, for almost 30 years... they lived their lives along parallel lines... each unaware of the other until they came into explosive contact... in our time in the courts of London." "In their lives, in their conflict... in this tragedy is the heart of the story of a generation... that had a rendezvous with destiny." "The Holocaust, Abraham Cady." "The testing of the Jewish people... from the ovens of Jadwiga to the Sinai and the Suez." "Research material." "Contrasts." "The building and survival of the state of Israel." "Where the port of Ashud now stands." "Ashud, 1 969." "Victims from the Holocaust turned back from the Holy Land, 1 94 7." "Tel Aviv street, 1 920." "The same Tel Aviv street, 1 968." "The first school in Jerusalem, 1 9 1 1." "The Hebrew University on the same site, 1 970." "Municipal Council Building, 1 9 1 2." "Israeli Parliament, Jerusalem, 1 968." "An early defender of the Jewish homeland, 1 9 1 1." "An Israeli paratrooper, 1 970." "Come in." "First review of The Holocaust appeared in today's paper." "How was it?" "It's great." "Fantastic." "How would it be if I weren't your father?" "Pretty good, unless you feel saying..." ""It should be added to the books of the Old Testament"... is going just a bit too far." "You're kidding." "I brought the paper, I'll read it." "Quote:" ""A chronicle in heroic terms." "A literary effort unparalleled in our generation." "A massive historical novel told through unforgettable characters... comparable in this century only to--"" "now, get this-- "War and Peace. "" "End quote." "Not bad, huh?" "Not bad." "You think the foreign reviews will be as good?" "The Jewish critics like a book by a Jew about Jews." "I'm not gonna wonder what the London Times says." "They were probably hard on Genesis when it first hit the bookstores." "Well." "Let's drink to the reviews, huh?" "There's something else we should drink to." "What's that?" "I became an Israeli citizen today." "And yesterday, I got my wings." "Full circle." "Well." "This one... is for your grandfather." "If he were here he would kvell, as he used to say." "Stay for dinner." "Fine." "Dad?" "Yeah?" "I'm glad you're my father." "Sit down, Mr. Graham." "Young for a doctor, aren't you?" "I'm an intern." "My father's the doctor." "Good morning." "Take your trousers off, please." "Left knee, recurrent adenoma." " The pain goes on." " Thank you." "Liverpool." "Sit down, please." "Tell me, Mr. Graham." "What did the dock workers clinic tell you about this?" "They told me to come back." " Did you?" " Thought it might go away." "Oh, yes, very sensible." "Things either go away, or eventually they kill you." "You thought you'd wait and see, huh?" "Stephan, draw this fluid away, would you?" "I'm sending you to an orthopedic surgeon." "But meanwhile, you must stay off it." " I've got to go to work, you know." " Yes, yes, yes." "I'm putting you on disability." "Now, look here." "I'll show you." "All right, look." "This is the part you damaged." "They'll cut out the bad part and sew what is left of this piece here." "Now, if they find too much of the damaged part... then they'll put in a piece of plastic." "Mind if I say something?" "As long as it's not too much, because it's almost time for lunch." "My mates down at the docks... said the one thing about Sir Adam is he'll tell you exactly what's what." "Then he'll explain it to you so you can understand it." "He's a real gentleman, that one." "That's what they said, anyway." "Well, I'm very flattered, Mr. Graham." "You tell your friends to write to the National Health Service... 'cause I could do with a raise." "You take that." "Good-bye, and you be careful now." "Thank you." "He's right, Dad." "What?" "You don't deliberately make it mysterious like other doctors do." "I don't think I can stand all these kind words." "I hope I'm rewarded with something besides your mother's cabbage for lunch." "Come on." "Angela?" "Where are you?" "What's the matter?" "You haven't set the table." "Haven't you fixed lunch?" "This" "What?" "There's a part in it about the Jews in the concentration camps." "This is what it says." ""It was in the camp of Jadwiga that the Germans... conducted horrendous experiments on Jewish prisoners... for the purpose of developing methods of mass sterilization... of so-called inferior races." "In the notorious Barracks Five, the surgery was run... by Dr. Adam Kelno... who carried out a thousand or more surgical experiments on Jews... without the use of anesthetics... using them as human guinea pigs."" "My God." " I can't believe this." " How could they dare, Dad?" "How can anyone write that after you've been tried and cleared here in London?" "Who wrote the book?" "Abraham Cady." "A Jew, and probably a Communist as well." "I doubt he's a Communist." "They're against the Jews these days." "How would he even hear about the trial in the first place?" "What kind of trial?" "There's nothing to be ashamed of." "The Communists tried to extradite me... as a war criminal." "The British government tried me, found that I was innocent... and refused to give me up." "And this was before we went to live in Kuwait?" "This is why we went there, to get away from the notoriety." "Well, if Dad was acquitted" "It didn't stop that man from libeling your father, did it?" "If it's libel, then Dad stands to get an enormous amount of money... for damage to his reputation." "If it's libel." "I mean, if it can be proved." "But it isn't easy." "He's right." "This man isn't just being careless, you know." "He wrote it deliberately." "Probably has dozens of liars like himself ready to back him up." "Why pick on you?" "He mentions nobody else, you know." "Because I'm Sir Adam Kelno." "I'll bring him more publicity, more than he can have any other way." "I'll be helping to sell his book." "Perhaps you won't if you just let it go by." "How many people do we know who read books at all?" "If nobody reads it, if nobody opens the book... it is there in print my whole life!" "Everything I've worked for destroyed in an inch of type!" "I'm sure he will be made to retract." " By who?" " By your lawyer, by yourself." "Privately." "No." "That is not good enough." "I must expose him publicly." "What are you doing?" "I'm going to phone Robert Highsmith... the man who handled the extradition case." "I'm going to stop Mr. Abraham Cady once and for all... never mind how long it takes or how much it costs." "Sir Robert, thank you for seeing me so prompt." "You're more than welcome." "Twenty-six years." "Two knighthoods." "This is my associate, Mr. Chester Dicks." "It's a great privilege to meet you, Sir Adam." " Drinks, gentlemen?" " Please." " At queen's counsel." " Well, we can use them there." "You know, I had hoped... foolishly, I suppose, that since this is an open-and-shut case" "There is no such thing as an open-and-shut case." "However, libel is so taken, I doubt it can be defended." "And considering the eminence of your position..." "I'm sure Mr. Cady's settlement will be substantial." "I don't want a settlement." "I want to be cleared of this in open court... so that everyone knows now." "But if we secure you compensation and a public apology... would you still insist on a trial?" " Absolutely." " You must realize that this book... is not only a runaway best-seller... but the author was a very highly decorated RAF pilot during World War II." "He passes as a romantic figure." "He'll have the press with him all the way." "Look, I have to prove my innocence... not only for the sake of my son and wife, but also for myself." "You have it backwards." "You don't have to prove anything." "Mr. Cady has to prove your guilt." "There is no way he can do that... unless he perjures himself and finds witnesses who will perjure themselves." "We can take care of that." "You're absolutely certain... there is not the faintest basis of fact... in anything he implies in that book?" "Look, please." "If there is any doubt, if you have any suspicion... then I must leave and go elsewhere." "I'm not your confessor." "I'm your counsel." "We have to ask that of every client." "I'm sorry." "You must understand my position." "I have not led an easy life, Mr. Dicks." "Sir Robert knows." "It is late for a blow like this." "Please, sit down." "Let us consider our first move." "Mr. Cady, this lawsuit." "Does it make you regret anything you said about Dr. Kelno?" "None." "Kelno is guilty, period." "Would you mind repeating that for Eurovision?" "Not at all." " Adam Kelno is guilty, period." " Thank you." "Do you expect the current anti" " Jewish position... of some of the Communist states will adversely affect your defense?" "I believe in the goodwill of good men everywhere." "Do you consider Communists good men?" "There are good men and bad men in every political movement and nationality." "Do you consider Dr. Kelno a bad man and yourself a good man?" "I don't know." "We may both be bad men." "But my badness has never included the forceable castration... and sterilization of innocent men and women." "Ladies and gentlemen, that's enough for today." "Thank you for coming." " What's the matter?" " You do know what you're in for?" "One would have to induce the Polish government... to open Kelno's files to us." "Two:" "Find the survivors of Kelno's experiments." "And three:" "Persuade those people... to testify in open court that they are sexual cripples." " So?" " None of it may be possible." "We'll see." "Margaret's been in touch with me." "She wants to help." "She still has it for you, you know." "The way we've been making love... over the transcontinental telephones since '67?" "Didn't do the trick, apparently." "She did marry." "Lord Norman Wydeman." "She finally got her duke." "And lost him." "He left her a fortune." "She means that kind of help." "David, I couldn't do that." "Don't be proud." "You'll need all the help you can get." "Kelno won't settle." "You or him." "One of you goes to the wall." "Okay?" "And then some." "Come in." "How do you get over five years?" "Well, you've become the kind of writer you wanted to be... and I've become Lady Wydeman." "Whatever happened inside us" "I read The Holocaust." "You know how good it is." "You can tell me about it for an hour or so." " Can I get you something?" " No, thanks." "I have the eerie feeling that no time has passed at all." "I wanna kiss you, and I'm afraid." "So am I." "What are you gonna do?" "Probably wind up kissing you." "Fight it." "Walk away." "David Shawcross talk to you about how I feel?" "He talked to me about the money your husband left." "That's out." "Norman was a great scientist." "It would be as much for him as for you." "That's why I'm furious at you-- for marrying him." "You were a telephone." "True." "I've taken the liberty of doing some advance research." "The Polish government may not care much for anti-Communists like Kelno... but they haven't learned to love the Jews either." "So unless some pressure can be brought... you won't find any help there." "I'm gonna have a scotch." "You sure you don't want anything?" "Yeah, I'm sure." "Well, of the two Polish doctors that worked with Kelno..." "I had discounted Dr. Lotaki as a witness." "He's an old Communist." "But the other one, Dr. Tessler... he's a refugee and a Jew." "I've learned he's here at Oxford." "Weren't there women doctors who took care of Kelno's victims?" "Yeah." "Dr. Parmentier?" "She's a Nobel Prize winner." "She'll carry a lot of weight." "A psychiatrist living in Israel." "Still works with the survivors of Barracks Five." "That's my next step." "Go over to Israel and open up with her." "I should've thought that your first step... would be to get counsel to represent you." "You need the best legal mind in England." "I'll take a shot at it." "Who's that?" "Tom Banniester." " As my barrister?" " Why not?" "He represented the government in Kelno's extradition hearing back in the '40s." "Since then, he's been in the Cabinet." "He has his eyes on 1 0 Downing Street." "He'd never risk a case with the political implications of this one." "Well, he might for me." "How do you propose to do that?" "By appealing to his better nature." "His baser instincts." "Tom's in his '60s and he thinks he's Oliver Cromwell." "Well, I'm 53, and I'm sure I'm the prophet Isaiah." "I still have plans for us." "That's good." "Once every five years isn't overly excessive, is it?" "You're a darling girl, Margaret, but you're incredibly transparent." "Oh, really?" "Since I fear you didn't invite me down here to seduce me" " Seduce you?" " Of course." "What man ever seduced any woman?" "I'm forced to the conclusion there must be something you want of me." "The Kelno case." "And your connection?" "Abraham Cady." "Oh, yes." "I had heard your names linked." "You are familiar with the trial?" "Oh, come on, Margaret." "You know perfectly well... that the last time Kelno surfaced, I represented the government." "This time, I want you to represent Abe Cady." "It's impossible." "Why not, Tom?" "Too chancy." " Afraid to lose?" " Of course not." "No, it's-- Too many political implications." "The Poles, the Germans, the Jews." "It drags up too many old hatreds." "And hatreds are to be avoided by all politicians." "By anyone." "Leave it be, leave it be." "Why start that all over again?" "The Germans murdered 1 2 million men, women and children... and six million of them were Jews." " I know." " When you finally know that... that human beings really did this to each other... then you feel guilty just because you're a human being too." "You've got to do something." "Tom, please." "All right." "Thank you." "Very hot." " Any bread?" " I forgot it." " What?" " I forgot the bread." "I'll get it." " What is it?" " Lamb stew." "Hello?" "Who is it?" "Just a moment, please." "Sir Robert." "I'm sorry to disturb you at home..." "I'm sorry to disturb you at home... but we've just been informed that Tom Banniester... has agreed to represent Abraham Cady." "Have you had any second thoughts about making an out-of-court settlement?" "Then would you have any objection if we very confidentially... felt out the ground, just in case... it might prove advantageous for you to deal with Cady?" "I'd appreciate if you didn't make any further contacts with him." "Sir Adam, we are prepared to go to the limit with this... but as your counsel I must be absolutely certain... this is what you want." "Yes, that's right." "Very well." "Good-bye." "Good-bye." "What was all that about?" "They can't seem to understand I can't allow Cady to go for a settlement." "But in a case like this, you can insist on your public apology." "That's not public enough." "You could insist on it being just as public as you want." "Why am I being questioned in my own house?" "Neither of you seem to understand how monstrous a lie this is." "Adam, all I'm saying is what you must know yourself-- a long court case would be a terrible drain on us all." "And if you lost, it would destroy us financially." "What do you mean, if I lost?" "Legal technicalities can knock out the best of cases." "Where did you study law, may I ask?" " Please sit down and eat your lunch." " I don't want any lunch!" "Look, we know how you feel." "You seem to assume this is a personal thing between you and Cady." "He's never met you, doesn't mean you any harm." "He just made a mistake." "You seem to be very understanding of Mr. Cady." "I understand that you want revenge." "But I know that revenge can be just as damaging to the victor... as it is to the loser." "I don't mean to be arrogant, but I think you should settle this... once and for all before it makes you ill." "Obviously, neither of you understand why I have to do this." "No, I do not understand." "And what's more, I have a terrible feeling you don't understand yourself." "Isn't this where the Chagall windows are?" "Yes, sir, in the hospital synagogue next to Dr. Parmentier's office." "Well, I'm no legal mind, Mr. Cady... but I confess I do not understand... why you value my people as witnesses." "Not one of them could identify Dr. Kelno... as the surgeon who destroyed them... any more than I can or Dr. Vescari can." "We won't ask them to identify him." "We want them to testify that Dr. Mark Tessler... witnessed their surgery... because Tessler was there and he can identify Kelno." "And you think it's right... to subject these people to the traumas of the past... to bring it all back to them?" "Why did you, a non" " Jew, leave France and work here?" "A country that may soon be at war again... among people with whom you shared horrors... that you must want desperately to forget." "Because I do not want to forget." "I do not want anyone to forget ever." "Otherwise, in another country with other people... it might happen again." "My father said that a long time ago." "And I say the same thing now." "You didn't come here out of pity for the survivors." "You're a psychiatrist." "You must know your own inner motives." "You came here to make moral sense-- a crusade-- out of what, unless it's remembered and memorialized... can only be an obscene and senseless experience." "You have no right to allow Kelno to take away from that." "You have no right in memory of the people... that he and the other animals tortured and killed." "I have no right." "The people themselves have no right." "I want them." "And more than that I want you, Dr. Parmentier." "I want your testimony." "I'm sorry." "A psychiatrist has no right... to cry in front of her patient." "But I'm not a patient." "The Holocaust has made us all patients, Mr. Cady." "The world was collectively sick in those years... and it still is." "I'll do as you say." "Thank you." "Where are we going?" " QB VII." " What?" "It's the courtroom." "Queen's Bench Seven." "Is it true Polish witnesses who were imprisoned with you... at Jadwiga Concentration Camp will testify... against the statements made about you by Abraham Cady in his novel?" "I'm deeply sorry that..." "I am the cause of their having to relive the horror of that time." "If Abraham Cady would make some sort of financial offer outside of court... would you stop pursuing your case against him?" "Cady's descriptions of my medical practice as a prisoner of the Germans... are totally false and libelous." "I hope to secure a public apology here in an open court." "Be careful." "Of what?" "Have you any intention of apologizing to Sir Adam for your attack on him?" "None." "This is one Jew you're not gonna castrate, Kelno." "You have no dignity, Mr. Cady." "Silence." "Be seated." "Proceed." "Kelno versus Cady." "Shall I swear the jury in, my lord?" "Please rise." "Take the books in your right hand." "You shall well and truly try the issues... joined between the parties... and a true verdict give... according to the evidence, so help you God." "My lord, this is a a libel action... between Sir Adam Kelno and Mr. Abraham Cady... contained in a book called The Holocaust." "In this case, I appear for the plaintiff." "This is an action for damages for libel." "A libel, I suggest, as damning as has ever come before an English court." "We're gonna be asked to take ourselves out of the comfort of London in 1 972... for what we are concerned with... is the nightmare of a German concentration camp..." "Jadwiga, in Poland... which existed almost three decades ago... against the background of the most incredible hell ever created by man." "It was in the camp in Jadwiga that the Germans... conducted horrendous experiments on Jewish prisoners... for the purpose of developing methods... of mass sterilization of so-called inferior races." "In the notorious Barracks Five... the surgery was run buy a doctor Adam Kelno... who carried out a thousand or more surgical experiments on Jews... without the use of anesthetics... using them as human guinea pigs." "I submit that it is difficult to imagine... a more defamatory or libelous statement." "In a libel action, the plaintiff has to prove three things." "First:" "Did the defendant publish the words in question?" "He did." "Second:" "Do the words refer to the plaintiff?" "In his pretrial statement, the defendant admits they do." "Finally, are the words defamatory?" "We would have to prove that, except the defendant admits quite freely... the words are deliberately defamatory." "Technically, my case is over." "I could say to the defendant's counsel, " Now it is your turn." "Defend yourself, if you can."" "However, I will not rest on that." "I intend to call forward Sir Adam Kelno... so that you may judge for yourselves the character of this man... and therefore the extent to which his reputation has been damaged... and the degree to which he has been libeled." "I call Sir Adam Kelno." "On which Bible do you wish to be sworn on?" "Roman Catholic." "All right, repeat after me." "I swear by Almighty God... that the evidence I shall give... shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." "What is your full name?" "Adam Kelno." "Thou shall not bear false witness." "Sir Adam's history is known to most." "It is sufficiently inspiring to suffer in no way through brevity." "As a Polish patriot, he was imprisoned in Jadwiga in the summer of 1 940." "He remained there for five years... serving his fellow inmates as a prisoner doctor." "As a refugee from Communist Poland... he was, at the end of the war, permitted to settle here." "The Polish Communists then petitioned the British government... to deport him for trial as a war criminal." "The government determined the charges against him... were baseless and refused to grant his extradition." "Thereupon, Sir Adam, fearing the continued harassment... of his Communist persecutors... took up a position in the then British protectorate of Kuwait." "Here, he devoted himself to the welfare... of the primitive Arab tribesmen who roam the desert." "Over the years, his contributions in medicine and in science... to these backward and disease-ridden people... were so great that he was knighted by the Crown... for his achievements." "He is now... despite the eminence of his position... practicing not in Mayfair... but in a National Service clinic among disadvantaged citizens." "This is brevity?" "Sir Adam, I must take you back to the summer of 1 940." "What were the conditions of medical practice in Jadwiga... as compared with ordinary medical standards?" "They were abhorrent." "But they changed, did they not?" "Why was that?" "When the Germans invaded Russia... they had to quadruple the production of their war material." "They had to organize their labor system... whereby the workers were used up and murdered... when they became weak and ill." "Now, you see, they had to prolong the time of their usefulness... in order to increase production, so they built a hospital." "Staffed by whom?" "Myself and other prisoner doctors." "Without supervision?" "No, we were watched over by SS orderlies... under the command of an SS doctor..." "Dr. Colonel Adolf Voss." "How far was the extermination center from the hospital?" " A mile." " You could see it constantly?" "Yes, I could see it and I could smell it." "Was there anything you could do personally... to save these people who had been chosen for extermination?" "At the selection... the SS orderlies would paint a number across the victim's chest." "We would wash off the number and paint the same number... on a patient who had died during the night." "That sort of thing." "When you did this, did you take into consideration... the national or religious origin of these prisoners?" "No, of course not." "Were there other methods of killing them other than the gas chamber?" "Hanging, shooting by firing squad." "Or just beaten to death, and sometimes the use of phenol injection." "What is that?" "The phenol injection is in the heart, which brings death within seconds." "Were you ever ordered to give a phenol injection?" " Yes." " Did you?" " I refused." " Were you punished for refusing?" "I was taken to see Colonel Voss... to see if I would be of any use to them before they killed me." "Did you know Dr. Voss personally?" "No, I managed to avoid him until this time." "Why did you stay away from him?" "Because he was conducting the experiments." "What kind of experiments?" "Sterilization." "You see, they were trying to find a fast and inexpensive way... to sterilize the conquered people of Europe... so that the master race... as they called themselves, could dominate the next generation." "And what method were they trying at that time?" "Primarily, heavy exposure to X ray... of the female ovaries... and, of course, the male testicles." "At that time, did you know the purpose... of these X ray experiments or the method used?" "At what time did you come to know this?" "Dr. Voss summoned another Polish surgeon..." "Dr. Lotaki... and told us that we were to operate on special patients." "What was your reaction to that?" "At first, I asked him what sort of operations." "He told us we would extract and remove dead sexual organs... that had been destroyed by X ray." "Did he threaten you... tell you what would become of you if you refused?" "He said that we would be gassed." "It was vital to his career, and his orders came from Berlin." "You had earlier, under Voss' orders... refused to inject phenol." "Did you consider refusing to do this now?" "Well, the situation was entirely different here." "The patient's sexual organs were already useless." "Voss made it quite clear that untrained SS orderlies... would perform the surgery themselves if we had refused." "So it would have been butchery." "And it was then you decided to submit to Voss?" "We called a meeting of the other prisoner doctors... and we all concluded that... in order to save further surgery and death to these other people... it would be better for us to perform the operations ourselves... than let it be handled by SS orderlies who were untrained." "Do you say you spoke to all the other prisoner doctors?" " All except Mark Tessler." " Why not Tessler?" "Because he was a Communist... and already suspect of collaboration with the Germans." "Later on, he actually did work with Voss... on the sterilization part of the experiments." "Just one moment." "Sir Robert..." "I suggest you caution your client... that he is not to characterize Dr. Tessler... or any other." "I was driven from Poland and accused in England... because of the lies of the Communists." "And still, they are trying to conspire against me." "This is the reason I am here-- to put a stop to it." "My lord, obviously this calls for another objection... but I will not make one at this time." "Very well." "However... in future I suggest... a degree of reticence, Sir Adam." "Adhere to the actual issues of this trial." "You may proceed." "How many times would you say you removed dead testicles and ovaries... to prevent their excision by unskilled SS orderlies?" "Fifteen or twenty times." "And Dr. Lotaki?" "More than likely the same." "How many operations of this type could be performed in one single session?" "One, maybe two at the most." " But not a dozen?" " No." "Or hundreds?" "Of course not." "Did Dr. Tessler ever come into Barracks Five while you were performing surgery?" " No, never." " Never?" "Never once did he see you operate?" "Dr. Tessler never saw me operate." "Approximately how many operations of every kind... did you do during your five years' imprisonment?" "I would estimate at least 1 0,000." "And of that 1 0,000... at the very most, say, two dozen were the amputation of dead sexual organs?" "Correct." "You are aware it is part of the defendant's defamatory statement..." " that you did not use anesthetics?" " That is entirely false." "Will you please explain to us... exactly what you administered and how it was done." "Well, general anesthetic was unavailable." "So I used spinal injections as the next best thing." " Did you have someone administer these?" " No, I always did them myself." "Please tell us exactly what your procedure was." "Well, first I gave a pre-injection of morphia... as an anesthetic to deaden the general area, and then the spinal." "Did you in any way pride yourself upon being able to operate quickly?" "No, I certainly did not." "Surgery must be performed with infinite care... and as slowly as necessary." "Could you always adhere to this rule in Jadwiga?" "In Jadwiga... so much surgery was needed that I trained myself to work fast... but never, never so fast as to endanger a patient." "How long would this type of operation take?" "Between 1 5 and 20 minutes." "Do you recall any complications?" "Yes, postoperative involvement in these cases was somewhat worse... because of the trauma of losing a sex gland." "But the patients were so happy to be alive... they were quite cheerful." "Castration can be fun." "No one died of these necessary operations." "What an awful man." "Because of your care and skill and postoperative attention?" "Yes." "Sir Robert, aren't you rather leading your witness?" "My lord... the defendant's libel of Sir Adam Kelno... hangs on the accusation of performing unnecessary operations." "We wish to make a denial of this defamation crystal clear." " Proceed." " Sir Adam... did you at any time in Barracks Five... in the performing of surgery ever remove other than a dead sexual organ?" "Never." "You are absolutely certain?" "I'm absolutely certain." "Were records kept of these operations?" "Yes, I insisted on accurate records." "I felt it important because... there should never be any doubt of my behavior later on." " In what manner were they kept?" " In a surgical register." "Would this be every operation?" "And signed by you?" "Who had these records?" "Our medical clerk." "I forgot his name." "Do you know what became of this register?" "No, I have no idea." "The camp was in chaos when the Russians arrived." "I wish to God we had it here, because it would prove my innocence." "The law does not require you... to prove your innocence." "You're the plaintiff here, not the defendant." "I thought your book... was a stupendous piece of literature." "Thank you, Dr. Tessler." "And now, we have to act out the epilogue." "I'm afraid so." "Tell me exactly what you want to know." "Were you there when Kelno operated?" "Many times." "Is there any way... we can prove that Kelno willfully collaborated... with the Germans on these experiments?" "There was a journal kept by a Polish prisoner... we used as an orderly." "A man named Sobotnik." "It recorded everything... the way the Germans do." "And Kelno made entries after surgery and signed them." "Where is this journal?" "We tried to find it when the Russians liberated us." "It was gone." " And Sobotnik?" " Gone too." "I hate to say it, but without that journal..." "I think Kelno may win his case against you." "Yes." "Is there anything you can remember about this Sobotnik... even if you felt it was unimportant?" "When I was hiding in London..." "I heard that a Polish agent named Zaminski... was looking for me as a witness." "He had got to me through Sobotnik." "So 25 years ago..." "Sobotnik must have been alive somewhere in Poland." "Zaminski is now chief of their internal security." "If you can get to him" "Yes." "Well, we'll try." "Now I'll let you get back to your work." "I'm sure someone will contact you to take your deposition." "Then how long will it be until I'm called?" "I'm afraid I can't say." "You are our most important witness." "Not until the end of the trial, I'm afraid." "I've heard you haven't been feeling well." "The sooner the better." " Good-bye." " Good-bye." "But you don't seem to understand, Margaret." "I agree people do come to ambassadors for favors" "By the dozens." "But they are usually old friends or benefactors... who are at least members of the same political party." "My father is an old friend." "Ask him to come in, please." "You're certainly his daughter." "This is Lady Wydeman." "Mr. Landau is normally our deputy cultural attaché." " How do you do?" " I'm delighted to meet you." "Tell me, are you familiar with the Kelno-Cady trial?" "Just from the newspapers." "Tell him." "You do know there was an attempt to extradite Kelno after the war?" "The evidence against him was gathered by a man... called Igor Zaminski, some sort of Polish intelligence agent." "We'd like to find him." " Name mean anything?" " He won't be difficult to find." "He's chief of their Internal Security Bureau now... their equivalent to the FBI." " Can he be approached?" " Certainly." "What do you want of him?" "We're trying to find a witness, a man called Egon Sobotnik." "He kept the records in Kelno's surgery in Jadwiga." " You've had no luck?" " None, and we're pressed for time." "You want one of our people to go and see Zaminski?" "It's up to the lady." "Abe Cady will go himself." "It's the most important thing of all." "Does this step on anyone's toes?" "It's a big favor you're asking, whoever goes." "Which they will want returned." "Well, it all keeps up employment in the intelligence business." " Is that it, sir?" " Think it'll work?" "Up for grabs." "Good-bye." "Thank you." "Sir Adam... would you be kind enough... to tell us the exact circumstances... in which you escaped from the Germans?" "I've already explained." "The camp was overrun by the Russians." "But were you in the camp then?" "No." "Where were you?" "I was ordered to a clinic by Colonel Voss." "It was a clinic, was it not... devoted to the care of German naval officers' wives?" "Yes, that's right." "They made him go there, for God's sakes." "He knows that." "And that is where you were when the camp was liberated by the Russians?" "Yes, but I was a prisoner, nevertheless." "Yes, of course." "Did any other prisoner doctors leave Jadwiga... to work in private German hospitals?" "Yes." "Dr. Lotaki." "Did he also perform operations in Barracks Five... in connection with Voss' experiments?" "He did what he was ordered to do." "Was he ordered to remove human reproductive organs?" " Yes, he was." " And he did that?" "And he also left to work in a private hospital?" "Yes, and I object to your attempts to connect the two." "Yeah, undoubtedly." "I bet you're anticipating me." "Now, tell me." "Did you wear prison clothing in the private clinic?" "German officers did not want their wives... treated by a man in concentration camp stripes." "I was given a suit of clothing." "I must object to what is blatantly a fishing expedition." "Yes." "Mr. Banniester... what are you suggesting?" "Please, make your point." "I'm suggesting that you cooperated with Voss to work your passage." "In the first place, you were a physician for prisoners." "Yes." "Then you were put in charge of a large medical complex." "Yes, under German control." "And finally, you became a doctor to German officers' wives." "Against my will." "I suggest that you and Dr. Lotaki... the only two prisoner doctors ever to be released from Jadwiga... were released for your cooperation with SS Colonel Dr. Voss." "No, there is no connection between the two at all." "You said that Voss... was experimenting on sterilization through X ray." "Now, Sir Adam... is it in fact" "Was not the removal of the radiated sexual organs... the second stage in the sterilization experiment?" "I'm sorry, you're not making sense to me at all." "No?" "I'll try to clarify matters." "Let's take it step by step." "These people were all Jews?" "Yes, they were." " Young Jews?" " They were young, yeah." "Exactly when were they brought into Barracks Five for your surgery?" "After they had been subjected to lethal doses of X ray." "Therefore, as you have testified... you were removing dead glands." " Yes." " And you removed them... to prevent untrained SS orderlies from doing so... and possibly killing the patient?" "So you operated as a doctor... fully convinced that what you were doing was for the patients' welfare?" "Yes." "You never said to any of these men..." ""If I don't get yours, the Germans will get mine"?" "I deny that libel on my soul." " You never said that?" " Never." "You have stated... that you gave spinal anesthetic." "Yes, because general anesthetic-- was not available." "And you have testified..." "you gave pre-injections of morphia?" " Yes." "To save their feelings and reduce shock?" "Yes." "I suggest, Sir Adam... that your patients were fully awake... during your surgery, as no morphia had been given." "I said that I gave them morphia." "Yes." "Well... was Voss present during these operations?" "And you knew what he was doing?" "Well, you understood... that he was experimenting on healthy, potent men and women." " Yes." " And as you testified... you knew that he was conducting these experiments... under orders from Berlin... to find a practical, cheap method of sterilization?" "Yes." "Why did Voss order... the organs removed after irradiation?" "I don't know." "Do you suppose it was for the patient's welfare?" "Well?" "Was it?" "I operated for the patient's welfare." "I suggest, Sir Adam... that neither you nor Voss... nor anyone in the world at that time... knew whether X ray could or could not sterilize a sex gland." "They were experimenting to find out." "That is what you testified." "Isn't that correct?" "Every doctor knows-- knows the harmful effects of excessive radiation." "But if this were known... if the sterilizing effect of Voss' X rays could be predicted... then why was he experimenting to find out what the effects would be?" "Ask Voss." "Voss is dead." "He killed himself to avoid trial as a war criminal." "That is why it is necessary for me to ask you." "What was done with the removed organs?" "I don't know." "Were they not in fact taken to a laboratory... to ascertain whether or not they were still potent?" "Perhaps." "Was not that the only reason for removing them?" "I have explained repeatedly about the untrained SS orderlies!" "So you have." "Nevertheless, I suggest that... the removal of the sexual organs was the necessary second step... in an experiment to determine the sterilization power of X ray... and that you were fully aware of this." "That is a lie." "I knew none of it!" "But when these unfortunate people had been X-rayed... that was not the end of the experiment, was it?" " I wasn't doing the experiment!" " I must object, my lord." "Mr. Banniester is clearly attempting to imply Sir Adam was a willing accomplice." "He was a prisoner." "He didn't volunteer for this work." "The nature of my question is absolutely in order." "I am suggesting that this surgery... was part and parcel of the experiments." "And therefore, experimental surgery." "I am suggesting that Sir Adam performed these operations... not to avoid the butchery of the orderlies... but willingly to provide laboratory samples for Voss' pathologists." "I suggest Sir Adam need never have performed these operations at all... and did so in order to work his passage." "Continue." "Now, Sir Adam, in every instance... you removed only one irradiated sex organ-- one testicle, one ovary." " Correct?" " That is correct." "Why?" "Did you believe that was, in some way, for the patient's welfare?" "It does not matter what I believed." "Voss told me what to do." "Precisely." "He told you to remove one... so that he could see if the X ray had done its job." " Yes." " And then if it had not... he would dose the remaining gland with even more X ray." "Then you would remove that one and see if that had done its job." "You knew all that and its experimental purpose in full detail." "No, I never knew it." "Then why did you not remove both sex glands at the same time?" "I tell you, I don't know!" "Voss watched over me!" "Is it not a fact that Voss told you and Dr. Lotaki on several occasions... that if you performed these operations, you would be taken out of Jadwiga?" "My lord, Sir Adam is clearly tired." "May we recess?" "Yes, he most certainly is." "Do you concur, Mr. Banniester?" "By all means, my lord." "I suppose if Israel responds, she'll be guilty of aggression." "Can't the United Nations do something to help that situation?" "Nobody's gonna help Israel." "They have no oil." "I thought Tom was brilliant." " But it didn't work." " How can you say that?" "Kelno can be shown guilty of medical ignorance." "He should've taken both glands." "He was understandably afraid to stand up to Voss... but Tom didn't establish willful cooperation with Voss' experiments." "Will he ever be able to establish it?" "That depends on Mark Tessler's testimony... and whether I find Sobotnik in Poland." "I'm concerned why Sir Robert didn't have you clarify... why you excised only one gland at a time... before Banniester surprised you with it." "I was not surprised with it." "Did I seem upset?" "Yes." " Why did you?" " Why did I what?" "Medically, I mean, take out one at a time?" "I'll be outside." "Excuse me." "He's been questioned all morning." "Don't you think he's had enough of it?" "Sir Adam, you testified that between yourself and Dr. Lotaki... you operated on perhaps... two dozen Jews who'd been irradiated." "That is correct." "Who do you suppose operated... on the remaining 97 6 persons referred to in this indictment?" "I don't know." "Perhaps it was not done." "If it was, perhaps Tessler did it." "I suggest that you and Dr. Lotaki... performed these unaccounted-for operations." "I suggest that you only brought this case... because you knew that the medical orderly Sobotnik... and his register had disappeared-- that it was your word against Tessler's." "My Lord, I take the greatest exception to this." "You cannot allude to a register that does not exist." "Mr. Banniester has asked Sir Adam how man operations he performed... and Sir Adam has told him." "I apologize, my lord." "Do you believe that speed... in a mass sterilization experiment... would be essential to the German purpose?" "It may have been." "Could it be possible that these operations... were performed in front of Dr. Voss... to demonstrate to him just how quickly it could be done?" "I never operated with such speed as to harm a patient." "Were you not in fact proud... of the speed with which you could remove Jewish testicles... and want to demonstrate it to Dr. Voss?" "My lord, again, my objection is obvious." "My client has already testified that he did not use undue speed." "Mr. Banniester, please." "You are distressing Sir Adam through innuendo." "Let us return to the time in 1 943... when Dr. Mark Tessler arrived... in Jadwiga Concentration Camp." "Now, you have said that... you gave him a wide berth... that you steered clear." "That is correct." "In Dr. Tessler's deposition... he alludes to frequent contact with you." "He is lying." "He also makes a statement that on one occasion in November of 1 943... you performed 1 4 operations in one session." "Eight males were castrated or had one testicle removed." "Six females had ovaries removed by you on that same occasion." "There was so much commotion that the SS sent its medical clerk, Egon Sobotnik... for Dr. Tessler to come over to Barracks Five... to keep the patients calm while you operated." "Again, a lie." "Tessler never came into Barracks Five while I operated." "Further, Dr. Tessler has stated that you did not give the spinals-- that they were not given in the operating theater... and that no pre-injection of morphia was given." "Again, a lie." "And Dr. Tessler did not argue with you... about not washing your hands between operations?" "He was not there." "Or using the same instrument without sterilization?" "I'm tired of repeating it." "He was not there." "If Dr. Tessler was not there, he couldn't have pleaded with you... about the lack of antiseptics, the speed... the fact that no general anesthetic was given... or indeed anything else." "Again and again, he was not there ever." "I used morphia." "I used a spinal." "I administered them myself." "I had to operate quickly to prevent pneumonia... or heart collapse or God knows what." "How many times do I have to repeat this?" "Until everything is quite clear." "Why do you suppose Dr. Tessler told all these lies against you?" "Because he's a Communist!" "He himself conspired with the Germans in these experiments." "He performed abortions on the camp prostitutes... and on the wives of German officers." "I suggest when you learned... that Dr. Tessler and other prisoner doctors... would be here in this court as our witnesses... that you invented a total fiction against him." "My lord, this is sheer harassment." "You're on a very fine edge, Mr. Banniester." "Thank you, my lord." "Do you deny that you struck a patient on the operating table... and called her "a damned Jewess"?" "Of course I deny it." "Again, it is my word against Tessler's." "As a matter of fact, it's got nothing to do with Dr. Tessler's word." "It is the word of the woman you struck... who is alive and on her way to London to appear in this court." "Silence!" "Mrs. Czerny, what was the nature of the surgery..." "Sir Adam-- that is, Dr. Kelno-- performed on you when you were a prisoner?" "He removed a cancerous tumor from an ovary." "Did the cancer return?" "It did not." "Was Dr. Kelno in any way... rough or stern in his treatment of you?" "He was a saint." "Are you Jewish, Mrs. Czerny?" "No, I'm not." "Did Dr. Kelno say anything to you during the operation?" "No." "I was unconscious." "You were not still awake after the spinal injection?" "No." "Dr. Kelno told me... he would put me to sleep so I would feel nothing." "And when I awoke, it would be all over." "Thank you." "You may step down, Mrs. Czerny." "I now call Mr. Anton Novak." "Sir Robert, will you address... your next witness to the same point?" "Yes, my lord." "How many more such witnesses are you going to call?" "Four." "I can appreciate your wish... to impress on the jury... the kindness of Sir Adam as a physician." "That is my point." "No one contends that Sir Adam was not kind to Poles." "We are suggesting, however, that when it came to Jews... his kindness was of a different order." "We are prepared to address ourselves to that point with our final witness." "However, he is of such importance that I will agree... to excuse the other witnesses and go directly to him." "That's very... generous and cooperative of you, Sir Robert." "Please do." "I call Dr. Stanislas Lotaki of the Polish People's Republic." "Ain't that a hit in the head." "How on earth did they dig him up?" "I don't know." "How do you wish to be sworn, Doctor?" "I will take a civil oath." "I am a Communist." "I have no religious beliefs." "I, Stanislas Lotaki... declare and affirm" " Is everything all right?" " I hope not." "There's a messenger outside." "He wants to see me." "... shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." "Now we're gonna see who's telling the truth." "Dr. Lotaki, what is your present position?" "Dr. Lotaki, what is your present position?" "I am chief of the surgical section of the Polish Medical Union." "Were the Germans aware you were a doctor when they made you a prisoner?" "They were not." "I identified myself when I saw... how desperately the other prisoners were suffering." " All the other prisoners?" " They were all suffering." "I'm asking you if you discriminated in you mind... between Jewish prisoners and the others." "We were all in the same situation." "It would have been unthinkable to discriminate." "What were your duties?" "I was assigned to Dr. Kelno." "He was the chief of the prisoner doctors." "Did you find he ran a proper establishment?" "Under the circumstances, it was quite remarkable." "Did you find he discriminated against Jewish patients?" "Of course not." "Do you recall a day when SS Colonel Dr. Voss... ordered you to perform surgery on victims of his experiments?" " I will never forget it." " How did you respond?" "I refused." "He then told me I would be gassed... and that untrained SS orderlies would do the surgery." "He's been rehearsed, don't you think?" "No, I rather think this is his own performance." "Why was Dr. Tessler omitted?" "We believed him to be collaborating with the SS... in performing experiments and performing abortions for them." " Was he a Communist?" " Yes." " Were you?" " Yes." "And yet you turned against him?" "All Communists are not good... just as all capitalists are not bad." "How many operations did you perform?" "Twenty or so." "Well, after your own surgery, did you assist Dr. Kelno in his?" "Occasionally." "What type of anesthetic did he administer on these occasions?" "Spinal blockage with a preliminary injection of morphia... to comfort the patient." "Dr. Lotaki, essentially... you and Dr. Kelno performed the same services for Dr. Voss." "Do you know that after the war, your government... sought Dr. Kelno as a war criminal?" "Yes." "And yet you yourself were not accused." "I had done nothing wrong." "You were a Communist living in Communist Poland... and therefore readily available to be accused if you were suspected." "Yes, I would say so." "Now, this is a matter which may be rather delicate for you." "Dr. Kelno was an anti-Communist... living in exile in a foreign country, in that way no way available." "You both functioned in exactly the same way, yet he was accused." "How do you account for that?" "Dr. Kelno was accused exactly... because he was an anti-Communist and an exile." "He was accused by a Stalinist regime... that was prepared to go and did go to any lengths to remain in power." "And it did not end, and Poland did not regain her freedom until Stalin ended." "So you feel that Dr. Kelno did no wrong... and was, in fact, the victim of political persecution?" "I do." "And I would not have made this journey for him if I had thought otherwise." "Thank you, Dr. Lotaki." "No further questions, my lord." "I've just had word with an old friend, the American ambassador." "You've been cleared to go to Poland." "Will Zaminski help me there?" "When he heard Lotaki was coming to testify, he agreed to help you." "That concludes the case for the plaintiff, my lord." "Tell Tom to stretch things out." "Thank your friend at the embassy for me." " Hello?" " This is the embassy's operator." " I have Jerusalem for you." " Right." " Lieutenant Cady's on the line." " Good, good." "Hello, Dad?" "Ben, I'm glad I got you." " Are you all right?" " Are you all right?" "The Arab attack has been all over the newspapers." "Well, we've survived worse." "I've been worried." " Will there be reprisals?" " There always have been." "Be careful." "We have to." "We don't have that many planes." "You know what I mean." "I'll be as careful as you were." "That's what I mean." " How are things going with you?" " We can't seem to nail him." "I'm on my way to Poland now to sew up... a piece of physical evidence we think might do the trick." "Listen, you be careful." "Right." "Wait." "What, son?" "I love you." "Dr. Parmentier... your work is well known to many... but in case some here are not familiar with it... would you tell His Lordship and the jury of your background?" "I am a consultant psychiatrist... for Hadassah Hospital in Israel." "We are currently concerned with a number of the survivors... of the medical experiment in Barracks Five." "My lord, I intend first to take Dr. Parmentier's testimony." "But the doctor has brought with her a certain number of survivors... of these experiments in Barracks Five." "I propose to place them in the witness box... with your permission, my lord." "Dr. Parmentier, would you prefer to be seated?" "Thank you." "Why have you become an Israeli citizen?" "I admire courage." "I thought it was right to try to do something for these people... to make up for what we had done to them." "We?" "The so-called Christian world." "You are not Jewish?" "I am a Roman Catholic." "Where did you work in Jadwiga?" "In the medical faculty with Dr. Kelno." "When did you last see Dr. Kelno?" "This morning in the corridor." " Did he speak to you?" " No." "Did you know Dr. Tessler?" "Of course." "Would you tell my lord and the jury... of your confrontation with Dr. Voss?" "The sterilization... of the prisoners was not confined to their bodies." "Voss, under Hitler, tortured their minds." "To what purpose?" "They wanted to find a method... by which they could train ordinary people... to become robots for the German Command." "Will you describe these experiments to us?" "My lord, I am going to object to this line of questioning." "I don't see to what point it is relevant." "It is certainly relevant that a German doctor, Voss... was conducting psychiatric experiments on prisoners... and that he called in a prisoner doctor to assist him." "And that doctor's response... with all due respect to my learned friend, is highly relevant." "Yes, I think it could be relevant." "Please proceed, Dr. Parmentier." "The room had two chairs." "In front of each chair was a panel of switches... which threw an increasingly higher voltage... to the person opposite." "In the booth was Voss." "He had a panel of switches." "You witnessed this, Dr. Parmentier?" "Yes." "Then the prisoners came in." "There was a mother and daughter." "They were strapped to the chairs." "Voss ordered the girl to give her mother 50 volts." "If she didn't do this... he would punish her for not doing so." "Did the daughter do as she was told?" "Not at first." "So, what happened?" "Voss shocked her... and she screamed." "Then he ordered her again... to give her mother 50 volts." "This time... she hesitated... until she was getting... nearly 200 volts... before she obeyed him out of fear." "How much voltage did the daughter give on order?" "She killed her mother." "In front of you?" "In front of me." "And what happened to you then?" "I became irrational... and was moved to Voss' office." "There he showed me graphs and charts and records." "What he was trying to find, he said... was the breaking point in people... so they would become robots for the German Command." "After a while... he told me that when the initial shock had passed..." "I should become fascinated with the work." "He said... it was extraordinary for a psychiatrist... to have human guinea pigs." "He ordered me to work for him." "And what did you answer to that?" " I refused." " You refused?" "Certainly." "I refused." "And what happened then?" "He said he would send me... to the gas chamber." " Did you work for him?" " No." "Weren't you afraid?" "I knew they were so short of prison doctors... they wouldn't dare get rid of any of us." "Tessler was constantly resisting, but he was still alive." "My lord" "So you were not gassed... for refusing to cooperate in these experiments?" "I'm here in London." "What is your full name?" "Ella Shuman." " Do you have any children?" " I'm unable to have children." "What work did you do in the camp?" "For four months, I worked in the factory." "We made parts for field radios." "After four months, what happened?" "I was taken to Barracks Three of the medical compound." "Did you know what Barracks Three was all about?" "I was put with girls who had been X-rayed and operated on... so it didn't take me long to know why I was there." "Would you describe Barracks Three to my lord and the jury?" "Well, the women were downstairs... and the men upstairs." "The far side of the barracks was caged off... and held about 40 girls... who were being experimented on mentally by Dr. Voss." "Most of them were driven insane... so they were mumbling and screaming all the time." "What happened to you... when you were removed from Barracks Three?" "Well, the SS guards came... and six of us were moved to Barracks Five... and put into a room with an X-ray machine." "Then, the orderlies took off our clothing... and one at a time... a plate was put on our abdomens and our backs." "I was X-rayed for about ten minutes." "And what was the result of that?" "Well... a dark spot formed on my abdomen... and I vomited very much after it." "Where were you taken then?" "I was rolled into the surgery and strapped on the table." "You were totally conscious?" "Yes." "Two men with masks stood over me." "One wore the uniform of an SS officer." "Suddenly, the door burst open... and another man came in... and began to argue with the surgeons." "Then he came to my side... and sat near me... and stroked my forehead." "What did this person say to you?" "Courage." "The pain will soon pass." "I will take care of you." "Do you know who this person was?" "Dr. Mark Tessler." "The defendant's counsel, Mr. Banniester... repeatedly suggested it was Dr. Kelno who performed the operations... you have described on yourself and on your fellow prisoners." " Do you know this to be a fact?" " It is a fact." " How do you know?" " Everyone knew." " But you've stated the men were masked." " Yes." "You said one was dressed as an SS officer." "You do not contend that Dr. Kelno was in the SS?" "Then he could not have been Dr. Kelno." "Which of the other two was Dr. Kelno?" " I told you, they were masked." " Precisely." "Therefore, you cannot identify either man." "Therefore you can't identify Dr. Kelno." "Do you know that the gentleman sitting there is Dr. Kelno?" "Yes." "But you cannot say he was present in the surgery in Barracks Five?" "You say you were in great pain... there were struggles in the waiting room, people were being beaten." "Would you say that you were in... a hysterical state when they wheeled you into surgery?" "I was, yes." " You were hysterical and confused?" " Yes." "Yet you remember all this in great detail almost 30 years later?" "I remember." "I suggest you think you remember because you want to remember." "Because quite naturally, you want to revenge yourself." "My lord, I think my learned friend is somewhat exceeding his privilege." " My only point is" " Sir Robert." "Just make your point." "I suggest, Mrs. Gold... that you were quite young when this nightmare occurred... and that it happened a very long time ago." "That is all, my lord." "Thank you, Mrs. Gold." "You may stand down." "Mr. Counsel, I want to tell you something." "You don't forget anything... the day you are fixed like a cat or a dog at 1 6." "There are two doctors that tortured and mutilated Jews." "And masked or unmasked, one of them is sitting right over there... with blood still on his hands!" "The jury will, of course, ignore the outburst... of the witness." "Sir Robert... do you wish for her to be recalled?" "No, my lord." "She has been through enough." "Thank you, Sir Robert." "Sir Robert is making the kind of gesture... one would expect of an English barrister." " Mr. Cady?" " General Zaminski." "I am delighted to meet you." "I've read most of your works." "I'm glad to hear my books aren't censored here." " We are happy that you are happy." " Vodka?" "Tea, please." "One more vodka." " Cigarette?" " No, thank you." "I don't." "Tell me, what do the English feel... about the Palestinian guerrilla raids in Israel?" " They're against them." " It's more or less the same here." "Although technically, we're on the Arabs' side." "You must be concerned for your son." "The Israeli Air Force will make reprisals." "How do you know about my son?" "We specialize in acquiring the same kind... of useless information that your intelligence people do." "It keeps us all busy." "I hope it includes the whereabouts of Egon Sobotnik." "We have a lead." "Your people asked us to pursue it, and my party have given permission." "In exchange, of course, for an equal favor in the future." " You are lucky." " I hope so." "I personally want to get my hands on Sobotnik." "He was responsible for my losing the extradition proceedings... against Kelno in London after the war." "How so?" "You saw from his records that our witness, Eli Janos... was castrated by Dr. Lotaki, not Kelno." "So naturally, Janos wasn't able to identify Kelno... and our case fell to pieces." "You mean that Sobotnik had records to consult after the war?" "A swine like that always keeps something... to trade against the day he gets caught." "You've been very decent about this." "What makes you think that decency stops at the Berlin Wall?" "Yes, you're right." "That was a patronizing thing to say." "Well, here's to Sobotnik's records." "Here's to Sobotnik's mistress." "That is our next stop." "Lena Kronska, by name." "She's a tough old witch, and she'll be ready for you." "Are you sure you don't want me to interrogate her?" "Let me try first." "Now that I have the authority, it will take only a few minutes." "If I don't have any luck." "Yes?" "Abraham Cady." "Just tell me what you want." "I resent being told to see people by the police." "Well, may I sit down?" "I don't care what you do, as long as you do it fast." "I'm involved in a lawsuit in London with a man named Adam Kelno." "Perhaps you've read about it in the newspapers here?" "I don't read the papers." "Well, a witness I need badly is missing... a man named Egon Sobotnik." "I'd pay a lot to find him." "Well, you'll have to find someone who knows him first, won't you?" "He lives here with you." "Now, sit down." "You don't frighten me." "Well, of course not." "A Jewish prostitute who serviced the Nazis in Warsaw during the war... can't be afraid of much." "Now, you sit down and behave yourself." "Colonel Zaminski is downstairs ready to take you apart... if you don't talk to me." "We lived together after the war." "Then he disappeared." "That's all." "We don't think he disappeared." "We think he changed his name... his identification... and became somebody else." "We think you know who he is now and where he is now." "Well, think all you want." "You have no visible means of support." "We think Sobotnik takes care of you." "I wish someone would." "I will." "I'll pay you 1 ,000 English pounds for him." "That's far more than he pays you for your silence." "Well, Mr. Cady... you can have Zaminski start taking me apart now." "You're clever, Lena." "Clever enough to make all this work for you." "Clever enough to keep your secret from everyone... except Yahweh." "Who the hell is he?" "Jehovah, god of the Jews." "Someday you'll have to answer to him." "Jehovah!" "You make me laugh." "Where was Jehovah in the concentration camps?" "You tell me." "That crippled old man." "You lost your mother and father there, didn't you?" "Yes, I did." "The merciful Jehovah took them." "They'll really be proud... if this butcher of Jews wins the case because of you." "Shut up, will you?" "You're getting old, Lena." "And the older you get, the more vivid the faces... of your mother and father are going to be." "The mother and father who hid you, who died for you." "And that Gentile husband... who took their place and died in the Resistance." "You remembered him well, didn't you?" "You honored him!" "You became the prostitute for his murderers!" "If, uh... you find Sobotnik... what will you do to him?" "I'll use him as a witness in London." "He won't be punished for his part in this?" "By whom?" "Who is left to try him?" "His name is Gustav Tojak." "He's director for the Lenin Factory Works in Krakow." "Please." "You won't have him to support you anymore." "I'd like to take it, but I can't." "Why not?" "I loved him." "Thank you." "Mrs. Cohen, what was the first thing that happened to you in Barracks Five?" "Someone put a needle into my spine." "A small needle?" "Big needle." "What happened?" "I screamed and wrenched away, and it broke in me." "What happened then?" "I was strapped to the operating table... still screaming and struggling." "Did anyone say anything to you?" "One of the doctors." "What did he say?" "He hit me and said..." ""Shut up, you damn Jewess!"" "He showed me my testicle on a little platter and said..." "" Here is your egg, Jew." "Enjoy the other one, because that goes next."" "And then?" "Then Dr. Tessler comforted me while they sewed me up." "He was there?" "Oh, yes." "He was always there... for myself and the others." "How did you escape, Mr. Bartoy?" "A man in Barracks Three died." "Dr. Tessler gave him my name, and I took his." "I was able to go back to work." "And soon after, we were liberated." "So Moishe Bartoy is not your real name?" "It is the name of the man... who died." "I kept it in his honor." "So Mr. Lehrer, you have never made peace with your... hatred of those you feel mistreated you?" "No, sir, I never have." "Would you?" "That is all, my lord." "One moment, Mr. Lehrer." "My lord, may I remind the court... of a cardinal point in Sir Adam Kelno's testimony?" "Namely, that Dr. Tessler was never present at these operations." "But Mr. Lehrer, Mr. Bartoy and various other witnesses... have all testified under oath that he was there." "Now, my learned friend... in his cross-examination of these witnesses... has never suggested that they were lying on this particular point." "That is his privilege, Mr. Banniester." "My lord, I suggest that the jury is entitled to know... if Sir Robert thinks that these witnesses were lying." "If counsel cannot accept the testimony of a witness... it is his duty to challenge that witness." "Sir Robert has failed to do so conspicuously." "I cannot force him to do so, Mr. Banniester." "I'm aware of that, my lord." "Nevertheless..." "I challenge my learned friend... to put the question to the witness." "I suggest that Dr. Tessler was not in the operating room." "He was there!" "You may stand down, Mr. Lehrer." "Mr. Banniester." "I must call you to order." "My lord, we have just heard... that Dr. Tessler has died of a heart attack in Osterlitz." "We must therefore request a short adjournment." "Yes, of course." "Good morning." "Mark Tessler dead." "You'll get your messages more quickly through the police... than the telegram office." "Was Tessler connected with this case?" "The only witness we had who was actually in the room with Kelno operating." "That is bad." "However, Sobotnik could do it for you." "Sobotnik has to do it for us." "We'll take you around and show you the plant." "And if you have to report today..." "I can assure you we are typical." "It won't be necessary for me to see the plant." "I understood that was the purpose of your visit." "However, if I can show you something else" "There is something else I'd like to see." "It's quite near here." "Certainly." "What is it?" "Jadwiga." "Why on earth would you want to go to Jadwiga?" "Have you ever been there?" "No." "It's something that belongs to the past." "I'm interested in the past." "Mr. Cady, if it's your pleasure, I'll have someone take you." "Well, I was looking forward to your taking me." "I?" "I'm sorry." "You're disappointing me." "The gentleman you came with, whoever he is, will take you?" "He intends to." "This is Mr. Zaminski." "But does that make any sense?" "I don't understand any of it." "You don't have to." "All you have to do is guide us through Jadwiga." "Mr. Zaminski will take us there." "This is all insane." "Do you know what the Party section will do if they hear about this?" "Yes, I do, Comrade Sobotnik." "My name is Tojak." "Whatever." "Shall we go, comrade?" "Thirty years later." "I'm glad you've seen to it that it's still here." ""Work makes freedom. "" "From here we are going to make two stops." "The first to my office to take your statement... and the second to the airport." "The airport?" "Where are you taking me?" "You are about to defect to England... to testify aginst your old Jadwiga associate, Dr. Adam Kelno." "What about my children?" "My wife?" "I'm afraid you may never see your wife and children again as long as you live." "Mr. Cady, can you help me?" "I think you are not like they are." "I wouldn't bet on it." "There is one way you can see your family again." "Anything." "By giving us the surgical register of Barracks Five that you kept." "And how do I know you'll keep your word?" "You don't know." "There were five volumes... one for each of the five years." "I have the one for 1 943." "My lord... members of the jury..." "I concede that we have, indeed... libeled and cast a shadow... on Sir Adam Kelno's reputation." "We have accused him of committing... a thousand criminal surgeries in Barracks Five... without anesthetic." "We've been able to present only a few pitiful survivors... of that surgery." "We were forced to admit these did receive an anaesthetic... however inadequate, improper and brutally administered." "You've heard the evidence of these witnesses." "And you have heard Sir Adam's manner of practicing medicine... the quality of his allegiance to the Hippocratic oath... described by his fellow prison doctors... and by the greatest medical authorities in it." "I submit to you that Sir Adam Kelno's reputation... could hardly be more damaged... than it was before he entered this court." "I submit that he does not deserve... to be rewarded for it by a British jury." "I submit that he deserves only our contempt... and the rejection by this court... of his suit for libel against Mr. Abraham Cady." "My lord, ladies and gentlemen of the jury... in making my closing remarks..." "I will stick strictly to the facts... as they have been presented to you here... in Queen's Bench Seven." "Mr. Cady's libel of Sir Adam Kelno states... that he performed 1 ,000 or more experiments on Jews... without the use of anesthetics." "Mr. Cady now agrees that spinal anesthetics were used." "And he has been unable to establish even a score of the operations..." "Sir Adam has described to you, no less the remaining 980." "Mr. Cady has established that... some prisoner doctor in the hell of Jadwiga... ill-treated and wilfully experimented on Jewish prisoners." "But no witness for the defense... has been able to identify Sir Adam Kelno as that doctor." "If Sir Adam Kelno were guilty of wrongdoing... would he have come into this court to defend his name?" "I ask that you award him substantial damages." "I ask that you return him with honor... to a world he has served... until this feckless libel stained his reputation." "That is my case, my lord." "Mr. Banniester, what is the meaning of this?" "Mr. Banniester, what is the meaning of this?" "My lord, I ask the court's indulgence." "I had no way of knowing until this very moment... whether the gentleman who has just appeared in the courtroom... would be admitted into England with sufficient speed to appear here." "He is a defector from his own country." "Who is this person?" "Egon Sobotnik... surgical clerk in Barracks Five to Dr. Adam Kelno." "Do you intend to take his evidence now?" "I do not." "Mr. Sobotnik has brought with him a document... which contains all the evidence that I need." "With your permission, I will now submit it to the court." "What is this document?" "It is a portion of the surgical register of Barracks Five." "Sir Adam stated he wished it were here... so that, if I'm paraphrasing incorrectly... he could prove his innocence." "I strongly object to this last-minute, obviously contrived attempt... to submit new evidence." "On what grounds?" "I know of no precedent where a trial is at its close... where the court has allowed an amendment to the bill of particulars... in the form of new evidence, which may change entirely the nature of the case." "Yes, Mr. Dicks?" "My lord, I've already found three instances... where permission was not granted." "Indeed, I find there seems to be no precedent." "I contend that this does not change the nature of the case... only I trust its outcome." "I repeat again that the plaintiff cried aloud in this very courtroom... for this specific piece of evidence so that he might prove his innocence." "Well, let him prove it now." "And I repeat again that regardless of what my client may have said... he does not have to prove anything." "He is the plaintiff in this case, not the defendant." "There are copies of this document to give to the plaintiff and jury." "Yes, indeed, my lord." "These are photostats made last night in Poland... and certified by the officer in charge of war crime records, Warsaw." "My lord, my opponent has achieved a certain drama with this gambling." "I presume that it may lead to some practical result." "I contend again that these results are without precedent." "My lord, I quote Sir Adam directly:" ""I insisted on accurate records." "I felt it important that there should never be doubt of my behavior later."" "Never in the whole of my career... have I seen a piece of evidence that cries out more to be heard... than this surgical record of Barracks Five... in the concentration camp of Jadwiga." "Sir Robert, if there is no precedent... then I shall set one." "Will you please distribute the documents." " Mr. Banniester, you may proceed." " Thank you." "I wish to have Sir Adam Kelno recalled." "Sir Robert, do you agree... to your client being recalled?" "If he will, my lord." "It's in that column." "See that the witness has a copy of this document." "To assist the members of the jury... let's take a page at random, page 51 ." "Page 51 ." "Now, this lists 30 surgeries... performed in Barracks Five on the first of August, 1 943." "Going from left to right across the page... we see ten different columns." "The first column lists the number of the operation... the second the date, the third the number of the patient." "The letter " J" appears... after several of the tattoo numbers on these pages." "What does that denote?" "Jew." "Please speak up, Sir Adam." "Jew!" "The fourth and fifth columns list the patient's name... and the diagnosis of his illness." "The sixth column describes the operation." "Is that all correct?" "Yes." "The seventh and eighth columns contain the names of the surgeon... and the name of his assistant, signed by the hand of each." "The names are those of yourself and Dr. Lotaki." "There are no other names." "Is that correct?" "Yes." "Whose handwriting is on the rest of the page?" "Sir Adam." "Sobotnik's." " As your clerk?" " Yes." "What is in the ninth column?" "I must ask you to respond." "The anesthetist." "Will the jury and my lord look down the thirty-odd operations on the page." "The signature of the anesthetist appears in the case... of how many operations, Sir Adam?" "I count" "Twenty." "Is that correct?" "I guess so." "You guess so." "Twenty." "What does the "G" mean after the anesthetist's signature?" "Does that stand for general anesthetic?" "Yes." "Do any of the tattoo numbers... of these 20 operations in which... you use a general anesthetic... have the letter " J" appended to them?" "There are... ten numbers on the page with the letter " J" following them, are there not?" "Yes." "And no anesthetist has signed the register... where the letter " J" appears." "How do you account for that?" "I told you." "I went in there with spinals." "I gave them myself." "Your surviving patients testified in this courtroom that you did not." "And did not you testify under oath... that you gave spinal anesthetics... because no general anesthetic was available?" "You were lying, weren't you?" "Is the date the same for the whole of this page?" "Yes." "You were lying because... general anesthetic was available... and was given to all the non" " Jewish patients." "Is that correct?" "Answer the question." "Yes!" "And not to the Jewish patients." "Is that correct?" "Yes or no?" "Yes!" "The tenth column is blank throughout this page." "What was that column for?" "Occasional notes." "Occasional notes." "Thank you." "Let's turn to page 7 1 ." "You testified that you never performed castration... on men you considered to be healthy." " Correct?" " Yes." "Let us look down this page." "Does the jury and my lord... see the name Daniel Dubrovsky... about one third of the way down?" "Tattoo number 1 1 4360" " J." "What is described as the diagnosis?" "Just two letters." "What are the letters?" ""S" and "O"." "What do they mean?" "I don't remember." "Let me help you to remember." ""S" means "smuggling," "O" means "order."" "The prisoner was caught smuggling extra food into his barracks." "The SS ordered him to be castrated... as a punishment and an example." "What kind of disease is smuggling, Doctor?" "Turn to page 93." "Does the name Menov Bunker, 1 3 21 4" " J, appear?" "Yes." "The diagnosis column is blank, is it not?" " Yes." " Does that mean he was not sick?" "No, it must have meant an oversight." "Can I ask Mr. Sobotnik to take the oath... and tell us what kind of an oversight it was?" "What is that in the last and tenth column... the one you use for your occasional notes?" " Figures." " Read them!" "AD-91 1 ." "9.1 1 ." "What do they mean?" "I can't remember." "It was so long ago." "I wouldn't remember either, if I were you." "I suggest that the register does not denote Menov Bunker's illness... because he was not ill." "I suggest that the figures 9.1 1 ... denote the time it took you to castrate Menov Bunker... and sew him up again... as part of the SS experiment... to determine how fast castration could be done." "Will you deny that?" "What does a " D" mean?" "Deceased." "He died of shock and infection, didn't he?" "My lord, members of the jury... we've accounted through this one register from 1 943... the only one of five that has survived." "There are... twenty-three entries... exactly similar to that of Menov Dunker... among the hundreds of entries... describing the operations performed on Jews... who were used as guinea pigs by the German experiments." "And every one of these 23 operations... were performed by this very doctor..." "Adam Kelno." "Do you wish to contest that?" "That is all, my lord." "You may stand down, Sir Adam." "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury... you have heard the evidence in great detail... and also learned counsels' respective submissions." "I need say no more to you." "So you will retire and consider your verdict." " How much did you really know?" " Keep your voice down." "How could he string everybody along for so long?" "I don't want to hear you talk like that about your father." "He's a monster." "How can you live in the same house with him?" "You were a very young boy." "You don't know what life was like." "And at times like this, you should talk to him." "I can't face him." "It's impossible!" "Please, darling." "Just stay home." "Let your father explain to you." "Let him talk to you." "How can he explain?" "Just remember that he loves you." "No matter what, he loves you." "I don't want to hurt you, but I can't live in the same house with him anymore." " He's a monster." " How dare you!" " Just let me get some things." " Where have you been?" " Excuse me." " I asked you a question!" "Will you let it go?" "You sick old man." "It must be rough if you hate both Jews and Communists these days." "Who do you hate the most?" "But then I don't have to ask you, do I?" "I never want to see your face again." "You never will." "Get out!" "Mr. Cady." "Special cable for you." ""Lieutanant Ben Cady gave his life... for Israel and the Jewish people... in a skirmish over Sinai this morning." "The government and the people of Israel share in your grief."" "Take Margaret inside." "I'll see you in a minute." "Silence!" "Will the foreman please rise." "Members of the jury, are you all agreed upon your verdict?" "We are." "For whom do you find?" "Do you find for the plaintiff, Sir Adam Kelno... or for the defendent, Abraham Cady?" "We find for the plaintiff, Sir Adam Kelno." "Silence!" "In what sum do you find for Sir Adam Kelno?" "In the sum of one halfpenny, the lowest coin in the realm." " Is that the verdict of you all?" " It is." "My lord, the jury finds for the plaintiff... in the sum of one halfpenny." "There will be judgment... for the plaintiff, Sir Adam Kelno... in the sum of one halfpenny... for the damage... to his reputation." "Members of the jury, thank you." "You are now discharged." "Mr. Cady, we're live on radio in Britan." "Mr. Cady, we're live on radio in Britan." "Could you give us some comments?" "The men and women of this jury" "The men and women of this jury have played back to us... what Europe has learned over the bodies of its millions of dead." "That those who hate and bomb and starve other people... because they fear the color of their skin... because it's different from theirs or their politics... because it's different from theirs... or their religion because it's different from theirs... are evil men." "That if there's any common meaning to the words "good" and "evil"... it lies in the difference between such men and ourselves." "So as long as we allow them to rule nations... to command armies... ao administer to sects... we will continue to be their victims." "Am I satisfied?" "It's a word that can't be used in connection... with the issues this trial has touched upon." "Because what happened between... 1 939 and 1 945 in Europe... is still happening in half a dozen countries across the world." "And it will continue to happen... as long as evil men remain organized... and good and gentle men... are deceived and put upon... and paralyzed by them." "That's the meaning of... what's taken place here in this courtroom... in this contest."