On , an Israeli court in Jerusalem sentenced Adolf Eichmann to death for crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity.
Otto Adolf Eichmann[a] (/ ˈaɪkmən / EYEKH-mən; [1] German pronunciation: [ˈʔɔto ˈʔaːdɔlf ˈʔaɪçman] ⓘ; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian [2] official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.
Adolf Eichmann was a German high official who was hanged by the State of Israel for his part in the Holocaust, the Nazi extermination of Jews during World War II.
Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), a lieutenant-colonel in the Nazi SS, was responsible for organising the transportation of Jewish people and other victims of Nazism...
Prominent among these " Eichmann-Männer " ("Eichmann's men") were his deputy Rolf Günther, Alois Brunner, Theodor Dannecker, and Dieter Wisliceny. In 1942, Eichmann and his henchmen organized the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, the Netherlands, France, and Belgium.
Adolf Eichmann was an Austrian-born SS officer principally responsible for coordinating the Nazi German implementation of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.
The Eichmann trial also served as a catalyst for promoting other important trials of German Nazis. The most significant of these was the trial of the Auschwitz criminals, launched in 1963 in Frankfurt am Main.
Article about Operation Finale in which the Mossad captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and brought him to stand trial in Israel.
The Capture of Nazi Criminal Adolf Eichmann – Operation Finale – and ...
Eichmann returns to Hungary to resume deportations. Eichmann starts negotiations with the Hungarian authorities for the deportation of 50,000 Jews to be marched into Germany on foot due to destruction of railways by allied bombing.