Otto Adolf Eichmann (known as Adolf Eichmann; March 19, 1906 – May 31, 1962) high-ranking Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lt. Colonel). Due to his organisational talents and ideological reliability, he was tasked by Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich to facilitate and manage the logistics of mass deportation to ghettos and death camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. He was captured by Israeli Mossad agents in Argentina, indicted by Israeli court on 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was convicted and executed by hanging.

Early life

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Born in Solingen, Germany, Adolf Eichmann was the son of a moderately successful businessman and industrialist, Adolf Karl Eichmann. In 1914, his family moved to Linz, Austria, and during the First World War, Eichmann's father served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. At the war's conclusion, Eichmann's father returned to the family business in Linz. In 1920, Eichmann's family moved back to Germany.

Eichmann married Vera Liebl on the 21st March 1935. The couple had four sons: Klaus Eichmann, 1936 in Berlin, Horst Adolf Eichmann, 1940 in Vienna, Dieter Helmut Eichmann, 1942 in Prague, and Ricardo Francisco Eichmann, 1955 in Buenos Aires.

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