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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In Hungary in 1944, Eichmann introduced himself this way: "Do you know who I am? I am a bloodhound!"
Every department was trying to squeeze everything possible out of the Jews, to winkle it out by threatening them with the big bad Eichmann.
They knew me wherever I went. Through the press, the name Eichmann had emerged as a symbol.... In any case, the word Jew ... was irreversibly linked with the word Eichmann. Much more power ... was attributed to me than I actually had.
Eichmann is 34 or 35 years old, a very active, adventurous man. He felt that this act against Jews was necessary and was fully convinced of its necessity and correctness, as I was.
Eichmann was personally a cowardly man, who was at great pains to protect himself from responsibility... He was amoral and completely ice cold in his attitude.
Adolf Eichmann was one of the arrow heads of the Holocaust in Germany during the Second World War.