and then they had in order to protect the accused, they had a special glass booth where he was kept. this was really a very, very special moment that here in a jewish state, a jewish trial, we are the representatives of the jewish people. and that we can show that the men who murdered man who murdered millions of people from our society, that that was very, very justifiable and very just. that we should do that and not leave it to a court of another country. reporter: it was one of the first televised trials the world had ever seen. it was a pivotal moment in the world s reckoning with the genocide perpetrated by the nazis. [ speaking foreign language ] translator: i was about 16 when the naziis took over. may parents and sister were