Adolf Eichmann

The Holocaust
Nazi Germany

Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian Nazi Party official and SS officer who helped organize the Holocaust. He attended the Wannsee Conference and managed logistics for the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps across German-occupied Europe. Captured after the war, he escaped to Argentina, where Israeli agents found him in 1960. He was tried in Jerusalem, convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and executed in 1962.

Role: SS officer and Holocaust organizer
Wannsee Conference: Participated in January 1942
Sentence: Executed by hanging in 1962

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Article: Adolf Eichmann (English Wikipedia)
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Illustration: By Author and location unknown. Bettina Stangneth's caption for the image says: "Unknown photographer, undated (1941), AKG Images, 4217270".[3] The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library) website used to attribute the image to Heinrich Hoffmann (1885–1957) ("image: hoff-895; negative: Hoffmann 8841"), a German photographer who was known as Hitler's personal photographer. The library obtained the negative and a copy of the image as part of a collection purchased from Hoffmann's son in 1. Public domain · File page on Wikimedia Commons
Author and location unknown. Bettina Stangneth's caption for the image says: "Unknown photographer, undated (1941), AKG Images, 4217270".[3] The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library) website used to attribute the image to Heinrich Hoffmann (1885–1957) ("image: hoff-895; negative: Hoffmann 8841"), a German photographer who was known as Hitler's personal photographer. The library obtained the negative and a copy of the image as part of a collection purchased from Hoffmann's son in 1993. Following an inquiry from a Wikipedian in 2014, the library checked the negative and confirmed "with certainty" that this is not one of Hoffmann's images. His negatives were made of glass and had identifying numbers etched onto them. The library said they cannot determine the authorship of the Eichmann negative., Immediate source Blic.rs. Also Yad Vashem and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The latter credits DIZ Muenchen GMBH, Sueddeutscher Verlag Bilderdienst. Image ID: 00126367.
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