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  Adolf Eichmann - Picture - MSN Encarta
Adolf Eichmann was entrusted by the leaders of Nazi Germany with responsibility for carrying out and coordinating the “final solution”—the murder of almost 6 million Jews during World War II (1939-1945).
In 1944 Eichmann was dispatched to Hungary to supervise the destruction of the Hungarian Jews.
Eichmann vanished after the war, but in 1960 Israeli agents found him in Argentina, abducted him, and took him to Israel.
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 Adolf Eichmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eichmann's transfer was granted in November of 1934, as he was promoted to the rank of Oberscharführer and assigned to the headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) in Berlin.
Eichmann's work had been noticed, and in 1944, he was sent to Hungary after Germany had occupied that country in fear of a Soviet invasion.
Eichmann was captured by a team of Mossad agents in a suburb of Buenos Aires on May 11, 1960, as part of a covert operation.
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 Adolf Eichmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Adolf Karl Eichmann was born in Solingen, Germany on March 19th 1906.
Eichmann's childhood was a happy one although he was an insecure boy.
Adolf Eichmann's personal life was also developing during this time, in 1935 he married Veronika Liebl who was to bear him 3 sons before the collapse of the Third Reich.
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 Jewish Law - Commentary/Opinion - What to Do with Adolf Eichmann's Memiors?
In Austria and Czechoslovakia, Eichmann was the one primarily responsible for Jewish destruction.
Adolf Eichmann embraced his leader's vitriolic hatred of Jews and other "undesirables" with a passion-and turned his mind to creating the most efficient and horrifying machine of death the world has ever seen.
Adolf, son of Addfkarl Eichmann, he was found guilty in December 1961 and, after his appeal to the Supreme Court was rejected, was hanged in a Ramle prison in May 31, 1962.
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 adolf eichmann biography (1906-1962) | ss-obersturmbannfuehrer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Karl Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) was head of the Department for Jewish Affairs in the Gestapo from 1941 to 1945 and was chief of operations in the deportation of three million Jews to extermination camps.
By 1935 Eichmann was already working in the Jewish section, where he was investigating possible "solutions to the Jewish question." He was even sent to Palestine to discuss the viability of large scale immigration to the Middle East with Arab leaders.
It was Eichmann who organized the Wannsee Conference of January 1942, which focused on issues related to the "final solution of the Jewish question." From this point Eichmann assumed the leading role in the deportation of European Jews to the death camps, as well as in the plunder of their property.
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 Karl Adolf Eichmann Biography / Biography of Karl Adolf Eichmann World of Criminal Justice Biography
By the time Eichmann was named head of the Office for Jewish Emigration in March of 1938, he was clearly among the group of individuals who did know, and he accepted his new responsibilities with no apparent pangs of conscience.
Eichmann got better treatment at the hands of the Israelis than the Jews he sent to death got from him or his fellow officers.
Eichmann mounted the gallows in Tel Aviv and was hanged in May 31, 1962.
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 Adolf Eichmann - Biography
Eichmann then became a member of the SS and in 1934 served as an SS corporal at Dachau concentration camp.
Eichmann was then assigned to investigate possible "solutions to the Jewish question." He visited Palestine in 1937 to discuss the possibility of large scale immigration of Jews to the Middle East with Arab leaders.
Eichmann thus became one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich and would remain head of IV for the remainder of the Reich.
www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/biographies/eichmann.htm   (1763 words)

  
 Penguin Reading Guides | Eichmann in Jerusalem | Hannah Arendt
Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi lieutenant colonel responsible for transporting countless Jews to concentration camps and, in most cases, to their deaths, escaped Germany after World War II and made his way to Argentina, where he lived under a false name until 1960.
Eichmann told the court that he saw himself as a friend of the Jews, helping them leave a culture for which they were unsuited and move on to better lives elsewhere.
Eichmann claimed that as his job shifted from forcing Jews from their homes to arranging for them to be killed, he was troubled by the new policy but felt duty-bound to obey his superiors.
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 The Biography Channel - Karl Adolf Eichmann Biography
Eichmann wanted to be an engineer but, after failing his exams, he was left with a sense of uncertainty.
Eichmann was credited with ensuring that the deportation trains carrying Jews to the concentration camp kept running, even while the Allies were closing in on Nazi Germany.
Eichmann was found guilty of all charges and he was hanged on the 31st May, 1962.
thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/564:0/Karl_Adolf_Eichmann.htm   (478 words)

  
 Spero News: The CIA names file on Adolf Eichmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Eichmann was captured at the end of World War II by allied forces, but managed to escape the internment camp where he was confined in 1946.
The CIA file on Eichmann includes a number of revelations, including the lack of American intelligence on Eichmann's whereabouts before his capture, as well as a lack of intelligence on the Israeli operation to find and bring him to justice.
Bolschwing "had been Eichmann's tutor on Zionism and the politics of Zionism in the mid-1930s and then his ally in persecuting the Jews of Austria." (Note 2) After the war, Bolschwing served as an asset first for the Gehlen organization, and was then recruited directly by the CIA for work in Austria.
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 Adolf Eichmann and Aktion Reinhard
Eichmann's body was cremated in a temporary facility that bizarrely replicated the scenes at Auschwitz, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Majdanek.
It is impossible to overstate the importance of Eichmann's trial in the historiography of the Holocaust.
Eichmann described the site; there were patches of woods, and a highway passed through it.
www.deathcamps.org /reinhard/eichmann.html   (1885 words)

  
 martinls423 / Personal WBS Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Adolf Eichmann was born at Cologne, Germany as Karl Adolf Eichmann on March 19, 1906.
Eichmann ordered gas chambers to be built to exterminate millions of Jewish victims at the concentration camps.
Eichmann was then taken to Jerusalem and put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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 Commentary Magazine - The Trial and Eichmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
...Given Eichmann's admissions both before and during the Trial, the reasonable examination of his behavior and motives put things in a grotesque light, as if the judges, the Prosecutor, the spectators, had by their mere presence agreed to cooperate with the defense in respecting its monstrous hypotheses...
...Eichmann's weeks on the stand had the effect not of breaking him down but of breaking down in the mind of the world audience the outlines, traced with such difficulty, of the Final Solution as a conspiracy of murderous men, and transforming it into an impersonal process...
...Eichmann himself is a model of how the myth of the enemy-Jew can be used to transform the ordinary man of present-day society into a menace to all his neighbors...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V32I5P7-1.htm   (6953 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: The Specialist: Portrait of a Modern Criminal
Karl Adolf Eichmann was one of the main participants in "The Final Solution," Nazi Germany's horrific plan to exterminate European Jews.
By the end of the war in 1945, Eichmann was briefly interred in an Allied camp, but he managed to escape and flee to Argentina, where he lived under the name Ricardo Klement.
Eichmann was convicted after the four-month trial and hanged in 1962.
www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/s/specialist_portrait.q.shtml   (627 words)

  
 Adolf Eichmann
Eichmann was sentenced to death and executed in Ramleh Prison on May 31, 1962.
While living in Argentina in 1960, Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped and smuggled to Israel where he was put on trial for crimes against humanity.
The kidnapping of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann by the Israeli Mossad was one of it's most known coups of the 1960's.
www.nizkor.org /hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf   (703 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain News: Local
In fact, Karl Adolf Eichmann was head of the Department for Jewish Affairs in Adolf Hitler's Gestapo from 1941 to 1945, serving as chief of operations for the deportation of 3 million Jews to extermination camps.
Eichmann escaped from a U.S. prisoner of war camp, making it to Argentina, where he lived until his recapture by Israeli Mossad agents in 1960.
Eichmann testified at his trial that "orders were orders," Feinstein said.
www.rockymountainnews.com /drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3829391,00.html   (282 words)

  
 Astrocartography of Adolf Eichmann's Least-aspected Mars, Pluto
Eichmann, according to one of his henchmen, said just before the German collapse that “he would 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.”
Eichmann’s Secondary Transcendental Mars sets in a curving pattern over the southeast corner of the Mediterranean, further extending the range of this Transcendental Midpoint-Field.
S.S. Chief Reinhard Heydrich chose Eichmann to coordinate the decisions reached at the Wannsee Conference, to “ensure that the Final Solution worked smoothly, that the deportations were orderly and systematic, and that adequate deceptions worked throughout”2 (Primary Pluto).
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 The CIA Names File on Adolf Eichmann
Document 19: "Adolf Karl Eichmann, Espionage," September 15, 1948.
Document 44: "Adolf Karl Eichmann," September 30, 1959.
Document 54: "Adolf Eichmann," [illegible date] CIA memorandum.
www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB150/index.htm   (4267 words)

  
 adolf: TIME 100: Adolf Hitler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Karl Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) was head of the Department for.
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The Hitler Historical Museum is a non-biased, non-profit museum devoted to the study and preservation of the world history related to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist Party.
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 The Executioner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Eichmann's 'apartment,' as we called it, was in a special wing on the second floor, but no Ashkenazi guards were allowed up.
Adolph Eichmann was born in 1906 in Solingen, Germany.
Eichmann's appeal to the Supreme Court, on the grounds that he was merely carrying out orders of the Reich and had no personal interest in killing Jews, was rejected, as was his appeal for clemency.
www.aish.com /holocaust/issues/The_Executioner.asp   (2865 words)

  
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Eichmann, (Karl) Adolf (1906-62), Nazi official responsible for the murder of millions of Jews during World War II.
Eichmann joined the Nazi secret police in 1934, and when the Germans annexed Austria in 1938, he was given the job of deporting Jews from that country, in accordance with Nazi anti-Semitic policy.
In 1960 the Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, who had been a member of the German SS and an organizer of anti-Semitic activities, was captured as a war criminal in Argentina by Israeli agents.
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 Trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem: Judgment Part 1
The Accused: ADOLF, son of Karl Adolf, EICHMANN
The references in the Judgment are to the official record in Hebrew.
Adolf Eichmann has been brought to trial in this Court on charges of unsurpassed gravity - charges of crimes against the Jewish People, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/Eichmanna.htm   (3331 words)

  
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The Nazi officer in charge of this duty was Adolph Eichmann, who traveled from country to country that was under German occupation to systematically plan the deportation of the local Jewish population to the death camps.
During the visit to SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Eichmann I reported on the situation in Vienna, the position [reached] by the emigration transports, the probable number of Jews over 65, who were to be taken to Theresienstadt for permanent residence, as well as on financial questions.
SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Eichmann declared that the destination for emigration was decided together with departments of the Wehrmacht, and that it was not possible to say in advance where the transports would go; he would see what could be done in this matter.
www2.dsu.nodak.edu /users/dmeier/Holocaust/deportations.html   (8175 words)

  
 Eichmann Family Crest
The German state of Prussia, which reached the zenith of its power in the late 19th century, is the glorious birthplace of the distinguished surname Eichmann.
In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
In the Eichmann coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
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 Eichmann Trial Transcripts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Adolf, the son of Adolf Karl Eichmann, in the District Court of Jerusalem: Criminal Case No. 40/61.
This transcript, based on the files of the New York Public Library, originally secured through the Jewish National and University Library, is an unedited and unrevised transcript of the simultaneous translation and, as such, should not be regarded as stylistically perfect or devoid of linguistic errors.
During World War II, Adolf Karl Eichmann was directly responsible for implementing the Nazi's "Final Solution" - the extermination of the Jewish people.
library.truman.edu /microforms/eichmann.htm   (133 words)

  
 Index E   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In January 1942, at Wannsee, near Berlin, a conference of Nazi high officials was convened to organize schedules and logistics arrangements necessary to implement the "final solution" of the Jewish problem.
Eichmann was to coordinate these arrangements; thus, although the fact that the "final solution" was mass execution had not become generally known, Eichmann had in effect been named chief executioner.
Following the war, Eichmann was captured by U.S. troops, but in 1946 he escaped from the prison camp.
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 Book People: Re; Thoughts on the Internet's Founding Myths
The previous version "Karl Adolf Eichmann" was probably a confusion for his father's name "Adolf Karl Eichmann".
Following the cite, which leads to a painstakingly compiled transcription of the Eichmann trial documents from the widely-respected Nizkor website, I see that indeed some of the reports say that by his own testimony he was "Otto Adolf Eichmann".
He also confirms that "Adolf Karl Eichmann" was actually the name of the Nazi Eichmann's father.
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu /webbin/bparchive?year=2006&post=2006-06-13,2   (1045 words)

  
 The Scales of Good and Evil
Eichmann was not simply sitting silently by in Hitler's "shadow," as one of your respondents said.
Eichmann was the sole orchestrator of the Nazi extermination of the Jews.
Heinrich Himmler, who was second only to Eichmann in the Nazi's death squad, and head of the Nazi Gestapo, had an actual mental disease that caused him to laugh and giggle uncontrollably at the sight of anything in pain or suffering.
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 Gallery - Nazi Leaders - Photos
Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler review SS troops during Reich Party Day ceremonies.
SS-Obersturmbannführer Karl Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) was head of the Department for Jewish Affairs in the Gestapo from 1941 to 1945 and was chief of operations in the deportation of three million Jews to extermination camps.
Colonel-General Karl Rudolf von Rundstedt (1875-1953), commander-in-chief of the southern front during the 1939 invasion of Poland, with Adolf Hitler.
fcit.usf.edu /HOLOCAUST/resource/gallery/Nazi.htm   (477 words)

  
 International Relations resources in Microforms
70 Microcards (MICROCARD K Eichmann) "Transcript of the trial in the case of the Attorney-General of the Government of Israel v.
Adolf, the son of Adolf Karl Eichmann, in the District Court of Jerusalem.
This is an unedited and unrevised transcript of the simultaneous translation and, as such, should not be regarded as stylistically perfect or devoid of linguistic errors." Microcard Editions, 1962.
libweb.uoregon.edu /govdocs/micro/int.htm   (1045 words)

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