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8 unusual facts about Adolf Eichmann


Erich Naumann

During November 1941, reports he sent to Adolf Eichmann state that he was responsible for the deaths of 17,256 people in Smolensk.

Ferdinand aus der Fünten

Fünten was initially an employee in the Jewish section of the RSHA under the command of Adolf Eichmann.

Franz Abromeit

From 1942 he was Jewish adviser to Croatia in the Jewish Section (IVB4) of the RSHA with SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann.

Franz Six

Six was called as one of four witnesses by defense attorney Robert Servatius in the 1961 trial in Israel of Adolf Eichmann, and gave his testimony by deposition in West Germany.

Gustav Richter

Gustav Richter (12 November 1913 – c.1982) was an aide to Nazi Adolf Eichmann during World War II.

Hartmann Lauterbacher

Sent to the La Frachette camp near Rome by the Italians, who had declared him an "undesirable foreigner", Lauterbacher still managed to flee a few months later, in December 1950, to Argentina, following the same route Adolf Eichmann took the same year.

Otto-Wilhelm Wandesleben

He worked aside Adolf Eichmann (Jewish Affairs, eviction matters) and Erich Roth (Political Catholicism and Political Protestantism, sects) as one of three speakers from this office group.

Werner Willikens

Kershaw suggests that Adolf Eichmann's rise from minor functionary to a leading role in the SS was built on this principle of working towards the Fuehrer".


1961 in Israel

20 June - Ten weeks into his war crimes trial, the prosecution having rested, Adolf Eichmann took the witness stand in his own defense, but refused to swear on the Bible.

Aunt Anna's

(Eichmann used the escape route via the Alto Adige to Genoa in 1950, by which time knowledge of this escape route was widespread in SS circles - having reached Sterzing, he moved to the Franciscan monastery in the South Tyrol's capital of Bolzano).

Hauptsturmführer

Among them are Josef Mengele, the infamous doctor assigned to Auschwitz; Klaus Barbie, Gestapo Chief of Lyon; Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's assistant; and Amon Göth, who was sentenced to death and hanged for committing mass murder during the liquidations of the ghettos at Tarnów and Krakow, the camp at Szebnie and the Plaszow camp, portrayed in the film Schindler's List.

Hunting Eichmann

Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi is a book by Neal Bascomb about Adolf Eichmann and his escape to Argentina after World War II.

Milton Johns

In the 1986 television series War and Remembrance, Johns took the role of the senior Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann.

Superior orders

The defense of superior orders again arose in the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Israel, as well as the trial of Alfredo Astiz of Argentina, the latter responsible for a large number of disappearances and kidnappings that took place during that country's Dirty War.

The Aryan Couple

Such is Krauzenberg's wealth and power that when he agrees to sign over his property, it is two of the most powerful men in the Nazi regime who announce they will be coming to his house to handle the paperwork – Adolf Eichmann (Steven Mackintosh) and Heinrich Himmler (Danny Webb).

Yehuda Bacon

The drawings show details and sequences of what he saw in the concentration camps and which he already made as a teenager shortly after the liberation as well as his testimony served as evidence in trials against Nazi criminals (including the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem and the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials) and were also used in the litigation against Holocaust denier David Irving, who challenges the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz.

Yossele Schumacher affair

The search was also an object of controversy, and Harel was criticized for his focus on this case at the expense of manhunts for Nazi officials, notably from then Aman director Major General Meir Amit and even from Israeli spy, Peter Malkin (who had caught Adolf Eichmann).


see also

Sassen

Willem Sassen, Dutch Nazi collaborator and journalist who interviewed Adolf Eichmann

The House on Garibaldi Street

Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion approves a Mossad operation to be led by Isser Harel to kidnap Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi mass murderer, in Argentina.