“I was not a responsible leader, and as such do not feel myself guilty.”
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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 organizers 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 H…
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politics · German SS officer and war criminal (1906–1962) · politician · police officer · military officer · salesperson · Holocaust perpetrator · also Adolf Eichmann, Eichmann Ottó Adolf, Klement Richárd, Eichmann
Born 19 March 1906 · Died 31 May 1962 · Q28085
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2026· 9 entries
“All I know is that Heydrich told me,”
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Contexto Tucumán: La sorprendente historia de Adolf Eichmann en la yunga argentina
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Contexto Tucumán: La sorprendente vida de Adolf Eichmann en las yungas argentinas
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Contexto Tucumán: Los años ocultos de Adolf Eichmann en la yunga argentina
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La Nación: Adolf Eichmann, el arquitecto de la solución final, se escondió en la yunga argentina durante años
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Adolf Eichmann's Role in the Holocaust
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facebook.com: 🚨 Los cazadores de nazis: el secuestro de Adolf Eichmann
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2024· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: THE TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN Will Play Off-Broadway This July, Adapted For The Stage By David Serero
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2021· 1 entry
The Forward: How Adolf Eichmann murdered Superman — and was sentenced to death for his crimes
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2016· 3 entries
The Forward: Holocaust Architect Adolf Eichmann Begged Not to Hang, Letter Reveals
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Fox News: Israel releases letter written by Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann 2 days before his execution
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Did not contradict this: "There is a need to draw a line between the leaders responsible and the people like me forced to serve as mere instruments in the hands of the leaders", Eichmann wrote
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2014· 1 entry
To have heard him later mumble "I hope that all of you will follow me", making those his final words
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2008· 1 entry
That the team decided not to pursue Mengele, as it might have jeopardised the Eichmann operation
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2006· 1 entry
Show that the capture of Eichmann caused alarm at the CIA and West German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND)
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1971· 1 entry
Twelve years after he had provided the information
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1962· 7 entries
Died 1962-05-31.
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“Whether they were bank directors or mental cases, the people who were loaded on those trains meant nothing to me. It was really none of my business.”
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“Opis: w telewizyjnym wywiadzie z cyklu Zur Person przeprowadzonym z Günterem Gausem.”
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“I loved playing an open hand against all the Jewish political functionaries ... For me, 'open hand' is a winged word.”
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“Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. … His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.”
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“It was my job to catch our Jewish enemies like fish in a net and transport them to their final destination.”
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“I was never an anti-Semite. … My sensitive nature revolted at the sight of corpses and blood... I personally had nothing to do with this. My job was to observe and report on it.”
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1960· 1 entry
Prompting Wiesenthal to make arrangements for private detectives to surreptitiously photograph members of the family
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1957· 1 entry
Bauer personally conveyed this information to Mossad director Isser Harel, who assigned operatives to undertake surveillance, but no concrete evidence was initially found
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1956· 1 entry
Hermann's daughter, Sylvia, began dating a man named Klaus Eichmann who boasted about his father's Nazi exploits
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1953· 1 entry
Wiesenthal learned from a letter shown to him that Eichmann had been seen in Buenos Aires, and he passed that information to the Israeli consulate in Vienna in 1954
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1950· 1 entry
That would allow emigration to Argentina
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1948· 1 entry
Eichmann obtained a landing permit for Argentina and false identification under the name Ricardo Klement through an organisation directed by Bishop Alois Hudal, an Austrian cleric and Nazi sympathiser then residing in It
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1945· 5 entries
But he escaped and eventually settled in Argentina
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Eichmann was captured by US forces, but he escaped from a detention camp and moved around Germany to avoid recapture
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“leap laughing into the grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction”
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“I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction”
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That "I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction", Eichmann said he meant "enemies of the Reich" such as
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1944· 3 entries
Awarded War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords (1944).
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Awarded Iron Cross (1939), 2nd class (1944).
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Awarded War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords (1944).
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1938· 2 entries
Was also instrumental in exposing Eichmann's identity
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Eichmann was posted to Vienna to help organise Jewish emigration from Austria, which had just been integrated into the Reich through the Anschluss
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1937· 1 entry
To assess the possibility of Germany's Jews voluntarily emigrating there, disembarking with forged press credentials at Haifa, whence they travelled to Cairo in Egypt
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1936· 1 entry
And was commissioned as an SS-Untersturmführer (second lieutenant) the following year
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1933· 1 entry
Where he joined the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, "Security Service"); there he was appointed head of the department responsible for Jewish affairs – especially emigration, which the Nazis encouraged through violence and econom
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1927· 1 entry
And joined both the Nazi Party and the SS in 1932
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1916· 1 entry
Eichmann's father married Maria Zawrzel, a devout Protestant with two sons
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1913· 1 entry
To take a position as commercial manager for the Linz Tramway and Electrical Company, and the rest of the family followed a year later
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1906· 2 entries
Born 1906-03-19.
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“s and would have to be carried out. Dieter Wisliceny, quoted in”
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