Capture of Adolf Eichmann

Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann in 1942
Born	Otto Adolf Eichmann (1906-03-19)19 March 1906 Solingen, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died	1 June 1962(1962-06-01) (aged 56) Ramla, Israel
Cause of death	Execution by hanging
Nationality	German
Other names	Ricardo Klement
Occupation	SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel)
Employer	RSHA
Organization	Schutzstaffel
Political party	National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)
Criminal charge	War crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity
Criminal penalty	Death
Spouse(s)	Veronika Liebl (m. 1935)
Children	Klaus Eichmann (born 1936 in Berlin) Horst Adolf Eichmann (born 1940 in Vienna) Dieter Helmut Eichmann (born 1942 in Prague) Ricardo Francisco Eichmann (born 1955 in Buenos Aires)
Parent(s)	Adolf Karl Eichmann Maria (née Schefferling)
Awards	Iron Cross, Second Class War Merit Cross 1st Class with swords War Merit Cross 2nd Class with swords
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Otto Adolf Eichmann (pronounced [ˈɔto ˈaːdɔlf ˈaɪ̯çman]; 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer (general/lieutenant general) Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. In 1960, he was captured in Argentina by the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service. He was found guilty of war crimes in a widely publicised trial in Israel, and was hanged in 1962.

After an unremarkable school career, Eichmann briefly worked for his father's mining company in Austria, where the family had moved in 1914. He worked as a travelling oil salesman beginning in 1927, and joined both the Nazi Party and the SS in 1932. He returned to Germany in 1933, where he joined the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; Security Service); there he was appointed head of the department responsible for Jewish affairs—especially emigration, which the Nazis encouraged through violence and economic pressure. After the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Eichmann and his staff arranged for Jews to be concentrated in ghettos in major cities with the expectation that they would be transported either farther east or overseas. He also drew up plans for a Jewish reservation, first at Nisko in southeast Poland and later in Madagascar, but neither of these plans was ever carried out.