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    Adolf Eichmann - Wikipedia

    Eichmann produced tapes, transcripts, and handwritten notes. The surviving audio recordings became public in 2022. Eichmann confessed that he in fact knew that millions of Jews and others were being killed: "I didn't care about the Jews deported to Auschwitz, whether they lived or died. See more

    Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and one of the major … See more

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    On the advice of family friend and local SS leader Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Eichmann joined the Austrian branch of the Nazi Party on 1 April 1932, member number 889,895. His … See more

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    Within weeks of the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, … See more

    Several Holocaust survivors, including the Jewish Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, dedicated themselves to finding Eichmann and other Nazis. In 1953, Wiesenthal learned from a … See more

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    Otto Adolf Eichmann, the eldest of five children, was born in 1906 to a Calvinist Protestant family in Solingen, Germany. His parents were Adolf Karl Eichmann, a bookkeeper, and … See more

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    At the end of the war, Eichmann was captured by US forces and spent time in several camps for SS officers using forged papers that identified him as Otto Eckmann. He … See more

    Eichmann was taken to a fortified police station at Yagur in Israel, where he spent nine months. The Israelis were unwilling to take him to trial … See more

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    WEBLearn how the Mossad tracked down and kidnapped Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi mastermind of the Holocaust, in Argentina in 1960. Find out how he was tried and hanged in Israel in 1962 for his crimes against humanity.

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    WEBFeb 9, 2010 · Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who organized the "final solution of the Jewish question" and was captured by U.S. troops in Argentina, was condemned to death by an Israeli war crimes tribunal on …

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