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Otto Adolf Eichmann (/ ˈ aɪ k m ə n / EYEKH-mən, German: [ˈɔtoː ˈʔaːdɔlf ˈʔaɪçman]; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust.
May 27, 2024 · Adolf Eichmann (born March 19, 1906, Solingen, Germany—died May 31, 1962, Tel Aviv, Israel) was a German high official who was hanged by the State of Israel for his part in the Holocaust, the Nazi extermination of Jews during World War II. During World War I, Eichmann’s family moved from Germany to Linz, Austria.
Adolf Eichmann was one of the most pivotal actors in the implementation of the “Final Solution.” Charged with managing and facilitating the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and killing centers in the German-occupied East, he was among the major organizers of the Holocaust. More information about this image. perpetrators. Adolf Eichmann.
In 1934, Adolf Eichmann was appointed to the Jewish section of the “security services” of the SS. From then on, he became deeply involved with the formulation and operation of the “ final solution to the Jewish question.”
Adolf Eichmann was an Austrian-born SS officer principally responsible for coordinating the Nazi German implementation of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.”
As head of the Gestapo's section for Jewish affairs, Eichmann coordinated with Gestapo chief Heinrich Mueller on a plan to expel Jews from Greater Germany to Poland, which set the pattern for future deportations. For those and other charges, Eichmann was found guilty and sentenced to death.
In 1932 Eichmann joined the Nazi party and the SS. His first five years of service in the ranks of the Nazi party and the SS contained nothing that could point to his future overwhelmingly crucial role in the practical execution of a plan which aimed to murder Jews wherever they could be found - the crime that went down in history as "the Final ...
Feb 17, 2011 · Adolf Eichmann systematically applied the logistics of commerce to the annihilation of Jews during the Holocaust. David Cesarani examines the mind of a Nazi war criminal. Early influences....
The trial of Adolf Eichmann, held in Jerusalem in 1961 and 1962, riveted the attention of the Israeli public and aroused great interest the world over. This was the first time that the Holocaust was presented to a competent judicial body in full detail, in all its stages and from all its aspects.
312. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is a 1963 book by the philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise to power, reported on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, for The New Yorker. A revised and enlarged edition was ...
