Adolf Eichmann
Noun
Meaning
Austrian who became the Nazi official who administered the concentration camps where millions of Jews were murdered during World War II (1906-1962)
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Adolf Eichmann was one of the arrow heads of the Holocaust in Germany during the Second World War.
Adolf Eichmann headed the Gestapo's Office of Resettlement and then its Office of Jewish Affairs (Referat IV B4 or Sub-Department IV, Section B4).
Among some of the more notable SS criminals he brought before the law were Adolf Eichmann, Franz Stengl, Erich Rajakowitsch, Hermine Braunsteiner and Franz Murer, the "Butcher of Wilno."
Adolf Eichmann was captured in the northern area of Buenos Aires in 1960, and another war criminal, Erich Priebke, also lived there.
Defendant Adolf Eichmann listening as the court declares him guilty on all counts at his war crimes trial in Jerusalem in 1961.
Rachel Bloom tells the story of how the Mossad captured Adolf Eichmann, who was one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.