Adolf Eichmann
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Following this, he was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Solingen
- Educated at
- Bundesrealgymnasium Linz Fadingerstraße
- Awards
- 🏆 Anschluss Medal🏆 Honour Chevron for the Old Guard🏆 SS-Ehrenring🏆 Iron Cross 2nd Class🏆 War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think."
"Long live Germany. Long live Argentina. Long live Austria. These are the three countries with which I have been most connected and which I will not forget. I greet my wife, my family and my friends. I…"
"I am one of those people who can't stand to see corpses.... But there is one good thing nature gave me. I can switch off and forget very quickly, without trying to.... I still have a very devout sayin…"
"Nobody else was such a household name in Jewish political life at home and abroad in Europe as little old me."
"The Nazi Hunter: Capturing Eichmann, the Architect of the Holocaust", The Atlantic YouTube channel"
"While we were working with the Jews to solve the Jewish question, the others used the Jews as a means to an end, to milk them for their own ends.... And this is why there are still a whole lot of Jews…"
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1906
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Birth1962
Died
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