Adolf Eichmann

Adolf Eichmann

Holocaust perpetrator
The Holocaust
Nazism
war crime
Weimar Republic
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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.

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Lifespan
1906 – 1962
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61
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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

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  • 1906

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    Birth
  • 1962

    Died

    Death

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