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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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adolf_Eichmann   (2943 words)

  
 Eichmann in Jerusalem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eichmann stated himself in court that though he was not religious, he had always tried to abide by Kant's categorical imperative (as discussed directly on pp.
She argues that Eichmann had essentially taken the wrong lesson from Kant: Eichmann had not recognized the "Golden Rule" and priniciple of reciprocity implicit in the categorical imperative, but had only understood the concept of one man's actions coinciding with general law.
Eichmann's inability to think for himself was exemplified by his consistent use of "stock phrases and self-invented clichés." This "officialese" (Amtssprache) demonstrated his unrealistic worldview and crippling lack of communincation skills.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem   (762 words)

  
 Penguin Reading Guides | Eichmann in Jerusalem | Hannah Arendt
Critics attributed her coverage of the Adolf Eichmann trial to a host of purposes other than simple reporting, such as exposing the role of the Jewish leadership in the Holocaust and raising larger questions about German guilt and the nature of totalitarianism.
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.
us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/eichmann.html   (1568 words)

  
 20th WCP: Eichmann, the Banality of Evil, and Thinking in Arendt's Thought
Arendt's perception that Eichmann seemed to be a common man, evidenced in his transparent superficiality and mediocrity left her astonished in measuring the unaccounted evil committed by him, that is, organizing the deportation of millions of Jews to the concentration camps.
Eichmann portrayed the factual example of a kind of evil manifestation that was not found in the traditional dimensions.
Eichmann, by the fact that he was not able to exercise the faculty of thinking, could not find any profundity with regard to his deeds.
www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Cont/ContAssy.htm   (4162 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - The Trial and Eichmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
...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...
...In the Eichmann Trial, perhaps out of excessive sensitivity to the coercion of individuals by impersonal forces, what the defendant had not done was allowed to become part of the proceedings, as Hitler had been allowed by the democratic world to talk about not invading Czechoslovakia after he had delivered his ultimatum...
...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...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V32I5P7-1.htm   (6953 words)

  
 Rassinier: The Real Eichmann Trial
Adolf Eichmann was born in March 19th, 1906, at Solingen (and not in Palestine in the German colony of Saron, as Mme.
Ben Gurion wishes to turn the Eichmann trial into another Nuremberg it would be to his advantage to support the Israeli president with an ad hoc tribunal made up of representatives of all the countries who suffered under the yoke of the ex-S.S. colonel.
So it was not Eichmann himself committed for trial but Germany, threatened with having all the leading political figures of her government charged before the universal conscience during the course of this trial.
www.heretical.com /miscella/eichmann.html   (8748 words)

  
 Eichmann, Adolf - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Eichmann promoted the use of gas chambers for the mass extermination of Jews in concentration camps, and he oversaw the maltreatment, deportation, and murder of millions of Jews in World War II.
Justice for Iraq's Saddam: Tale of Adolf Eichmann trial may be instructive.
Adolf EICHMANN in his bulletproof booth, during his trial in Jerusalem.1961.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/E/Eichmann.asp   (357 words)

  
 Adolf Eichmann
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.
www.nizkor.org /hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf   (703 words)

  
 Print Version - The Eichmann Trial
Adolf Eichmann was the man chosen by Hitler to carry out his infamous "Final Solution." It was he who boasted, "I will go to my grave happy that I murdered six million Jews." In spite of this, Eichmann managed to escape after the war and find a safe haven in Argentina.
And Eichmann was brought to trial so that the world might have a clear and indisputable record of the crime of the centuries.
Eichmann, of course, was found guilty and was hanged on May 31, 1962.
www.aish.com /SSI/articleToPrint.asp?PageURL=/holocaust/issues/The_Eichmann_Trial.xml&torahportion=   (519 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Operation Eichmann: The Truth about the Pursuit, Capture and Trial: Books: Zvi Aharoni,Wilhelm Dietl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Operation Eichmann, as the pursuit, capture, and trial of the notorious Nazi official was known, stunned the world.
He tracked Eichmann to Argentina, secured photographs that established his identity, and was a key player in the plot to kidnap the exiled war criminal and bring him to trial.
Eichmann himself was surprisingly careless about his personal security in Buenos Aires even though he knew the Israelis were planning to capture him.
www.amazon.ca /Operation-Eichmann-Pursuit-Capture-Trial/dp/0471193771   (1529 words)

  
 The Capture of Adolf Eichmann
Eichmann was certainly living under an assumed identity, and had friends in and out of the Argentinian government.
One of Eichmann's supposed sons, Nicholas, had gotten involved with an Argentianian Jewish girl, and apparently not knowing she was Jewish, boasted about his father's role in the killing of the Jews of Europe.
Eichmann was then drugged so that his senses would be blurred when brought to the plane.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/eichcap.html   (2915 words)

  
 Eichmann Trial
The trial prompted a new openness in Israel; many Holocaust survivors felt able to share their experiences as the country confronted this traumatic chapter.
After the Wannsee Conference (January 1942), Eichmann coordinated deportations of Jews from Germany and elsewhere in western, southern, and northern Europe to extermination camps (through his representatives Alois Brunner, Theodor Dannecker, Rolf Guenther, and Dieter Wisliceny and others in the Gestapo).
Eichmann was also charged with membership in criminal organizations--the Storm Troopers (SA), Security Service (SD), and Gestapo (all of which had been declared criminal organizations at the 1946 Nuremberg Trial).
www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005179   (363 words)

  
 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   (1902 words)

  
 The Adolf Eichmann Trial
A few days after his capture [Eichmann], Ben Gurion, who was giving speeches in the United States, heard that a certain Konrad turned up in Washington again for a talk with Ike.
Eichmann entrusted it to his best friend - that very bookshop keeper - whom he made his testamentary executor and the true owner of the copyright.
The Eichmann family, familiar with my works, thought that Dr. Servatius, defence counsel for Eichmann, might need a historian's advice and begged him to get in touch with me, just in case; and Dr. Servatius had already thought of that himself.
www.the7thfire.com /new_world_order/zionism/holocaust/adolf_eichmann_trial.htm   (6285 words)

  
 The Banality of Evil from WUJS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
While covering the technical aspects of the trial, Arendt also explored the wider themes inherent in the trial, such as the nature of justice, the behavior of the Jewish leadership during the Nazi R?gime, and, most controversially, the nature of Evil itself.
Eichmann's name is synonymous with fierce brutality, pure evil, terror, and other monstrosities that we associate with the Holocaust and Nazi officials like Eichmann.
Eichmann in Jerusalem is a rare and honest look at the fabric of evil, the veneer of good and the moral high ground that 'right' holds.
www.wujs.org.il /activist/features/articles/eichmanjeru.shtml   (377 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 11 | 1961: Nazi war crimes trial begins
The trial has begun in Israel of the man accused of helping Hitler in his plan to exterminate the Jews.
In December 1961 Adolf Eichmann was found guilty on all charges and sentenced to death.
Eichmann's case was the highest profile Nazi trial since 1946 when 12 high-ranking Nazis were sentenced to death at Nuremberg in Germany.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/11/newsid_2476000/2476225.stm   (416 words)

  
 Crime and Punishment: The Trial of Eichmann
The defendant is not the true subject of "The Trial of Adolf Eichmann." Fascinating though he may be as a case study of obsession or bureaucracy or what Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil," his significance fades beside the enormity of the Holocaust.
The camera moves from the witness box to the rapt audience, mostly Israelis who find it hard to listen to the unsparing details of their families' fates but are unable to turn away; occasionally there is an outburst from someone who can't bear any more.
When, in the climactic days of the trial, Eichmann takes the stand, he is a grim joke.
www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/Holocaust/eichmann-tv.html   (657 words)

  
 Remembering the Eichmann Trial, main page
Bigart covered important moments in history from 1927 until 1972, including World War II in Europe and the Pacific, Korea, Vietnam, and the Eichmann trial.
The choice of Bigart as chief correspondent for the Times did much to remove the trial from its status as an event that primarily concerned Jews and to incorporate it, and the Holocaust, into the broader narrative of American history.
Here was the very face of American history, sent to Jerusalem to relay the Eichmann trial to the United States public.
www.dartmouth.edu /~wgst60/projects/eichmann/Bigart.htm   (357 words)

  
 Eichmann trial - The District Court Sessions
We would accordingly suggest that the Honourable Court should request the Italian Minister of Justice to give instructions for the interrogation of this witness by representatives of the parties.
We did not know exactly what his duties were, but we thought he was Eichmann's bodyguard.
First of all, the engineer in charge of us told us that one of the Gestapo commanders from Budapest, whose name was Adolf Eichmann, lived there, and Slawik also mentioned his name.
www.vex.net /~nizkor/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/Sessions/Session-054-01.html   (1388 words)

  
 Holocaust began with the Eichmann Trial
The holocaust propaganda campaign was launched in 1961 with the trial of Adolph Eichmann.
Eichmann was in charge of the deportation of Jews out of Europe - to the East.
The trial in Israel of Adolf Eichmann in the spring and summer of '61 was filmed, under an exclusive arrangement with the Israeli government, by Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp.
www.biblebelievers.org.au /eichmann.htm   (1225 words)

  
 The Eichmann Trial
On May 23, 1960, Adolf Eichmann, one of the main organizers of the Nazi extermination program during World War II, was brought to Israel to stand trial.
In the trial, which opened in April 1961, Eichmann was found guilty of crimes against humanity and the Jewish people, and was sentenced to death.
After the rejection of his appeal to the Supreme Court, he was hanged on May 30, 1962.
w3.kfar-olami.org.il /reed/resources/landmark/holocaust/TRIAL.htm   (85 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Operation Eichmann: The Truth about the Pursuit, Capture and Trial: Books: Zvi Aharoni,Wilhelm Dietl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
Vivid details that had to be attended to both prior to and after the capture of the Nazi criminal are provided to appreciate the difficulty in carrying out this complicated undertaking.
Eichmann had a number of sons, the last of which, Richardo, was a generation younger than his brothers who really has no recollection of his father.
www.amazon.com /Operation-Eichmann-Pursuit-Capture-Trial/dp/0471193771   (2020 words)

  
 Adolf Eichmann Table of Contents
Eichmann Confesses to Being a Communist (6/05/61) [pdf]
Eichmann Informs the Jews on Deportations from Austria and on the Theresienstadt Ghetto
Vera Eichmann Attempts to Arrange for Husband to be Deported to Argentina (2/27/62) [pdf]
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/Eichmanntoc.html   (876 words)

  
 Eichmann trial: The complete transcripts
Volumes VII and VIII, the Facsimile of Eichmann's statement in German to the Israeli Police, and Volume IX, Microfiche copies of the documents submitted at the trial, are not included within the Nizkor collection.
Nizkor would like to thank The Trust for the Publication of the Proceedings of the Eichmann Trial for granting permission to place these files on the Internet, and acknowledge the co-operation of Rubin Mass Ltd. in obtaining them.
Publisher Rubin Mass Ltd. has released "The Trial of Adolf Eichmann," in 9 volumes.
www.nizkor.org /hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts   (159 words)

  
 Eichmann trial: The Judgment
"At the trial of any individual member of any group or organization the Tribunal may declare (in connexion with any act of which the individual may be convicted) that the group or organization of which the individual was a member was a criminal organization."
"In cases where a group or organization is declared criminal by the Tribunal, the competent national authority of any signatory shall have the right to bring individuals to trial for membership therein before national, military or occupation courts.
In any such case the criminal nature of the group or organization is considered proved and shall not be questioned."
www.vex.net /~nizkor/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/Judgment/Judgment-003.html   (1621 words)

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