Jerusalem - Israel may hand over unpublished memoirs of the executed Nazi official, Adolf Eichmann, as evidence in the libel suit involving the British historian, David Irving. Irving has brought a suit against the American author, Deborah Lipstadt, who in a 1995 book called him "a dangerous spokesman for Holocaust denial".
Israel has kept the memoirs under lock and key for decades. It recently said it favoured publishing the papers, which Eichmann wrote by hand from a prison cell before he was hanged in 1962, the only execution ever held in the Jewish state. Eichmann drew up plans that made feasible Hitler's "Final Solution", the annihilation of millions of Jews.
Lawyers for Lipstadt and Penguin Books want the memoirs as evidence against Irving's charges that he was slandered and his reputation damaged by her book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory.