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One of the major organizers of the Holocaust, responsible for managing the mass deportation of millions of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps.
Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian Nazi official, SS officer, and convicted war criminal. His connection to Berlin includes the Wannsee Conference, where he gathered information, attended the meeting, and prepared the protocol that became its principal surviving record.
After doing poorly at school, Eichmann briefly worked for his father’s mining company and later became a travelling oil salesman. He joined the Nazi Party and the SS in 1932, then entered the Sicherheitsdienst after returning to Germany in 1933.
Eichmann and his staff organized the deportation of Jews across German-occupied Europe. After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, he oversaw the deportation of 437,000 Jews before the transports were halted that July.
Eichmann attended the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942 and prepared its minutes. The protocol became the principal surviving record of the meeting at which Nazi officials planned the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution.
Captured by US forces after Germany’s defeat, Eichmann escaped detention and avoided recapture before moving to Argentina under false papers in 1950. Israel’s Mossad located and abducted him in 1960. He was convicted in Jerusalem and executed by hanging in 1962.
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He prepared the conference protocol that became the principal surviving record of the meeting.
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