Avner Less

Werner Avner Less, also Avner W. Less ( born December 18, 1916 in Berlin, † January 7, 1987 in Zurich ) was an Israeli police chief inspector, who in Jerusalem in the wake of the Eichmann trial, the interrogation of Adolf Eichmann headed 1960/61.

Education and work

Less visited Berlin in the Upper Forest School Charlottenburg, fled after handing over power to the Nazis to France in 1933 where he continued his training in agriculture.

1938 immigrated to Palestine Less and worked there during the first years on orange plantations. From 1941 to 1948 he was a police officer in the police mandate in Haifa and price checker for the local district. After the establishment of Israel in 1948, he joined the Israeli government service and worked as head of the import-export section in the Trade and Industry Ministry, then as Deputy Director of the Legal Department for the price control in the District of Haifa. From 1951 Less police officer was in the Department of Economic Crimes, 1954-1968 temporarily working abroad service as Attaché and Consul in New York City and Paris as well as permanent representative of Israel to the annual conferences of the UN Drug Commission in Geneva and at Interpol.

Eichmann's interrogator

From 1960 to 1961 Less was entrusted with the management of the interrogation of Adolf Eichmann and interrogated him even 275 hours long. Less describes Eichmann as a " born liar who will tell the truth when it appears useful to him. " Less had to change his interrogation tactics often because Eichmann most prolix and answered evasively. To Eichmann to induce spontaneous opinions and to tell the truth, las Less front of him from time to time from documents.

In court, Eichmann tried to convince the judge of the unimportance of his person, and played the role of a petty official who nachkam with blind obedience of his duty. Less noted in Nachherein, it was simply amazing, with how much naivety many observers of the trial Eichmann case " crept into the trap ." After the trial Less appeared as a witness on vielbefragter in public.

Activities in Switzerland

From 1968 Less took his permanent residence in Switzerland. Until 1971 he was an employee of the Banque de Crédit International Genève. From 1972 he was responsible for internal security affairs of the Bank Robinson AG in Basel, 1976-1979 employees of the Company for bank revisions in Basel and from 1979 internal inspector Neutra Treuhand AG in Zurich.

Writings

• " Lie! All Lie " - records of the Eichmann Verhörers. Reconstructed by Bettina Stangneth. Zurich, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7160-2689-2
• (Ed.): Guilty - The verdict against Adolf Eichmann. With an afterword by Jochen von Lang. Frankfurt am Main, 1987, ISBN 3-610-08432-4
• By Jochen von Lang: Tonbandaufzeichn. d israel. interrogations; faks with 66. Documents. Berlin [ West ]: Severin and Siedler, 1982.
• Adolf Eichmann Adolf Aikhman = 5 [ Sl] Police d' Israel, Quartier général, 6 - eme bureau (he) ( di: interrogation protocols )