Adolf Eichmann (1906 – 1962) was a German-Austrian Obersturmbannführer in the Schutzstaffel (SS), the ‘Protection Squadron’ paramilitary organisation in Nazi Germany, and one of the organisers of the Holocaust. He was tasked with the logistics for the mass deportation of millions of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. Eichmann escaped from post-war Germany and went into hiding in Argentina. In 1960, Israel’s secret service, The Mossad, sent an eight-man team to find him. Eichmann was captured on 11 May 1960 and subsequently found guilty of war crimes in Jerusalem. He was executed by hanging in 1962....
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