“The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes” | Film Screening and After-Talk
April 23, 2025, 6:00 pm, Emerson Hall 105
Dear members of the CJS community,
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The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes unearths secret recordings of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust’s Final Solution, which definitively shows his active involvement in the planning and implementation of one of the greatest atrocities in world history. Recorded in Buenos Aires in 1957 by Dutch journalist and former SS-Officer Willem Sassen with the intention to prove the Holocaust did not happen as portrayed and without Hitler’s knowledge, these tapes show the opposite and expose Eichmann, in his own voice, stunningly contradicting claims he made during his eventual trial for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes against the Jewish people. The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes sheds light on the hidden forces that concealed the recordings, altering the arc of history as we have understood it for more than 70 years, and provides irrefutable proof against Holocaust denial and the pernicious antisemitic hatred from which it springs.
The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes has already received worldwide attention, with prominent coverage in The New York Times, CNN, NPR, L’Express, and The Times of Israel.The film premiere will be followed by a distinguished panel discussion moderated by Richard Salomon (HLS ’79), co-founder of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and member of the Executive Committee of the Museum, who is also a Senior Fellow of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Renew Democracy Initiative.
This event is not co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies.