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Dec 2, 2014 · This 1961 file photo shows Adolf Eichmann standing in his glass cage in the Jerusalem courtroom where he was tried and convicted of war crimes committed during World War II.
Otto Adolf Eichmann[ a ] (/ ˈaɪkmən / EYEKH-mən, [ 1 ]German: [ˈʔɔto ˈʔaːdɔlf ˈʔaɪçman]; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian [ 2 ] official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which ...
Adolf Eichmann Nazi Party perpetrators trials postwar. After World War II, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann escaped US custody and fled to Argentina. He was caught by Israeli agents in 1960 and tried in Israel. For his pivotol role in the Holocaust, Eichmann was convicted and sentenced to death. Many historians credit coverage of the Eichmann ...
Here, more than five decades after his May 1962 execution by hanging in Israel after a 14-week war-crimes trial, LIFE.com presents pictures of Eichmann in prison: raw, strangely intimate photographs by Gjon Mili chronicling the “arch war criminal” (as LIFE put it) engaged in the most quotidian of pursuits reading, writing, washing, eating all the while fully aware, as most of the world was ...
Aug 30, 2018 · 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. Eichmann (1906–1962) was born in Solingen, Germany, on March ...
Aug 29, 2018 · By Lily Rothman. August 29, 2018 9:30 AM EDT. W hen Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann escaped from the Allied forces that had captured him after World War II, he disappeared and was presumed dead by some ...
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Eichmann’s Escape. 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.”. He drew up the idea of deportation of Jews into ghettos and went about concentrating Jews in ...
